The science of taste: being a treatise on its principles (1879)
G. L · London, E. Stanford · leaf 50
THE SCIENCE OF TASTE. 32 and not by convex lines. It is as absurd to engraft a balcony upon the main edifice by convex supports as it would be to curve the arches of a bridge downwards instead of upwards (Fig. 9). It cannot, at all events, be pretended that an oriel window is of Italian origin.… … CONVEX AND CONCAVE LINES. mind is satisfied at a glance with the stability of the thing ; it at once commends itself as an integral portion of the edifice ; it does not seem to have been subse- quently put on, or to be in any manner an afterthought. Now turn to that recently erected " noble…
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