The science of taste: being a treatise on its principles (1879)
G. L · London, E. Stanford · leaf 60
42 THE SCIENCE OF TASTE. But there are reasons for this. Firstly, to ensure apparent stability by making the gate more massive at the swing than at the close ; and secondly, to obtain that form in the aperture above which is not only in itself more beautiful than the usual crescent or semi- circle,… … GATE CURVES. In the preceding diagrams (Fig. 21) the gate at the entrance to Constitution Hill is represented by B ; that of the Marble Arch by 0 ; and the shape which might more effectively be substituted, by D. When there is no archway over the gate it ought properly to be raised in the middle to…
Aesthetics
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