wever abruptly and ir-regularly the lines of the walls and roofs may cross each other, yeteach break which decay occasions in them at once increases both theirirregularity and their abruptness. QQueen Marys Chapel at Seton, in East Lothian, already noticedin page 167, affords a beautiful specimen… … Of all ruins, those of the ancient Greek and Roman buildings are onmany accounts the most interesting;—in no other buildings are therival qualities of grandeur and beauty so happily united, and to thatunion is added the prejudice in favour of their high antiquity, and oftheir being the productions…
Landscape gardening · Aesthetics
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