The works of Horatio Walpole, earl of Orford (1798)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, Vertue, George, 1684-1756, Berry, Mary, 1763-1852, Edwards, James, 1757-1816, G. G. and J. Robinson (Paternoster Row, London, England) · London : Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson ... and J. Edwards ... · leaf 568
willthe defign and details are defective, the merit of venture to guefs that their ruins will have fargrandeur remains with the perfon who is at the greater efFecl, not only from their maffive frag-expence of the fabric, not with the architect who ments, but from the additional piles which… … S? John Vanbrxtgh. in the REIGN of QUEEN ANNE. 395 The ftyle of no age, no country, appears in his works; he broke through allrule, and compenfated for it by no imagination. He feeras to have hollowedquarries rather than to have built houfes ; and mould his edifices, as theyfeem formed to do,…
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