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 626
vulgar ftare at their gigantic and clumfy grandeur. Gibbs, like Van-brugh, had no averfion to ponderofity, but, not being endued with much in-vention, was only regularly heavy. His praife was fidelity to rules j his fail-ing, want of grace. He was born at Aberdeen in 1683,and ftudied his art in… … in the REIGN of GEORGE I. 433 defign of St. Martins church, which was finifhed in five years, and cofl: thirty-two thoufand pounds. His likewife was St. Marys in the Strand, one of thefifty new churches; a monument of the piety more than of the tafte of the na-tion. The new church at Derby was…
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