The Quarterly Review, Volume 69William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1841 - English literature |
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Page 119
... style . It is not enough for us to take one prominent feature , such as the pointed arch , and to denominate any building where it occurs Gothic , or by what other name we choose to distinguish that style . A style is a system of parts ...
... style . It is not enough for us to take one prominent feature , such as the pointed arch , and to denominate any building where it occurs Gothic , or by what other name we choose to distinguish that style . A style is a system of parts ...
Page 124
... style . Five styles may be enumerated as remarkably distinguished from each other in their characteristic forms - the Saracenic , the Chinese , the Egyp- tian , the Greek , and the so - called Gothic . There is none perhaps which is not ...
... style . Five styles may be enumerated as remarkably distinguished from each other in their characteristic forms - the Saracenic , the Chinese , the Egyp- tian , the Greek , and the so - called Gothic . There is none perhaps which is not ...
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... style an epithet ? A pleasing style . ' Is pleasure nothing ? Is the power of giving pleasure even to Mr. Wakley nothing ? But the true puzzle is why , since pleasure is such a nothing — since the value of a book is wholly irrespective ...
... style an epithet ? A pleasing style . ' Is pleasure nothing ? Is the power of giving pleasure even to Mr. Wakley nothing ? But the true puzzle is why , since pleasure is such a nothing — since the value of a book is wholly irrespective ...
Contents
Collection des Mémoires relatifs à lHistoire de France | 3 |
Objections to and Remarks upon Mr Sergeant Tal | 7 |
Incidents of Travel in Central America Chiapas | 52 |
Copyright | |
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