...structure, which I would strictly adhere to throughout the whole intention : to deviate from the old form would be to run into a disagreeable mixture,...a good taste could relish. I have varied a little in giving twelve sides to the spire instead of eight, for reasons to be discerned upon the model. The...

...with reference to this scheme, ' which will not be very expensive, but light, and still in the Gothic form, and of a style with the rest of the structure,...mixture, which no person of a good taste could relish.' How far Sir Christopher maintained this resolution—or rather, let us say, how far he understood the...

...GREAT FIRE. which I would strictly adhere to throughout the whole intention : to deviate from the wbolu form would be to run into a disagreeable mixture, which no person of taste could relish.' It is conceded thnt Wren made n design for the whole front, but he could not have...

...structure, which I would strictly adhere to, throughout the whole intention : to deviate from the old Form would be to run into a disagreeable mixture which...discerned upon the Model. ' The Angles of Pyramids in the Gothick Architecture were usually enriched with the Flower the Botanists call the Calceolus, which...

...structure, which I would strictly adhere to, throughout the whole intention : to deviate from the old Form would be to run into a disagreeable mixture which...discerned upon the Model. ' The Angles of Pyramids in the Gothick Architecture were usually enriched with the Flower the Botanists call the Calceolus, which...

...structure, which I would strictly adhere to throughout the whole intention. To deviate from the old form would be to run into a disagreeable mixture,...spire instead of eight, for reasons to be discerned in the model. The angles of pyramids in the Gothic architecture were usually enriched with the flower...

...have built with its bones except when he saw, as at Westminster Abbey, that "to deviate from the old form would be to run into a disagreeable mixture which no person of taste could relish"; and even Old St. Paul's did not seem to him a case like this, perhaps because...

...have built with its bones except when he saw, as at Westminster Abbey, that "to deviate from the old form would be to run into a disagreeable mixture which no person of taste could relish " ; and even Old St. Paul's did not seem to him a case like this, perhaps because...

...Structure, which I would strictly adhere to, throughout the whole Intention: to deviate from the old Form would be to run into a disagreeable Mixture : which no Person of a good Taste could relish." He went on to talk of the north window, then stopped with plaster to prevent its total ruin, and said...

...strictly adhere to, tbroughout the whole Imemion ; to deviate from the Old Form, would be to run imo a disagreeable Mixture, which no Person of a good Taste could relish.'" His own designs for Westminster Abbey conform to this principle.'* Wren adopts here, with unusual clarity,...