In observance of this resolution, I take leave ; first, to declare, I never designed a balustrade. Persons of little ^skill in architecture did expect, I believe, to see something they had been used to in Gothic structures ; and ladies think nothing well... Sir Christopher Wren - Page 284by Lena Milman - 1908 - 367 pagesFull view - About this book
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...architecture did expect,, L believe, to see something they had been used to in Gothic structures ; and ladies think nothing well without an edging. I...parts, such as pilasters ; for a continued range of balusters cannot be proposed to stand alone against high winds : they would be liable to be tipped... | |
| Thomas Hosmer Shepherd - 1827 - 696 pages
...in architecture did expect, I believe, to see something they had been used to in Gothic structures ; and ladies think nothing well without an edging. I...parts, such as pilasters ; for a continued range of balusters cannot be proposed to stand alone against high winds ; they would be liable to be tipped... | |
| Allan Cunningham - 1831 - 386 pages
...skill in architecture did expect, I believe, to see something that had been used in Gothic structures, and ladies think nothing well without an edging. I...parts, such as pilasters : for a continued range of balusters cannot be supposed to stand alone against high winds — they would be liable to be tipped... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...in architecture did expect, I believe, to see something they had been used td in Gothic structures ; and ladies think nothing well without an edging. I...complied with the vulgar taste, but I suspended for reasons following : " A balustrade is supposed a sort of plinth over the upper colonnade, which may... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 606 pages
...architecture did expect, I believe, to see sometliing they had been used to in Gothic structures ; and ladies think nothing well without an edging. I...complied with the vulgar taste, but I suspended for reasons following : " A balustrade is supposed a sort of plinth over the upper colonnade, which may... | |
| Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...in architecture did expect, I believe, to see something they had been used to in Gothic structures ; and ladies think nothing well without an edging. I...complied with the vulgar taste, but I suspended for reasons following : " A balustrade is supposed a sort of plinth over the upper colonnade, which maybe... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...to see something they had been used to in Gothic structures ; and ladies think nothing well vnthout an edging. I should gladly have complied with the vulgar taste, but I suspended for reasons following : " A balustrade is supposed a sort of plinth over the upper colonnade, which may... | |
| Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 pages
...in architecture did expect, I believe, to see something they had been used to in Gothic structures, and ladies think nothing well without an edging. I...complied with the vulgar taste, but I suspended for the following reasons," &c. He concludes with the emphatic declaration — "My opinion therefore is, to... | |
| Charles Knight - 1851 - 874 pages
...architecture did expect, I believe, to see something they had been used to in Gothic structures, and ladiet think nothing well without an edging, I should gladly...complied with the vulgar taste, but I suspended for the following reasons," &c. He concludes with the emphatic declaration — "My opinion therefore is, to... | |
| Charles Knight - 1851 - 882 pages
...something they had been used to in Gothic structures, and ladies think nothing Mtll without an sdging. I should gladly have complied with the vulgar taste, but I suspended for the following reasons," &c. He concludes with the emphatic declaration — " My opinion therefore is, to... | |
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