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" 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... "
The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects - Página 231
por Allan Cunningham - 1831
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The British Critic: A New Review, Volumen20

William Beloe, Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, William Rowe Lyall, Robert Nares - 1823 - 700 páginas
...Persons of little skill in architecture did expect,, L believe, to see something they had been used to in Gothic structures ; and ladies think nothing well...pilasters ; for a continued range of balusters cannot be proposed to stand alone against high winds : they would be liable to be tipped down in a row if there...
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Metropolitan Improvements; Or, London in the Nineteenth Century: Being a ...

Thomas Hosmer Shepherd - 1827 - 696 páginas
...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...pilasters ; for a continued range of balusters cannot be proposed to stand alone against high winds ; they would be liable to be tipped down in a row if there...
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Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler

Lives - 1833 - 588 páginas
...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...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...
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Lives of Eminent Persons

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 606 páginas
...Persons of little skill in architecture did expect, I believe, to see sometliing they had been used to in Gothic structures ; and ladies think nothing well...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...
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Lives of Eminent Persons: Consisting of Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Mahomet ...

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 páginas
...Persons of little skill in architecture did expect, I believe, to see something they had been used td in Gothic structures ; and ladies think nothing well...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...
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Lives of Eminent Persons

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 páginas
...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...
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London, Volúmenes1-2

Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 páginas
...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...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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Knight's Cyclopædia of London, 1851

Charles Knight - 1851 - 874 páginas
...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...
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Knight's Cyclopædia of London, 1851

Charles Knight - 1851 - 882 páginas
...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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Notes and Queries

1863 - 660 páginas
...declare I never designed a balustrade. Ladies think nothing well without an edging. I should have gladly complied with the vulgar taste, but I suspended for the reasons following." Are these merely general remarks, or are they pointed at any person in particular ? The tone of the...
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