The course and current of architecture; being an historical account of the origin, successive and simultaneous development, relations, periods, and characteristics of its various known styles (1863)
80 THE COURSE AND CURRENT POINTED GOTHIC. … Gothic a sentiment of Oriental elegance, and impart the pointed arch. The increased measure of the soaring spirit, the principal change to which that feature led, can scarcely be attributed to the agency of a style which had none of its own, and wherein the pointed arch was an isolated and barren…
Architecture -- History
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