ler’s trick, is hung up in mid air. The or- namental work is a dull manufacture ; the coarse jewellery merely serves to give a sense of costliness and of extrava- gant, unlimited expense, and the small bantam angels that, below the cross, are clawing upwards to the sky, supply the fashionable,… … **"— • . ~--E* an artist to design and make the monu- a master-workman. men^ but only a distinguished draughts- man to compose it in an imitative way. Were a true architect or master to produce a work of inspiration the superior world would be astonished and perplexed. The idea of any good thing…
Architecture
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