The antiquities of England and Wales . ements in building, which, at this time, were growingmore and more into efteem. Thus alfo Bilhop Hall, who wroteabout the fame time j viz. 1598 : There findeft thou fome {lately Doricke neat lonicke work. But thefe ornaments were often abfurdly introduced into the oldGothic flyle : as in the magnificent portico of the fchools at Ox-ford, erected about the year 1613 ; where the builder, in a Gothicedifice, has afFe6ledly difplayed his univerfal ikill in the modernarchite6lure, by giving us all the five orders together. However,moft of the great bu
The antiquities of England and Wales . ements in building, which, at this time, were growingmore and more into efteem. Thus alfo Bilhop Hall, who wroteabout the fame time j viz. 1598 : There findeft thou fome {lately Doricke neat lonicke work. But thefe ornaments were often abfurdly introduced into the oldGothic flyle : as in the magnificent portico of the fchools at Ox-ford, erected about the year 1613 ; where the builder, in a Gothicedifice, has afFe6ledly difplayed his univerfal ikill in the modernarchite6lure, by giving us all the five orders together. However,moft of the great buildings of Queen Elizabeths reign, have aflyle peculiar to themfelves both in form and finifliing ; where,though much of the old Gothic is retained, and great part of thenew tafte is adopted, yet neither predominates; while both, thusdiftinclly blended, compofe a fantailic fpecies, hardly reducible toany clafs or name. One of its chara^leriftics is the afFeclationof large and lofty windows; where, fays Bacon, you i\\a\l have fometimes. rg^n .^^c^fcga (inL r<i/u^it/III //leCW (V/ii/r/i a/ JS/f.
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