Shaw's Civil architecture; being a complete theoretical and practical system of building, containing the fundamental principles of the art . GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE, 141 gelo, and Wren were trammelled by the rules andproportions of an order, and a Roman sternnesscharacterizes each pile. Li these is seen, it is true,the great victory that science and skill have won overdisorder and ignorance, but in Gloucester and Win-chester the very essence of art and ideality. Theperfect columniations and nicely-arranged entabla-tures of the former speak to us, it is true, with a bold-ness that well becom
Shaw's Civil architecture; being a complete theoretical and practical system of building, containing the fundamental principles of the art . GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE, 141 gelo, and Wren were trammelled by the rules andproportions of an order, and a Roman sternnesscharacterizes each pile. Li these is seen, it is true,the great victory that science and skill have won overdisorder and ignorance, but in Gloucester and Win-chester the very essence of art and ideality. Theperfect columniations and nicely-arranged entabla-tures of the former speak to us, it is true, with a bold-ness that well becomes the Roman; but the flowingtracery and lofty arches of the latter breathe an airof poctiy: while the gTcat domes of the one fill themind with majesty and awe, the towering spires ofthe others address their solemn eloquence to the would not underrate the talent which producedthe great realities we place in contrast; we give themthe glory which a matured science and a ripe skillhave hung around them ; but we claim for the othersthat each conception is distinctly identified with thetime which gave it bu-th, and that they were the out-
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