 | Early English newspapers - 1762 - 686 pages
...Grecian rules, he finds nothing but deformity ; but that the Gothic architecture has its own rules bv which, when it comes to be examined,, it is feen to have its merit, and that the fame obfenratiôn holds of Gothic and Grecian poetry : If you brine; them together again... | |
 | Books - 1763 - 556 pages
...introduces what he fays upon this fubjeft with obferving, that when an Architect examines a Gothic ftruiture by Grecian rules, he finds nothing but deformity....own rules, by which, when it comes to be examined, jt is feen to have its merit, as well as the Grecian. The qucftion is not, which of the two is conducted... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Chivalry - 1776 - 358 pages
...a Gothic ftructure by Grecian rules, he finds nothing but deformity. But the Gothic archite«5lure has its own rules, by which when it comes to be examined,...feen to have its merit, as well as the. Grecian. The cjueftjop is not, which of the two is conducted in the fimpleft or trueft tafte : but, whether there... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 448 pages
...architect examines a Gothick ftrufture by Grecian rules, he finds nothing but deformity. But the Gothick architecture has its own rules, by which, when it comes to be examined, it is feen to to have its merit, as well as the Grecian. The queftion is not, which of the two is conducted in the... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 452 pages
...architect examines a Gothick iiruclure by Grecian rules, he finds nothing but deformity. But the Gothick architecture has its own rules, by which, when it comes to be examined, it is feen to to have its merit, as well as the Grecian. The queftion is not, which of the two is conducted in the... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 408 pages
...with your leave, to try my hand on this curious subject. When an architect examines a Gothic structure by Grecian rules, he finds nothing but deformity....rules, by which when it comes to be examined, it is seen to have its merit, as well as the Grecian. The question is not, which of the two is conducted... | |
 | Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 456 pages
...with your leave, to try my hand on this curious subject. When an architect examines a Gothic structure by Grecian rules, he finds nothing but deformity....rules, by which when it comes to be examined, it is seen to have its merit, as well as the Grecian. The question is not, which of the two is conducted... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1898 - 496 pages
...design, a merit which even the Wartons had denied it. ("When an architect examines a Gothic structure by Grecian rules he finds nothing but deformity. But...rules by which, when it comes to be examined, it is seen to have its merit, as well as the Grecian." The essayist complains that the Gothic fables fell... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1899 - 480 pages
...merit which even the Wartons had denied it. "When an architect examines a Gothic structure byGrecian rules he finds nothing but deformity. But the Gothic...rules by which, when it comes to be examined, it is seen to have its merit, as well as the Grecian." The essayist complains that the Gothic fables fell... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Chivalry - 1911 - 190 pages
...ideal which the poet has set before himself, since ' when an architect examines a Gothic structure by Grecian rules, he finds nothing but deformity. But the Gothic architecture has it's own rules, by which, when it comes to be examined, it is seen to have it's merit, as well as the... | |
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When an architect examines a Gothic structure by Grecian rules, he finds nothing but deformity. But the Gothic architecture has its own rules, by which when it comes to be examined, it is seen to have its merit, as well as the Grecian. 
