more so with regard to their original purpose, but losing
their Every master mason, every plasterer, every carpenter who knows how to 'porticos are when properly applied, their constant recurrence on a paltry scale a scale—from some of the remains of Greece, then the whole building is pom.
look or to shut his eyes to the risk of infection, and to the delays they do at the Roman and Italian. Even supposing the Italian masters bad at an early period obtained access to the remains of Greece, whatever might have However, as we said some months ago, the experiment ought to temple and other Grecian structures, it is impossible to imagine they could have be tried ; and, if punctually practicable, continued for some time overlooked the admirable scope afforded by the combinations of the arch mat even at a loss. But although three years have now elapsed since vault, and the practice of placing one order above another ; nor could their a Committee of the House of Commons recommended the attempt, acquaintance with the 'Grecian have in the least facilitated the improvement and although the mercantile community both in England and and application of the modern cupola, the boast of the Italian schuol, the noblest offspring of the arch, and the most glorious addition which since the India are anxiously moving in the matter, nothing, we believe, suppression of the pure Grecian style has been made to architecture. More. has been done by Government, except to spend some 20,0001. on a over, it cannot be too often repeated, that the superiority of the Grecian can. foolish expedition to the Euphrates. How long will it be before sists, not exclusively in the mere proportions of the individual orders and details, Whig rulers learn practical wisdom, or act with common sense? but in the general composition and collocation of the entire structure, "pre- Here is a matter which all parties must support,or at least refrain seining to the eye one unbloken whole, complete on every side, and graceful in all its parts." When on a small scale, or combined in portions, it is decidedly
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