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... remains , more especially , it , through the aid of its architectural draughtsman , John Carter , laid the foundations of a more accurate acquaintance with the monuments of our ancient English architecture . Honest John Carter himself ...
... remains , more especially , it , through the aid of its architectural draughtsman , John Carter , laid the foundations of a more accurate acquaintance with the monuments of our ancient English architecture . Honest John Carter himself ...
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... remains ; then by the elder Pugin , in his more purely scientific illustrations ; by Wild , again , and others of the picturesque school ; and up to the present day by numerous miscellaneous illustrators of Gothic architecture , as well ...
... remains ; then by the elder Pugin , in his more purely scientific illustrations ; by Wild , again , and others of the picturesque school ; and up to the present day by numerous miscellaneous illustrators of Gothic architecture , as well ...
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... remains ; sometimes busy ourselves in preserving these . This revival of purely Christian artistic feeling , in its relation to architecture , has found in our own , as in other countries , a distinct and especially noteworthy theoretic ...
... remains ; sometimes busy ourselves in preserving these . This revival of purely Christian artistic feeling , in its relation to architecture , has found in our own , as in other countries , a distinct and especially noteworthy theoretic ...
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... remains yet undeveloped . But very partial gleamings of such have been arrived at . Innumerable have been the essays , elementary views , Puseyistical tales , & c . , put forth of late years on the matter . At the commencement of the ...
... remains yet undeveloped . But very partial gleamings of such have been arrived at . Innumerable have been the essays , elementary views , Puseyistical tales , & c . , put forth of late years on the matter . At the commencement of the ...
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... to receive it . When an inevitable restoration of an ancient fabric is about to be commenced , it yet remains very much a matter of chance what kind of an one it may prove - THE LITERATURE OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE . 41.
... to receive it . When an inevitable restoration of an ancient fabric is about to be commenced , it yet remains very much a matter of chance what kind of an one it may prove - THE LITERATURE OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE . 41.
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