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size of the houses, we have a right to expect some acknow- 

 ledgement of the influence, and some obedience to the laws, of 

 the beautiful. But it is the fault, in a greater or less degree, 

 of many other streets, and arises from the predominence in 

 point of wealth, of men who consider the beautiful incom- 

 patible with the useful, and have no idea of the moral agency 

 of art. On such a street, as far as all sesthetical qualities are 

 concerned, those of London of the fourteenth century might 

 look proudly down ! " 



He then entered upon the subject of the picturesque, as 

 regards the forms of houses individually, and observing that, 

 though the pictorial is independent of the styles, for our 

 present ideas of it, we are in some measure indebted to the 

 various changes undergone by the latter, went on to trace in 

 their history what he considered the development and im- 

 provement of picturesque design. He characterized the Roman 

 architecture as being, though inferior in purity and less correct 

 in expression than the Greek, superior to it in richness, 

 variety, and magnificence ; but affirmed that it is the moderns — 

 in the persons of Brunelleschi, Bramante, Palladio, M. Angelo 

 and Wren — who have produced the grandest combinationsand 

 most striking effects. 



He noticed the great impulse given to the picturesque 

 by the introduction of a new principle into architecture in 

 Europe — the vertical, contained in the gothic ; and the im- 

 petus to the struggle for decoration which that style involved, 

 arising out of the inferiority of sandstone to marble, in point 

 of beauty ; and after some farther remarks, descriptive of its 

 character, its capabilities of expression, and other pictorial 

 qualities, and the peculiarities of the various phases it assumed 

 in England, he affirmed that our old English or Tudor manor . 

 houses and cottages, with their bay and oriel windows, tur- 

 retted and pinnacled gables, niches, ornamental chimney-shafts, 

 embattled porches, and parapets, are the buildings which, in 

 their forms, beyond any other, harmonize with those of nature. 



