containing three different characters of Elevations, supposing 



i 



made applicable to a house of moderate 



not exceed 



ing a front of sixty feet, consisting of three stories, with five 

 windows in a line. This is first represented quite plain, as at A, 





and afterwards with the surface broken by horizontal lines, as 

 at B, and by vertical or perpendicular lines, as at C. 



W 



may 



observe, that without introducing any order of columns, or 

 any pointed arches, the eye seems at once to class the former 

 with the Grecian, and the latter with the Gothic character: an 



I his is the consequence merely of the contrasted horizontal and 

 perpendicular lines. 



Let us now proceed one step farther 



we must supp 



th 



e 



same building to be taken from the hands of 



th 



house 



e mere joiner 



penter, and committed to the architect to be 



finished, either in the Grecian or the Gothic styl 



For the form 



recourse is had to th 



e 



best 



specimens an 



proportions of columns, pilasters, entablatures, pediments 



&c 



represented in books of architecture 

 ancient fragments in Greece or Italy 



all 



e to tempi 



or 



public 



dific 



copied from remains of 

 but, unfortunately, these 



and consequently, to 



modern sash win 



make the dwelling habitable in this climat 



dows m„s, he added to these sacred forms of remote antiquity. 

 Ihus some Grecian or Roman temple is surprised to find itself 

 transported from the banks of the Ilissus 



shores of t he Thames, or 



nanf sheet of water. 



the Tib 



to th 



to the tame margin of a modern stag 



If th 



e 



o 



thi 



c character be preferred 



the architect must 





