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which the bulk of the houses was handled at this time, there 

 was much ingenuity bestowed upon the detail and ornament. 

 The brothers Adam, who were busy during the last quarter of 

 the eighteenth century, have given their name to a particular 

 style of decoration, marked by much delicacy and refinement, 

 but they did nothing of first-rate importance in architecture 



FIG. ii. Gwydyr House, Whitehall, London, 1796. 



itself, nothing that set men building in a fresh way. After them 

 came the Greek influence, which affected a number of designers. 

 The ambitions of Napoleon absorbed the attention of nearly the 

 whole of Europe, but Greece was at that time exciting a 

 considerable amount of interest, which was fostered to a certain 

 extent by the poetry of Byron. But although he hymned the 

 Isles of Greece and burning Sappho, but little of her fire found 



