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ON TASTE IN ORNAMENTAL DESIGN. 



Paet II. 



as if it had been made at different times, and consisted of 

 several parts put together to compose it. A portico projecting 

 beyond the centre of a long front may be said to have this 

 defect if its cornice is not made to correspond with that of the 

 adjacent walls ; and instances of this are sometimes met with 

 even in buildings of great pretensions, as in the Grlyptothek of 

 Munich, where the portico has the effect of being thrust out 

 from the interior court through the once continous line of the 

 front, whose cornice is forced to abut against its sides. In 

 like manner, the portico of the Pantheon at Kome shows the 

 utmost disregard for the correspondence of its entablature 

 with any lines on the body of the building. 



112. [The mean character, and affected simplicity, of the 



(58.) (59.) 



Fig. 1 



Fig. 2. 



riding-school, and undecorated meeting-house, windows, have 

 likewise found favour among some architects in all countries ; 



as well as broken pediments, often even with round in lieu of 

 triangular summits : copied from works of a debased era;] and 



