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a modern or false Gothic only which can be adapted 

 to so small a building as a keeper's lodge, a reposoir, or 

 a pavilion. There may be some force in this objection, 

 but there is always so much picturesque effect in the 

 small fragments of those great piles that, without re- 

 presenting them as ruins, it is surely allowable to copy 

 them for the purposes of ornament : and with respect 

 to the mixture of different styles in Gothic edifices, 

 I think there is no incongruity, provided the same 

 character of perpendicular architecture be studiously 

 retained ; because there is hardly a cathedral in England 

 in which such mixture may not be observed : and while 

 the antiquary only can discover the Saxon and Norman 

 styles from the Gothic of later date, the eye of taste 

 will never be offended, except by the occasional intro- 

 duction of some Grecian or Roman ornaments. 



Wembly. The characters of Grecian and Gothic 

 architecture are better distinguished by an attention to 

 their general effects than to the minute parts peculiar 

 to each. It is in architecture as in painting, beauty 

 depends on light and shade, and these are caused by 

 the openings or projections in the surface : if these tend 

 to produce horizontal lines, the building must be deemed 

 Grecian, however whimsically the doors or windows 

 may be constructed ; if, on the contrary, the shadows 

 give a prevalence of perpendicular lines, the general 

 character of the building will be Gothic; and this is 

 evident from the large houses built in Queen Eliza- 

 beth's reign, where Grecian columns are introduced ; 

 nevertheless, we always consider them as Gothic build- 

 ings. 



In Grecian architecture, we expect large cornices, 

 windows ranged perfectly on the same line, and that 

 line often more strongly marked by a horizontal fascia ; 



