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avail itself of modern comforts and con- 

 venience. ' 



To preserve any dea:ree of unity in a t^^ 



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place, the character of the house should of one 



^ Character. 



prevail in all such buildings as are very 

 conspicuous, or intended as ornaments 

 to the general scenery; such as lodges, 

 pavilions, temples, belvideres, and the 

 like. Yet in adapting the Gothic style 

 to buildings of small extent there may 

 be some reasonable objection: the fasti- 

 diousness even of good taste will per- 

 haps observe, that we always see vast 

 piles of buildings in ancient Gothic re- 

 mains, and that it is 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 representing them as ruins, 

 it is surely allowable to copy them for 

 the purposes of ornament: and, with re- 

 spect to the mixture of different styles in 

 Gothic edifices, I think there is no incon- 



