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gruity, provided the same character of 

 perpendicular architecture be studiously 

 retained; because there is hardly a cathe- 

 dral in England in which such mixture 

 may not be observed: and while the anti- 

 quary only can discover the Saxon and 

 Norman styles from the Gothic of later 

 date, the eye of taste will never be of- 

 fended, except ])y the occasional intro- 

 duction of some Grecian or Roman orna- 

 ments. 



The characters of Greciaji 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 in 

 - . buildings are caused by the openings or 

 projections in the surface: if these tend 

 Horizontal to pioducc liorizoutal Hncs, the building 

 G^edaiu ^^'i^ be dccmcd Grecian, however whim- 

 sically the doors or windows may be con- 

 structed: if, on the contrary, the shadows 

 Upright give a prevalence of perpendicular lines, 

 Gothic. ' the general character of the building will 

 be Gothic: this is evident from the large 



