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date of the old cottages on the borders of 

 a forest, it will less betray the innovation 

 of modern improvement. It is not by a 

 pointed arch to the door, or a sham Gothic 

 window, that such style is to be imitated, 

 but by a nice observance of the costume, 

 forms, and construction of such buildings, 

 as actually existed in the days of Queen 

 EHzabeth, from which the smallest devi- 

 ation will betray the attempt to deceive: 

 the deception, if complete, is allowable, 

 since it is the " business of art to deceive;" 

 but the spruce or clumsy effort, that is 

 sure to betray, is also sure to be ridicu- 

 lous — " The attempt, and not the deed, 

 confounds." 



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