much variety as any regular figure can well 

 have: the eye too is less strongly conduct- 

 ed, than by the parallel lines in the Grecian 

 style, from the top of one aperture to that of 

 another : and every person must be struck 

 with the extreme richness and intricacy of 

 some of the principal windows of our ca- 

 thedrals and ruined abbeys. In these last 

 is displayed the triumph of the picturesque; 

 and their charms to a painters eye are 

 often so great, as to rival those which arise 

 from the chaste ornaments, and the noble 

 and elegant simplicity of Grecian archi- 

 tecture. 



Some people may, perhaps, be unwil- 

 ling to allow, that in ruins of Grecian and 

 Gothic architecture, any considerable part 

 of the spectator's pleasure arises from the 

 picturesque circumstances; and may choose 

 to attribute the whole, to what may justly 

 claim a great share in that pleasure — the 

 elegance or grandeur of their forms — the 

 veneration of high antiquity— or the solem- 

 nity of religious awe; in a word, to the 

 mixture of the two other characters. But 



