 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1842 - 318 էջ
...address the imagination : and why not in architecture ? The forms and turnings of the streets of London, and other old towns, are produced by accident, without...been, as we know it is in some new parts of the town, rather unpleasing ; the uniformity might have produced weariness, and a slight degree of disgust. I... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1846 - 506 էջ
...address the imagination : and why not in Architecture ? The forms and turnings of the streets of London and other old towns are produced by accident, without...the city had been built on the regular plan of Sir Cristopher Wren, the effect might have been, as we know it is in some new parts of the town, rather... | |
 | John W. McClung - 1851 - 386 էջ
...appearance of the city. On this subject a writer observes, "the forms and turnings of the streets of London, and other old towns, are produced by accident, without...walker or spectator, on that account. On the contrary, had they been built on the regular plan of Sir Christopher Wren, the effect might have been, as it... | |
 | Isaac Smith Homans - 1851 - 392 էջ
...appearance of the city. On this subject a writer observes, " the forms and turnings of the streets o London, and other old towns, are produced by accident, without...walker or spectator, on that account. On the contrary, had they been built on BOSTON IN DISTRICTS. the regular plan of Sir Christopher Wren, the effect might... | |
 | Robert Stuart - 1854 - 1272 էջ
...convenience. '1 he forms and burning of the streets of London, and other old towns, are accidents, without any original plan or design, but they are...contrary, if the city had been built on the regular plan proposed by Sir Christopher Wren after the great fire, the effect might have been, as we knoxv it is... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Cunningham - 1860 - 398 էջ
...address the imagination; and why not in Architecture ? The forms and turnings of the streets of London and other old towns are produced by accident, without...been, as we know it is in some new parts of the town, rather unpleasing ; the uniformity might have produced weariness, and a slight degree of disgust. I... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 332 էջ
...address the imagination : and why not in Architecture 1 The forms and turnings of the streets of London and other old towns are produced by accident, without...been, as we know it is in some new parts of the town, rather unpleasing ; the uniformity might have produced weariness, and a slight degree of disgust. I... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 330 էջ
...address the imagination : and why not in Architecture 1 The forms and turnings of the streets of London and other old towns are produced by accident, without...Sir Christopher Wren, the effect might have been, as wo know it is in some new parts of the town, rather unploasing; the uniformity might have produced... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1905 - 564 էջ
...address the imagination : and why not in architecture ? The forms and turnings of the streets of London, and other old towns, are produced by accident, without...been, as we know it is in some new parts of the town, rather unpleasing ; the uniformity might have produced weariness, and a slight degree of disgust. I... | |
 | 1839 - 348 էջ
...address the imagination, and why not in architecture ? The forms and turnings of the streets of London, and other old towns, are produced by accident, without...been, as we know it is in some new parts of the town, rather unpleasing : the uniformity might have produced weariness, and a slight degree of disgust. I... | |
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The forms and turnings of the streets of London, and other old towns, are produced by accident, without any original plan or design; but they are not always the less pleasant to the walker or spectator, on that account. On the contrary, if the city had... 
