 | 1869
...Englishmen are so familiar, and we would fully endorse Mr. Fergusson's remark : — " It will hardly be disputed that the exterior of St. Paul's surpasses...the grandest and most beautiful churches of Europe." (p. 401.) Dean Milman's account of this restoration will be read with interest. He adds but little... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - 1868 - 588 pages
...which strike his fastidious judgement, writes, ' It will hardly be ' disputed that the exterior of S. Paul's surpasses in ' beauty of design all the other...the grandest and most beautiful churches of Europe.' 7 CHAP. But with the matchless exterior ceases the superioritr, xvij -' . . • and likewise, to a... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England) - 1869 - 588 pages
...which strike his fastidious judgement, writes : ' It will hardly be ' disputed that the exterior of S. Paul's surpasses in ' beauty of design all the other...one of ' the grandest and most beautiful churches of Europe.'7 ' VoL iii. p. 274. DD CHAP. XVII. THE TWO DESIGNS. CHAP. XVII. But with the matchless exterior... | |
 | American periodicals - 1869 - 826 pages
...never to recur again. Of the fabric as actually completed, Mr. Fergussou writes: "It will hardly be disputed that the exterior of St. Paul's surpasses...of design all the other examples of the same class that have yet been carried out ; and whether seen from a distance or near, it is — externally at... | |
 | William Longman - Church architecture - 1873 - 374 pages
...naturally, with the exterior. This, as Mr. The «xFergusson says, 'surpasses in beauty all the other terior' examples of the same class which have yet been carried...one of the grandest and most beautiful Churches of Europe.'1 It is not a little surprising to contrast with this the opinion expressed by Strype in his... | |
 | William Longman - Church architecture - 1873 - 360 pages
...'surpasses in beauty all the other terior' examples of the same class which have yet been Ferguscarried out; and, whether seen from a distance or near, it...one of the grandest and most beautiful Churches of Europe.'1 It is not a little surprising to contrast with this the opinion expressed by Strype in his... | |
 | Edward Walford - London (England) - 1879 - 328 pages
...examples of the same class which have been carried out, and, whether seen from a distance or near, is, externally at least, one of the grandest and most beautiful churches in Europe." It is well, indeed, then, that the worthy Dean who has so recently passed from among us... | |
 | Arthur Milman - 1900 - 372 pages
...impartial and impatient of some defects which strike his fastidious judgment, writes: " It will hardly be disputed that the exterior of St. Paul's surpasses...the grandest and most beautiful churches of Europe." These criticisims are, it will be observed, limited to the exterior. For the interior Wren's designs... | |
 | Percy Leslie Waterhouse - Architecture - 1901 - 232 pages
...features, leading most critics to endorse Fergusson's encomium. "The exterior of S. Paul's," he says, " surpasses in beauty of design all the other examples...least, one of the grandest and most beautiful churches in Europe." S. Paul's has the advantage •over S. Peter's in that it was completed within FIG. 56.... | |
 | Esther Singleton - Architecture - 2003 - 420 pages
...impartial and impatient of some defects which strike his fastidious judgment, wrote : " It will hardly be disputed that the exterior of St. Paul's surpasses...least, one of the grandest and most beautiful churches in Europe." But with the matchless exterior ceases the superiority, and likewise, to a great degree,... | |
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Paul's surpasses in beauty of design all the other examples of the same class which have yet been carried out ; and whether seen from a distance or near, it is, externally at least, one of the grandest and most beautiful churches in Europe. 