The artists repository and drawing magazine: exhibiting the principles of the polite arts in their various branches (3.1789)

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is, since it is crowded with abundant objects
which may contribute to such deception ? It is
a fa 61, that at the fir It survey of this church,
Grangers always estimate it less than they find
it to be after they become better acquainted
with its various parts. I know this has been
accounted for by supposing its arcades are too
high 3 perhaps, however, both reasons may
unite.
After having disapproved too much orna-
ment on the outside of buildings, I shall indi-
cate where, in my opinion, ornament may be
very suitably employed; and that too without
fear that its delicacy fliould be overlooked.
I mean in t'nose apartments which in molt, I
might say in every, capacious strudture, are
appropriated to festivity and hilarity: here let
the ornaments also be festive and hilarious;
whatever may attrafl or delight the eye, what-
ever may diversify the scene, shall here reign
uncontrolled. For though a visitant would
be aukwardly employed in examining the ex-
terior ornaments of a strudture, while he was
expedted by its owner; yet in the drawing-room,
or the cabinet, what forbids his enjoying the
delicacy of the Artist’s workmanship, the finish-
ing and propriety of his embellishments, or
the finking effedt of his compositions ? Here
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