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fo in a bridge, than in any other building.
Perhaps no building of equal folidity has fo
light an appearance as a light ftone bridge;
and that I imagine is owing to its having a
fmaller proportion of what is clofed up,
compared with what is open; to the form
of the openings; and to the peculiarity
of fituation, from which a bridge feems,
as it were, to pafs frorn one iide of a river
to the other, with fomething analogous
to motion: and this method of confider-
ing fuch objecls, though it may appear
fantaftic, will, I believe, lead to very juft
principles.
Lightnefs is in the fame degree congenial
to beauty, as maffivenels is to grandeur.
Whatever gives the idea of eafy and rapid
motion, gives in the fame proportion that of
lightnefs; and, on the other hand, whatever
impreffes the idea of refiftance to motion, in
the fame proportion alfo, imprelfes that of
maffive-
fo in a bridge, than in any other building.
Perhaps no building of equal folidity has fo
light an appearance as a light ftone bridge;
and that I imagine is owing to its having a
fmaller proportion of what is clofed up,
compared with what is open; to the form
of the openings; and to the peculiarity
of fituation, from which a bridge feems,
as it were, to pafs frorn one iide of a river
to the other, with fomething analogous
to motion: and this method of confider-
ing fuch objecls, though it may appear
fantaftic, will, I believe, lead to very juft
principles.
Lightnefs is in the fame degree congenial
to beauty, as maffivenels is to grandeur.
Whatever gives the idea of eafy and rapid
motion, gives in the fame proportion that of
lightnefs; and, on the other hand, whatever
impreffes the idea of refiftance to motion, in
the fame proportion alfo, imprelfes that of
maffive-