 | John M. Dillon - 1908 - 456 Seiten
...Horace Walpole's eulogy. He says: " There is no instance of a man before, who gave to wood the light airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." The New Quadrangle, built from designs of TG Jackson, is very attractive. These buildings were completed... | |
 | George Edwin Rines - 1911 - 658 Seiten
...subjects of this kind with so much delicacy that the effect is astonishing." Horace Waipole writes: "There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." Specimens of his carving may be seen in many of the London churches, at Windsor, Kensington and in... | |
 | Frederick William Burgess - 1915 - 592 Seiten
...instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers and changed together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species." DECORATED. The decorated furniture which ranges in date from 1714 to 1725 began during the reign of... | |
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There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species. 
