Note 94 — Chapter VII · THE NEW PALACE AT WESTMINSTER.

“In composing, he always began with the simplest forms, and never made a break, till he felt it absolutely necessary. If the length of a front was too great for its height he admitted flanking towers. These did not destroy the unity of the mass. But to raise the centre was to cut the mass into three separate parts—a decomposition which he abhorred.” In the river front “the excessive length compelled him to raise the centre, but nothing would induce him to advance it."—MS. note W.