The Art of Masonry in BritainOffices of the Stone Trades Journal, 1904 - 105 ページ |
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... King Alfred and the Art of Building . CHAPTER III . The Norman Era - An Age of Castle Building - The Mason's Guild - The First Strike of British Masons -Wages in the Fifteenth Century . 4-6 7-10 CHAPTER IV . Bits of Old British Masonry ...
... King Alfred and the Art of Building . CHAPTER III . The Norman Era - An Age of Castle Building - The Mason's Guild - The First Strike of British Masons -Wages in the Fifteenth Century . 4-6 7-10 CHAPTER IV . Bits of Old British Masonry ...
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... King of the Picts , sent ambas- sadors to Ceolfred , Abbot of Wearmouth , earnestly desiring him to send masons to build a church of stone in his kingdom after the Roman style . Bede , who was then residing at the abbey , tells us that ...
... King of the Picts , sent ambas- sadors to Ceolfred , Abbot of Wearmouth , earnestly desiring him to send masons to build a church of stone in his kingdom after the Roman style . Bede , who was then residing at the abbey , tells us that ...
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... King Alfred had to rely mainly upon Continental masons , of whom , says his friend Asserius , " he had an almost innumerable multitude . " Not only did King Alfred encourage the art of building himself , but he compelled all his subordi ...
... King Alfred had to rely mainly upon Continental masons , of whom , says his friend Asserius , " he had an almost innumerable multitude . " Not only did King Alfred encourage the art of building himself , but he compelled all his subordi ...
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... kings , in his short reign of nineteen years , studded the land with no fewer than 1,115 new castles . The author of the " Saxon Chronicle declares that in this reign " every one who was able built a castle ; so that the poor people ...
... kings , in his short reign of nineteen years , studded the land with no fewer than 1,115 new castles . The author of the " Saxon Chronicle declares that in this reign " every one who was able built a castle ; so that the poor people ...
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... King David alone building thirteen abbeys and priories , in addition to many churches and cathedrals . It is worthy of note , however , that the English and Scottish quarries were not at that time very fully developed , for , from the ...
... King David alone building thirteen abbeys and priories , in addition to many churches and cathedrals . It is worthy of note , however , that the English and Scottish quarries were not at that time very fully developed , for , from the ...
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43 ページ - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
74 ページ - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils Himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
35 ページ - I have no dearer aim than to have it in my power, unplagued with the routine of business, for which, heaven knows ! I am unfit enough, to make leisurely pilgrimages through Caledonia ; to sit on the fields of her battles ; to wander on the romantic banks of her rivers ; and to muse by the stately towers or venerable ruins, once the honoured abodes of her heroes.
43 ページ - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
29 ページ - The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
22 ページ - With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate, row and row, On ponderous columns, short and low, Built ere the art was known, By pointed aisle, and shafted stalk, The arcades of an alley'd walk To emulate in stone.
45 ページ - I know not anything so perfect in its simplicity, and so beautiful, as far as it reaches, in all the Gothic with which I am acquainted. And just in proportion to his power of mind, that man was content to work under Nature's teaching ; and instead of putting a merely formal dogtooth, as everybody else did at the time, he went down to the woody bank of the sweet river beneath the rocks on which he was building, and he took up a few of the fallen leaves that lay by it, and he set them in his arch,...
105 ページ - As I am dismissed, having worn out by God's mercy a long life in the Royal service, and having made some figure in the world, I hope it will be allowed me to die in peace.
29 ページ - They entered now the chancel tall ; The darkened roof rose high aloof On pillars lofty and light and small: The keystone that locked each ribbed aisle Was a fleur-de-lys or a quatre-feuille; The corbels were carved grotesque and grim; And the pillars, with clustered shafts so trim, With base and with capital flourished around, Seemed bundles of lances which garlands had bound.
14 ページ - The castle (Bedford) was taken by four assaults : in the first was taken the Barbicans, in the second the outer Ballia ; at the third attack the wall by the old tower was thrown down by the miners, where, with great danger, they possessed themselves of the inner Ballia, through a chink ; at the fourth assault, the miners set fire to the Tower (or Keep), so that the smoke burst out, and the tower itself was cloven to that degree, as to shew visibly some broad chinks ; whereupon the enemy surrendered.