History of Architecture: From the Earliest Times; Its Present Condition in Europe and the United States; with a Biography of Eminent Architects, and a Glossary of Architectural TermsLindsay and Blakiston, 1848 - 426 ページ |
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... apartments . Before the entrance into this grand temple , stand two colossal statues , twenty - seven feet high . Thirty - five octagonal columns support the roof , which is not flat like Elephanta , but finely arched . The bases and ...
... apartments . Before the entrance into this grand temple , stand two colossal statues , twenty - seven feet high . Thirty - five octagonal columns support the roof , which is not flat like Elephanta , but finely arched . The bases and ...
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... apartments around the main building , for the vases and other utensils used in the Jewish service , for the provisions for the priests , and for their accommodation while employed about the sacred duties of the temple . The great altar ...
... apartments around the main building , for the vases and other utensils used in the Jewish service , for the provisions for the priests , and for their accommodation while employed about the sacred duties of the temple . The great altar ...
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... apartments are narrow , seldom exceeding twelve feet . The peculiar arch of the country has been em- ployed in every room . The Casa del Gobernador stands on three terraces ; the lowest is three feet high , fifteen feet wide , and five ...
... apartments are narrow , seldom exceeding twelve feet . The peculiar arch of the country has been em- ployed in every room . The Casa del Gobernador stands on three terraces ; the lowest is three feet high , fifteen feet wide , and five ...
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... apartments within , more resemble corridors or galleries , than rooms , some of them being twenty - three feet high , and only eleven or thirteen wide ; some of them have but one door of entrance , and none of them windows . The walls ...
... apartments within , more resemble corridors or galleries , than rooms , some of them being twenty - three feet high , and only eleven or thirteen wide ; some of them have but one door of entrance , and none of them windows . The walls ...
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... apartment of the Parthenon . This statue was thirty - nine feet high , of ivory , covered with gold , and for richness and exquisite beauty of workmanship , was unsurpassed by any statue of an- tiquity . Another apartment was used for ...
... apartment of the Parthenon . This statue was thirty - nine feet high , of ivory , covered with gold , and for richness and exquisite beauty of workmanship , was unsurpassed by any statue of an- tiquity . Another apartment was used for ...
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165 ページ - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
22 ページ - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
34 ページ - And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore : let them go and gather straw for themselves.
114 ページ - There is a stern round tower of other days, Firm as a fortress, with its fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland of eternity, where wave The green leaves over all by time o'erthrown ; — 4 What was this tower of strength? within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so hid? — A woman's grave.
191 ページ - All musical in its immensities : Rich marbles — richer painting — shrines where flame The lamps of gold — and haughty dome which vies In air with earth's chief structures, though their frame Sits on the firm-set ground — and this the clouds must claim.
18 ページ - All things to man's delightful use : the roof Of thickest covert was inwoven shade, Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew Of firm and fragrant leaf; on either side Acanthus, and each odorous bushy shrub, Fenced up the verdant wall; each beauteous flower, Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine, Rear'd high their flourish'd heads between, and wrought Mosaic; under foot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth, with rich inlay Broider'd the ground, more colour'd than with stone Of costliest emblem : other creature...
154 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.
29 ページ - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
71 ページ - Hither the inhabitants of the capital flocked to witness the consummation of the ceremony. As the sad procession wound up the sides of the pyramid the unhappy victim threw away his gay chaplets of flowers and broke in pieces the musical instruments with which he had solaced the hours of captivity. On the summit he was received by six priests, whose long and matted locks flowed disorderly over their sable robes, covered with hieroglyphic scrolls of mystic import.
201 ページ - ... stairs rather directed to the use of the guest than to the eye of the artificer; and yet as the one chiefly heeded, so the other not neglected; each place handsome without curiosity, and homely without loathsomeness; not so dainty as not to be trod on, nor yet flubbered up with good fellowship; all more lasting than beautiful, but that the consideration of the exceeding lastingness made the eye believe it was exceeding beautiful.