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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... is obliged to enter his regal residence " on all fours . " The mud structures of the beaver are superior to them ; but , as Dr. Jolinson says , " the beaver of the present day can build no better than could the beaver , OF ARCHITECTURE .
... is obliged to enter his regal residence " on all fours . " The mud structures of the beaver are superior to them ; but , as Dr. Jolinson says , " the beaver of the present day can build no better than could the beaver , OF ARCHITECTURE .
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... four thousand years ago . " Tents were among the earliest habitations . They were made at first of the skins of animals , afterwards of felt and various kinds of cloth . The Patriarchs of the Old Testament dwelt in tents , " While on ...
... four thousand years ago . " Tents were among the earliest habitations . They were made at first of the skins of animals , afterwards of felt and various kinds of cloth . The Patriarchs of the Old Testament dwelt in tents , " While on ...
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... four miles in height ! The geographer Strabo , who may perhaps be relied on , says it was six hundred and sixty feet high . The city was laid out in regular squares , the streets of fifteen miles in length crossing each other at right ...
... four miles in height ! The geographer Strabo , who may perhaps be relied on , says it was six hundred and sixty feet high . The city was laid out in regular squares , the streets of fifteen miles in length crossing each other at right ...
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... four of them assigned to me as conductors , with a promise of a good backshee in case they took me safely to the top , and returned me again where they found me . The gentlemen had each two to attend them . The effect pro- duced upon ...
... four of them assigned to me as conductors , with a promise of a good backshee in case they took me safely to the top , and returned me again where they found me . The gentlemen had each two to attend them . The effect pro- duced upon ...
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... four hundred feet high , and six hundred and sixty - five next morning , however , he ascended to the top in a very few minutes , and enjoyed the fine prospect exceedingly . The gentlemen cut their names on the summit , but I was ...
... four hundred feet high , and six hundred and sixty - five next morning , however , he ascended to the top in a very few minutes , and enjoyed the fine prospect exceedingly . The gentlemen cut their names on the summit , but I was ...
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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.