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... splendid , the awful , and to avoid the offensive and the mean . It has been questioned , among the learned and ingenious , Whether Utility has any essential con- nection with Beauty , or with picturesk effect ? Gilpin , discussing the ...
... splendid , the awful , and to avoid the offensive and the mean . It has been questioned , among the learned and ingenious , Whether Utility has any essential con- nection with Beauty , or with picturesk effect ? Gilpin , discussing the ...
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... splendid palace , that had yet been seen ; unless greater power and wealth may have produced in Egypt , or in Babylonia , and possibly in regions eastward of Babylonia , magnificence which he could not rival . But Solomon had married ...
... splendid palace , that had yet been seen ; unless greater power and wealth may have produced in Egypt , or in Babylonia , and possibly in regions eastward of Babylonia , magnificence which he could not rival . But Solomon had married ...
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... splendid palace , that had yet been seen ; unless greater power and wealth may have produced in Egypt , or in Babylonia , and possibly in regions eastward of Babylonia , magnificence which he could not rival . But Solomon had married ...
... splendid palace , that had yet been seen ; unless greater power and wealth may have produced in Egypt , or in Babylonia , and possibly in regions eastward of Babylonia , magnificence which he could not rival . But Solomon had married ...
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... splendid relic of Roman imperial magnificence ; and at the same time I ceased to wonder that , of the many repre- sentations of it by able artists , none conveyed ideas of architectonic merit , at all commensurate with that admiration ...
... splendid relic of Roman imperial magnificence ; and at the same time I ceased to wonder that , of the many repre- sentations of it by able artists , none conveyed ideas of architectonic merit , at all commensurate with that admiration ...
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... splendid temples , or edifices for sacred purposes , of which ruins remain in Egypt , vary so much in style that they deny classification ; their varieties are not to be brought under rule and system , like the Greek , in what we call ...
... splendid temples , or edifices for sacred purposes , of which ruins remain in Egypt , vary so much in style that they deny classification ; their varieties are not to be brought under rule and system , like the Greek , in what we call ...
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Strona 158 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Strona 134 - CAITI.I. called the Queen's Oriel is remarkable for the fancy, luxuriance, and elegance of the workmanship. Nor is the contrivance of the little terraced garden below, considering the history of the times, a matter of small curiosity, where, though all the surrounding country were hostile, fresh air might be safely enjoyed ; and the commanding view of the singularly beautiful landscape around, from both that little herbary or garden, and the bay window or oriel, is so managed as to leave no doubt...
Strona 197 - Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici...
Strona 271 - I venture to deliver it as . my opinion that there are only two characters of buildings: the one may be called perpendicular, and the other horizontal. Under the first, I class all buildings erected in England before and during the early part of Queen Elizabeth's reign, whether deemed Saracenic, Saxon, Norman, or the Gothic of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries ; and even that peculiar kind called Queen Elizabeth's Gothic, in which turrets prevailed, though battlements were discarded and Grecian...
Strona 133 - Conway," observes an anonymous author, "what is called the Queen's Oriel is remarkable for the fancy, luxuriance, and elegance of the workmanship. Nor is the contrivance of the little terraced garden below, considering the history of the times, a matter of small curiosity, where, though all the surrounding country were hostile, fresh air might be safely enjoyed; and the commanding view of the singularly beautiful landscape around, from both that little herbary or garden, and the bay window or oriel...
Strona 258 - ... above may be increased, or must be diminished, according to circumstances. If a greater width of foundation be thought necessary, it must be gained by increasing the number of the footings, and not their width. The height of abutment, and span, and rise of arch, I suppose prescribed for the engineer.
Strona 86 - Instead of a mere sacristy for the priests, the term at which the pomp of processions ended, and in front of which, under the vault of the sky...
Strona 44 - Tis with our judgements as our watches, none Co just alike, but each believes his own.