The Seven Lamps of ArchitectureC. E. Merrill & Company, 1890 - 401 |
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Strona ix
... present volume is , so far as I know , the first treatise in English to teach the real significance of Architecture as the most trustworthy record of the Life and Faith of nations . The book was published in 1849 , when the author was ...
... present volume is , so far as I know , the first treatise in English to teach the real significance of Architecture as the most trustworthy record of the Life and Faith of nations . The book was published in 1849 , when the author was ...
Strona xiv
... present editions of these old books can never become cheap - though they will be , I trust , in time , all sufficiently accessible . Some short notes are added to the text of " The Seven Lamps , " now reprinted ; but the text itself ...
... present editions of these old books can never become cheap - though they will be , I trust , in time , all sufficiently accessible . Some short notes are added to the text of " The Seven Lamps , " now reprinted ; but the text itself ...
Strona xxi
... weakened health , which I may be permitted to name among the causes of the slightness and imperfection of the present Essay . CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1880 PREFACE PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION . xxi.
... weakened health , which I may be permitted to name among the causes of the slightness and imperfection of the present Essay . CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1880 PREFACE PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION . xxi.
Strona 1
... present day , unite perfection of drawing with resplendence of colour , the writer made some inquiry respect- ing the general means by which this latter quality was most easily to be attained . The reply was as concise as it was ...
... present day , unite perfection of drawing with resplendence of colour , the writer made some inquiry respect- ing the general means by which this latter quality was most easily to be attained . The reply was as concise as it was ...
Strona 6
... present sim- plicity of its plan . Simple though it be , its extent is too great to admit of any adequate accomplish- ment , unless by a devotion of time which the writer did not feel justified in withdrawing from branches of inquiry in ...
... present sim- plicity of its plan . Simple though it be , its extent is too great to admit of any adequate accomplish- ment , unless by a devotion of time which the writer did not feel justified in withdrawing from branches of inquiry in ...
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Strona 139 - And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth : and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
Strona 400 - Woods! that listen to the night-birds singing, Midway the smooth and perilous slope reclined, Save when your own imperious branches swinging, Have made a solemn music of the wind! Where, like a man beloved of God, Through glooms, which never woodman trod...
Strona 358 - We have no right whatever to touch them. They are not ours. They belong partly to those who built them, and partly to all the generations of mankind who are to follow us.
Strona 318 - For we are not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts. We have certain work to do for our bread, and that is to be done strenuously ; other work to do for our delight, and that is to be done heartily: neither is to be done by halves and shifts, but with a will : and what is not worth this effort is not to be done at all.
Strona 399 - YE clouds ! that far above me float and pause, Whose pathless march no mortal may control ! Ye ocean-waves ! that, wheresoe'er ye roll, Yield homage only to eternal laws ! Ye woods ! that listen to the night-birds...
Strona 216 - Hence then a general law, of singular importance in the present day, a law of simple common sense, — not to decorate things belonging to purposes of active and occupied life. Wherever you can rest, there decorate ; where rest is forbidden, so is beauty. You must not mix ornament with business, any more than you may mix play. Work first, and then rest. Work first and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel. Do not thrash with sculptured flails : nor put bas-reliefs...
Strona 340 - ... it is in that golden stain of time that we are to look for the real light and colour and preciousness of architecture...
Strona 16 - ... being architectural ; neither can there be any architecture which is not based on building, nor any good architecture which is not based on good building ; but it is perfectly easy, and very necessary, to keep the ideas distinct, and to understand fully that Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.
Strona 8 - A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine; who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, makes that and the action fine.
Strona 331 - I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, 'and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be, within and without...