 ... singular enough. In 1813, the point chiefly in view was to build, and build quickly, rather than to carry any certain plan into execution ; the houses were replaced with nearly the same irregularity with respect to each other, and the streets became...  Russia - Pagina 245door Astolphe Louis L. marq. de Custine - 1844Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1849 - 314 pagina’s
...the eye is able to range over the vast ocean of house-tops, trees, and gilded and coloured domes. But the architecture of Moscow, since the conflagration...travellers, it was before that event; nevertheless it is still singular enough. In 1813 the point chiefly in view was to build, and build quickly, rather than... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1849 - 342 pagina’s
...the eye is able to range over the vast ocean of house-tops, trees, and gilded and coloured domes. But the architecture of Moscow, since the conflagration...travellers, it was before that event; nevertheless it is still singular enough. In 1813 the point chiefly in view was to build, and build quickly, rather than... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1855 - 688 pagina’s
...the eye is able to range over the vast ocean of housetops, trees, and gilded and colored domes. But the architecture of Moscow, since the conflagration...travellers, it was before that event ; nevertheless it is still singular enough. In 1813, the point chiefly in view was to build, and build quickly, rather than... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1855 - 708 pagina’s
...the eye is able to range oveY the vast ocean of housetops, trees, and gilded and colored domes. But the architecture of Moscow, since. the conflagration...travellers, it was before that event ; nevertheless it is still singular enough. In 1813, the point chiefly in view was to build, and build quickly, rather than... | |
 | George Trevor - 1862 - 440 pagina’s
...uncultivated ' black field,' where the winds and powers of nature revel free and uncontrolled." * " The architecture of Moscow, since the conflagration...before that event ; nevertheless it is singular enough. It has all the charms of a new city, with the pleasing negligence and picturesque irregularity of an... | |
 | George Trevor - 1862 - 456 pagina’s
...wall, above all, the picture of a saint is suspended, under whose auspices all this labour is carried on. Such a guardian is placed over every spring used by man in Russia." * The rivers and ponds participate the sacred influence by means of a consecration, called the Jordan... | |
 | 1871 - 594 pagina’s
...the eye is able to range over the vast ocean of housetops, trees and gilded and colored domes. But the architecture of Moscow, since the conflagration...build quickly, rather than to carry any certain plan lnto execution; the houses were replaced with nearly the same irregularity with respect to each other,... | |
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