The Seven Lamps of ArchitectureB. Tauchnitz, 1907 - 334 pagina's |
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Pagina 40 - A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine; who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, makes that and the action fine.
Pagina 313 - 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...
Pagina 28 - The Claverings 2 v. Phineas Finn 3 v. He knew he was Right 3 v. The Vicar of Bullhampton 2 v. Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite I v. Ralph the Heir 2 v. The Golden Lion of Granpere I v. Australia and New Zealand 3 v. Lady Anna 2 v. Harry Heathcote of Gangoil I v.
Pagina 281 - Watch an old building with an anxious care; guard it as best you may, and at any cost, from every influence of dilapidation. Count its stones as you would jewels of a crown; set watches about it as if at the gates of a besieged city; bind it together with iron...
Pagina 192 - The whole system of railroad travelling is addressed to people who, being in a -hurry, are therefore, for the time being, miserable. No one would travel in that manner who could help it, who had time to go leisurely over hills and between hedges, instead of through tunnels and between banks...
Pagina 142 - ... thinking in shadow, not looking at a design in its miserable, liny skeleton ; but conceiving it as it will be when the dawn lights it and the dusk leaves it ; when its stones will be hot and its crannies cool ; when the lizards will bask on the one and the birds build in the other. Let him design with the sense of cold and heat upon him ; let him cut out the shadows, as men dig wells in unwatered plains...
Pagina 314 - Bear witness for me, wheresoe'er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty.
Pagina 50 - And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price : neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing.
Pagina 43 - AnCHiTECTtrBE is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, for whatsoever uses, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.
Pagina 266 - 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 ; with...