Domestic Architecture: Containing a History of the Science, and the Principles of Designing Public Edifices, Private Dwelling-houses ... With Some Observations on Rural Residences, Their Situation and Scenery; and Instructions on the Art of Laying Out and Imbellishing GroundsG. Virtue, 1841 - 342 стор. |
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... beautiful villa , to the comfort , as well as to the embellish- ment of their domains . To attain , however , a perfect knowledge of architecture , and the forma- tion of a pure and classical taste , requires an acquaintance with ...
... beautiful villa , to the comfort , as well as to the embellish- ment of their domains . To attain , however , a perfect knowledge of architecture , and the forma- tion of a pure and classical taste , requires an acquaintance with ...
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... beautiful and the grand in architecture , will prove acceptable to those gentlemen who may contemplate the improvement of the grounds around their mansions . In the Introduction to this work will be found stated the qualifications ...
... beautiful and the grand in architecture , will prove acceptable to those gentlemen who may contemplate the improvement of the grounds around their mansions . In the Introduction to this work will be found stated the qualifications ...
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... beautiful , rich , and elaborate details of interlacing arches , zig - zag ornaments , beak - heads , and billet - mouldings of the last style of Norman architecture . After this period , and when the nation had become more settled ...
... beautiful , rich , and elaborate details of interlacing arches , zig - zag ornaments , beak - heads , and billet - mouldings of the last style of Norman architecture . After this period , and when the nation had become more settled ...
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... beautiful , and highly ornamented , like lacework , in a variety of curious devices , as those at Eaton Col- lege , which are still to be seen . Nether - hall , Essex , West Stow - hall , Suffolk , and East Barham - hall , Norfolk ...
... beautiful , and highly ornamented , like lacework , in a variety of curious devices , as those at Eaton Col- lege , which are still to be seen . Nether - hall , Essex , West Stow - hall , Suffolk , and East Barham - hall , Norfolk ...
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... beautiful corner Vignettes , of Noble- men's and Gentlemen's Mansions , Picturesque Ruins , also Armorial Decorations , chiefly from the Seals of County Towns . By THOMAS MOULE , author of Bibliotheca Heraldica , and editor of several ...
... beautiful corner Vignettes , of Noble- men's and Gentlemen's Mansions , Picturesque Ruins , also Armorial Decorations , chiefly from the Seals of County Towns . By THOMAS MOULE , author of Bibliotheca Heraldica , and editor of several ...
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Сторінка 270 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below, LXIII.
Сторінка 99 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Сторінка 110 - He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills. They give drink to every beast of the field : the wild asses quench their thirst. By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.
Сторінка 328 - To build, to plant, whatever you intend. To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot; In all, let nature never be forgot.
Сторінка 174 - When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model ; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection ; Which if we find outweighs ability, What do we then but draw anew the model In fewer offices, or at least desist To build at all...
Сторінка 46 - And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers : I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea : fur I have spoken it, saith the Lord God : and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
Сторінка 136 - And every one that heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand : and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
Сторінка 270 - I praise the Frenchman*, his remark was shrewd—. How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet.
Сторінка 286 - And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace...
Сторінка 167 - And may my humble dwelling stand Upon some chosen spot of land : A pond before full to the brim, Where cows may cool, and geese may swim; Behind, a green like velvet neat, Soft to the eye, and to the feet; Where od'rous plants in evening fair Breathe all around ambrosial air...