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 páginas |
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... built the first houses . But in reference to Europe , we have more certain records . I purpose therefore - after noticing the origin of architecture in a general way , which was nearly the same in all countries - to commence by giving ...
... built the first houses . But in reference to Europe , we have more certain records . I purpose therefore - after noticing the origin of architecture in a general way , which was nearly the same in all countries - to commence by giving ...
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... built them in that way . The story related by Pliny , of his having taken a martlet's nest for his model , may justly excite a smile.§ When Julius Cæsar invaded Britain , he was informed that the inhabitants of Kent , and of some other ...
... built them in that way . The story related by Pliny , of his having taken a martlet's nest for his model , may justly excite a smile.§ When Julius Cæsar invaded Britain , he was informed that the inhabitants of Kent , and of some other ...
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... built circular , and have a large aperture at the top . We find that when the Britons were invaded by the Romans , they had nothing amongst them answering to our ideas of a city or town ; that is , a space laid out , and consisting of a ...
... built circular , and have a large aperture at the top . We find that when the Britons were invaded by the Romans , they had nothing amongst them answering to our ideas of a city or town ; that is , a space laid out , and consisting of a ...
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... built town , embellished with statues , pagan temples , theatres , baths , and other public structures . From many circumstances , however , it appears that these buildings , like the early provincial theatres of the Romans , from which ...
... built town , embellished with statues , pagan temples , theatres , baths , and other public structures . From many circumstances , however , it appears that these buildings , like the early provincial theatres of the Romans , from which ...
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... built towns , forts , and stations . The Anglo - Romans , however , it is supposed , did not erect many stone edifices in Britain ; for if they had , it is not probable the stones would have perished or been applied to other purposes ...
... built towns , forts , and stations . The Anglo - Romans , however , it is supposed , did not erect many stone edifices in Britain ; for if they had , it is not probable the stones would have perished or been applied to other purposes ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...