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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... materials , and , lastly , though not the least , whether he possess an excellent architectural taste and genius , so that his design when built may meet with the approval of those who are competent judges . The cultivation of the arts ...
... materials , and , lastly , though not the least , whether he possess an excellent architectural taste and genius , so that his design when built may meet with the approval of those who are competent judges . The cultivation of the arts ...
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... materials to be used by the builder is explained , alike important to be known by the private gentleman and the architect . No part in the history of national manners , says Mr. Hallam , illustrates the progress of social life so well ...
... materials to be used by the builder is explained , alike important to be known by the private gentleman and the architect . No part in the history of national manners , says Mr. Hallam , illustrates the progress of social life so well ...
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... materials , and on the same plan with the houses of * Rowland , Mona . Antiq . p . 88--89 . Tacit . de Morib . German . cap . 16. Vita Agric . c . xxi . + Macpherson's Dissertation , p . 17 . The Roman army approached , and ...
... materials , and on the same plan with the houses of * Rowland , Mona . Antiq . p . 88--89 . Tacit . de Morib . German . cap . 16. Vita Agric . c . xxi . + Macpherson's Dissertation , p . 17 . The Roman army approached , and ...
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... material being then abundant in Britain - till the time of Julius Agricola , who firmly established the dominion of the Romans in Britain , and governed it during the reigns of Vespasian , Titus , and Domitian . Architecture , from the ...
... material being then abundant in Britain - till the time of Julius Agricola , who firmly established the dominion of the Romans in Britain , and governed it during the reigns of Vespasian , Titus , and Domitian . Architecture , from the ...
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... materials had been erected during this reign , still , even the city of London , which he rebuilt , was actually constructed of the same fragile materials as those which had been employed by his predecessors ; ** and though he ...
... materials had been erected during this reign , still , even the city of London , which he rebuilt , was actually constructed of the same fragile materials as those which had been employed by his predecessors ; ** and though he ...
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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...