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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... variety of well - varied and combined parts , forming so many pictures in nature , requires very different and very superior abilities . The difference of expense between good and bad forms is comparatively trifling the difference in ...
... variety of well - varied and combined parts , forming so many pictures in nature , requires very different and very superior abilities . The difference of expense between good and bad forms is comparatively trifling the difference in ...
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... variety of Climate in Great Britain , and the appropriate places of Residence for Invalids PLATE LXI . 312 Glossary of Domestic Architectural Terms 315 Landscape Gardening , containing the Art of Laying An Italian Garden , Orangery ...
... variety of Climate in Great Britain , and the appropriate places of Residence for Invalids PLATE LXI . 312 Glossary of Domestic Architectural Terms 315 Landscape Gardening , containing the Art of Laying An Italian Garden , Orangery ...
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... variety of objects included within the sphere of vision from this spot excites the most pleasing sensations ; -the windings of the Thames through a wide extent of country ; the scenery of the forest ; the venerable groves ; the busy ...
... variety of objects included within the sphere of vision from this spot excites the most pleasing sensations ; -the windings of the Thames through a wide extent of country ; the scenery of the forest ; the venerable groves ; the busy ...
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... 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 , illustrate the age of Henry VII . * The residences of ...
... 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 , illustrate the age of Henry VII . * The residences of ...
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... variety and vivacity of his parts , there are perhaps few who have seen with their own eyes those fine scenes on the Ayr , the Doon , the Lugar , and the Nith , amid which he loved to wander and work their beauties into his verse - or ...
... variety and vivacity of his parts , there are perhaps few who have seen with their own eyes those fine scenes on the Ayr , the Doon , the Lugar , and the Nith , amid which he loved to wander and work their beauties into his verse - or ...
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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...