A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method for Students, Craftsmen, & AmateursB.T. Batsford, Limited, 1924 - 933 pages |
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Abbey aisles angles apse arcades architects architecture architrave Athens Basilica brick buildings buttresses Byzantine capitals carved Castle Cathedral A.D. central centre century CHAPEL character choir churches circular clear-story cloisters colonnades coloured columns Corinthian cornice court crowned decoration diameter dome DOORWAY Doric Egypt Egyptian England English entablature entrance erected Europe exterior external façade flanked Florence Folio France gallery Gothic Gothic architecture Greek hall houses influence Inigo Jones interior Ionic Ionic Order Italy King London marble Mediæval Medieval monuments Mosque mouldings nave Norman octagonal ornament Palace Palazzo panels Paris pediment period peristyle Photos piers pilasters pointed arches porch portico Renaissance Renaissance architecture ribs Roman Roman architecture Romanesque Rome Rome A.D. roof Saracenic sculptured semicircular side square stone storeys style supporting surmounted Temple Thermæ timber tombs towers town tracery transepts triforium vaulting Venice vols walls western Westminster Westminster Abbey
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Page 433 - 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...
Page 308 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced quire below In service high and anthems clear As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Page 707 - You show us Rome was glorious, not profuse, And pompous buildings once were things of use; Yet shall, my lord, your just, your noble rules, Fill half the land with imitating fools ; Who random drawings from your sheets shall take; And of one beauty many blunders make...
Page 95 - Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone. And Morning opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky. As on its friends, with kindred eye; For out of thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air...
Page 419 - The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide : The level chambers, ready with their pride, Were glowing to receive a thousand guests : The carved angels, ever eager-eyed, Stared, where upon their heads the cornice rests, With hair blown back, and wings put cross-wise on their breasts.
Page 4 - Ah, to build, to build ! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.
Page 308 - Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Page 320 - With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate, row and row, On ponderous columns, short and low, Built ere the art was known, By pointed aisle and shafted stalk The arcades of an alleyed walk To emulate in stone. On the deep walls the heathen Dane Had poured his impious rage in vain; And needful was such strength to these, Exposed to the tempestuous seas, Scourged by the winds...
Page 660 - A, B, c). Nothing richer in decorative sculpture was achieved than in the Stiftskirche, Stuttgart, where the architectural frame of Hermes pilasters, surmounted by winged cupids, encloses figures of the Counts of Wurtemberg with their heraldic devices. The country also abounds in Renaissance monuments, such as that remarkable memorial of Duke Frederick in S. Maurice, Coburg. numerous chimney-pieces of an architectural character, with heraldic devices, sculptured well-heads, and other ornamental features,...
Page 720 - Of neighbouring spires, a regal chieftain stands, And over fields of ridgy roofs appear, With distance softly tinted, side by side, In kindred grace, like twain of sisters dear, The Towers of Westminster, her Abbey's pride; While, far beyond, the hills of Surrey shine Through thin soft haze, and show their wavy line.