Old London: Papers Read at the London Congress, July, 1866J. Murray, 1867 - 376 pages |
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... arch and Byzantine dome to our own time . Our lot , too , has fallen in an age when the passion for adorning and building is as ardent as it was in the age of Herod and Augustus— when the delight in antiquity and the charm of the past ...
... arch and Byzantine dome to our own time . Our lot , too , has fallen in an age when the passion for adorning and building is as ardent as it was in the age of Herod and Augustus— when the delight in antiquity and the charm of the past ...
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... arches of our stateliest bridges , over the ruin of our noblest churches . II . But having been thus forewarned , we are fore- armed . If the text in the first instance suggests the one correction which is needed , it also suggests , by ...
... arches of our stateliest bridges , over the ruin of our noblest churches . II . But having been thus forewarned , we are fore- armed . If the text in the first instance suggests the one correction which is needed , it also suggests , by ...
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... arch , springing from a strip of wall left as a sort of pier against each pilaster . The base of this arcade is a set - off in the wall stopped by the pilasters . The lights of the fourth or upper stage may be of about their original ...
... arch , springing from a strip of wall left as a sort of pier against each pilaster . The base of this arcade is a set - off in the wall stopped by the pilasters . The lights of the fourth or upper stage may be of about their original ...
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... arches . The columns are cylinders of 2 ft . 6 in . diameter , and 6 ft . 6 in . high , with plain torus bases resting upon a square stone of two stages , giving , with the base , an additional 20 inches . The capitals vary in pattern ...
... arches . The columns are cylinders of 2 ft . 6 in . diameter , and 6 ft . 6 in . high , with plain torus bases resting upon a square stone of two stages , giving , with the base , an additional 20 inches . The capitals vary in pattern ...
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... arch being exactly above , and of the same diameter with , that below . These arches spring from piers 30 in . square , and 4 ft . 3 in . high , without either base or cap . As the apsidal arches are not stilted , the piers are taller ...
... arch being exactly above , and of the same diameter with , that below . These arches spring from piers 30 in . square , and 4 ft . 3 in . high , without either base or cap . As the apsidal arches are not stilted , the piers are taller ...
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