Transactions. Session Sixth, 1855-56W.H. Lizars, 1856 - 201 pages |
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... constructively but pictorially useless . The desideratum then is , to discover the best way in which the old styles of ecclesiastical architecture may be modified so as to meet our modern requirements . It would be very rash at once to ...
... constructively but pictorially useless . The desideratum then is , to discover the best way in which the old styles of ecclesiastical architecture may be modified so as to meet our modern requirements . It would be very rash at once to ...
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... constructive skill and dexterity of workmanship which mars the later German Gothic . The choir , as at St. Se- bald's , is of the same height with its aisles , but double their breadth , all these being considerably loftier than the ...
... constructive skill and dexterity of workmanship which mars the later German Gothic . The choir , as at St. Se- bald's , is of the same height with its aisles , but double their breadth , all these being considerably loftier than the ...
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... constructive simplicity which is essential to beauty . We have already seen the necessary concentration of ver- tical support done away with , in order to astonish the eye with the discontinuous impost ; and here , similarly , while in ...
... constructive simplicity which is essential to beauty . We have already seen the necessary concentration of ver- tical support done away with , in order to astonish the eye with the discontinuous impost ; and here , similarly , while in ...
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... constructive skill , which we admire in buildings dedicated to sacred pur- poses , were exhibited in the simple habitation of the simple citizen . The head and the hand of the artist were to be traced in all the minutiae of household ...
... constructive skill , which we admire in buildings dedicated to sacred pur- poses , were exhibited in the simple habitation of the simple citizen . The head and the hand of the artist were to be traced in all the minutiae of household ...
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... constructive science . Thus the Romans , when they borrowed the forms of Grecian art for merely decorative purposes , failed to seize the genius of invention , and under the guidance of plagia- rism , were led to construct edifices ...
... constructive science . Thus the Romans , when they borrowed the forms of Grecian art for merely decorative purposes , failed to seize the genius of invention , and under the guidance of plagia- rism , were led to construct edifices ...
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Adam Kraft aisles Ammianus Marcellinus ancient appear arches architect ARCHITECTURAL INSTITUTE arrangement Beams beautiful building built capital carved centre century chapel choir church Circus Circus Maximus colour columns consideration constructive corbels cornice court cross section Cwts decoration DEFLECTION Divisions of Load Domitian door Dürer edifices Edinburgh Egypt Egyptian Emperor erected experiments façade feeling feet 6 inches figures flanges front gable galleries garden genius Germany Gothic Gothic Architecture granite ground height Heliopolis hieroglyphics houses imitation interior masses ments modern monuments mouldings nave neutral axis Nuremberg obelisk occupied oriels ornament painted palms pediments pillars Pius VI placed Plate Pliny Pointed style proportions purpose pyramidion Pyramids remarkable represented Roman Rome roof sarcophagus sculptures sectional area shaft side Simbul stone storey street strength strongest section Syene taste temple Thebes tion tomb towers town turrets upper walls whole xxxvi
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Page 162 - The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours — confound him, too Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small pieces!
Page 35 - You ascend a flight of oak stairs (carefully, for the porter-husband is polishing his way down from the top, vigorously) by the help of a banister supported by bronzed and gilt rails. Your friend's door opened, admits you to a little hall, in which, when it is shut after you, you feel as much isolated from the world as if you were standing on the mat of the private residence of the honourable Deputy of St. Vitus's. Backlane, near Camber•well Green. Little drawing-rooms, diningroom, study, nursery,...
Page 56 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 34 - At the end of a pretty tesselated passage beside the shop, there is, at the foot of the stairs, a snug little glass case or, lodge. Looking in, you •will usually see a woman in a clean cap knitting a stocking ; a gilt pendule is certain to be ticking on the chimney-piece ; and a clean bed ensconced in an alcove. This woman's husband — always dressed, in the morning, in a cap and a coarse green apron — is one of the trustworthy and serviceable class of domestic hall-keepers, or porters, for...
Page 35 - Little drawing-rooms, dining-room, study, nursery, bed-rooms, kitchen, (and a back-stair leading to it, for servants and tradesmen,) all furnished with an amount of sensible taste highly suggestive to all the Deputies in all Camberwell. And all — horrid idea ! — over a shop. Yet your friend may be an English baronet or a foreign count, with thousands a year, and with some capital horses in a stable close by.
Page 34 - ... trustworthy and serviceable class of domestic hall-keepers, or porters, for which Paris is remarkable. He polishes the stairs, polishes the banisters, polishes every thing he can lay his hands upon, and has generally polished his own manners too. He is shrewd, steady, observant, and can keep his own counsel withal. Every floor pays him a small fixed monthly stipend ; and he is the guardian genius of the whole house. You ask his wife on which floor your friend lives, and she, the portress on duty,...
Page 164 - The beneficent Being who presides over reproduction, who enjoys heavenly dominion and fourfold power, commits the atmosphere by means of Mophtha, the beneficent principle of atmospheric humidity, unto Ammon, most powerful over the lower parts of the world, who by means of an image and appropriate ceremonies, is drawn to the exercising of his power.
Page 162 - I had aught to eat. But nowadays why, even when I have, I can't fall to, unless the sun gives leave. The town's so full of these confounded dials, The greatest part of its inhabitants Shrunk up with hunger, creep along the streets.
Page 89 - ... before we proceed to treat of them, it will be proper to make a few remarks on the distinction between mere house-building, and that high character of composition in the Grecian and Roman orders which is properly styled Architecture ; for though we have now many nobly architectural houses, we are much in danger of having our public edifices debased, by a consideration of what is convenient as a house, rather than what is correct as an architectural design.
Page 24 - Mr. Denison gives the clearest and most rational account of the merits and demerits of all the distinct styles of English Architecture of any which I have yet met with."— Sishop Terrofi Address.