Remarks on Secular & Domestic Architecture, Present & FutureJ. Murray, 1857 - 285 páginas |
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... look upon , as well as comfortable to live in ? Are they objects which we feel a national pride in , or would wish to point out to our visitors from other countries as symbolizing well with the state of civili- zation we profess to have ...
... look upon , as well as comfortable to live in ? Are they objects which we feel a national pride in , or would wish to point out to our visitors from other countries as symbolizing well with the state of civili- zation we profess to have ...
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... look of the cottages of our poor , as compared with the old cottages we often find of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , such as those of the villages of Gloucestershire , Northamptonshire , and Somerset ? On the whole , is the ...
... look of the cottages of our poor , as compared with the old cottages we often find of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , such as those of the villages of Gloucestershire , Northamptonshire , and Somerset ? On the whole , is the ...
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... Look at the vernacular cottage - building of the day , -not the ornate specimens which are seen near the park - gates of our nobility , nor those admirable at- tempts which are now happily becoming frequent , to raise the habitation of ...
... Look at the vernacular cottage - building of the day , -not the ornate specimens which are seen near the park - gates of our nobility , nor those admirable at- tempts which are now happily becoming frequent , to raise the habitation of ...
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... Look , again , at the rows of miserable houses in the suburbs of our country towns , and at the wretched creations of speculating builders in the neighbour- hood of London : are they not vile beyond descrip- tion ? Look at the houses ...
... Look , again , at the rows of miserable houses in the suburbs of our country towns , and at the wretched creations of speculating builders in the neighbour- hood of London : are they not vile beyond descrip- tion ? Look at the houses ...
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... look back at what we have already achieved , and our courage need not fail us . The first thing in preparing for more energetic exertion is to form a just estimate of our present position . As I said before , our course hitherto has ...
... look back at what we have already achieved , and our courage need not fail us . The first thing in preparing for more energetic exertion is to form a just estimate of our present position . As I said before , our course hitherto has ...
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Página 117 - ... whenever it finds occasion for change in its form or purpose, it submits to it without the slightest sense of loss either to its unity or majesty, — subtle and flexible like a fiery serpent, but ever attentive to the voice of the charmer.
Página 141 - Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness : he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
Página 287 - Handbook of Architecture. Being a Concise and Popular Account of the Different Styles prevailing in all Ages and Countries in the World. With a Description of the most remarkable Buildings.
Página 119 - I am quite assured that all the irregularities that are so beautiful in ancient architecture are the result of certain necessary difficulties, and were never purposely designed ; for to make a building inconvenient for the sake of obtaining irregularity would be scarcely less ridiculous than preparing working drawings for a new ruin. But all these inconsistencies have arisen from this great error, — the plans of buildings are designed to suit the elevation, instead of the elevation being made subservient...
Página 118 - ... not masked or concealed under one monotonous front, but by their variety in form and outline increasing the effect of the building.
Página 118 - An architect should exhibit his skill by turning the difficulties which occur in raising an elevation from a convenient plan into so many picturesque beauties; and this constitutes the great difference between the principles of classic and pointed domestic architecture. In the former he would be compelled to devise expedients to conceal these irregularities; in the latter he has only to beautify them.
Página 4 - It is not too much to say that the ruling theology of the Church of England in the latter half of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century was...
Página 117 - Undefined in its slope of roof, height of shaft, breadth of arch, or disposition of ground plan, it can shrink into a turret, expand into a hall, coil into a staircase, or spring into a spire, with undegraded grace and unexhausted energy...