The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Volume 4J. Murray, 1831 |
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... arches , the clustered co- lumns , and intelligible yet grotesque carvings of the mouldering edifice before me , I beheld but the barbarous perversion of what was once grand and classic ; I could as soon have believed that 34 THE ...
... arches , the clustered co- lumns , and intelligible yet grotesque carvings of the mouldering edifice before me , I beheld but the barbarous perversion of what was once grand and classic ; I could as soon have believed that 34 THE ...
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... arch , accompanied with the slender proportions of Gothic architecture ; -in Asia Minor , Syria , Ara- bia , Persia ; from the neighbourhood of the Cas- pian through the wilds of Tartary : in the various kingdoms , and throughout the ...
... arch , accompanied with the slender proportions of Gothic architecture ; -in Asia Minor , Syria , Ara- bia , Persia ; from the neighbourhood of the Cas- pian through the wilds of Tartary : in the various kingdoms , and throughout the ...
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... arches , the light clustered co- lumns , the capitals of curling foliage , the fretted tabernacles and vaultings , and a profusion of sta- tues , which constitute the good Gothic style , toge- ther with decreasing and flying buttresses ...
... arches , the light clustered co- lumns , the capitals of curling foliage , the fretted tabernacles and vaultings , and a profusion of sta- tues , which constitute the good Gothic style , toge- ther with decreasing and flying buttresses ...
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... arches , by some undulating zig - zags on certain old fabrics , and by a very few other characteristics , all evi- dences of ignorant or barbarous times . The pointed arch - that peculiar of Gothic architecture -was certainly intended ...
... arches , by some undulating zig - zags on certain old fabrics , and by a very few other characteristics , all evi- dences of ignorant or barbarous times . The pointed arch - that peculiar of Gothic architecture -was certainly intended ...
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... . The insulated examples which he has given - of fluted pilasters and columns , perpendicular and spiral- of arches intersecting one another , so as to form what he calls true Gothic confusion - and the in- 42 THE BRITISH ARCHITECTS .
... . The insulated examples which he has given - of fluted pilasters and columns , perpendicular and spiral- of arches intersecting one another , so as to form what he calls true Gothic confusion - and the in- 42 THE BRITISH ARCHITECTS .
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Page 316 - 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.
Page 316 - Fill half the land with Imitating Fools; Who random drawings from your sheets shall take, And of one beauty many blunders make...
Page 44 - The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand ' Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
Page 175 - God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above ten thousand houses all in one flame ; the noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children...
Page 175 - I know not by what despondency or fate, they hardly stirred to quench it, so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at all attempting to save even their goods ; such a strange consternation there was upon them...
Page 65 - Those whoNhave seen the exact accounts in records, of the charge of the fabrics of some of our cathedrals, near four hundred years old, cannot but have a great esteem for their economy, and admire how soon they erected such lofty structures.
Page 316 - You, too, proceed ! make falling arts your care, Erect new wonders, and the old repair ; Jones and Palladio to themselves restore And be whate'er Vitruvius was before : Till kings call forth th...
Page 205 - we are told an incident was taken notice of by some people as a memorable omen : when the surveyor in person had set out upon the place the dimensions of the great dome, and fixed upon the centre, a common labourer was ordered to bring a flat stone from the heaps of rubbish (such as should first come to hand) to be laid for a mark and direction to the masons : the stone, which was immediately brought and laid down for that purpose, happened to be a piece of a gravestone, with nothing remaining of...
Page 273 - I mean to speak of him in the language of our art. To speak then of Vanbrugh in the language of a painter, he had originality of invention, he understood light and shadow, and had great skill in composition.
Page 297 - He was not only consulted for furniture, as frames of pictures, glasses, tables, chairs, etc., but for plate, for a barge, for a cradle. And so impetuous was fashion, that two great ladies prevailed on him to make designs for their birthday gowns. The one he dressed in a petticoat decorated with columns of the five orders ; the other like a bronze, in a copper-coloured satin, with ornaments of gold.