The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Volume 4J. Murray, 1831 |
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... less true that they tended to the good of mankind . The art in which they excelled has been stigmatized as barbarous by learned men ; and the uses to which it was dedicated have induced Walpole to say , " that , stripped of its altars ...
... less true that they tended to the good of mankind . The art in which they excelled has been stigmatized as barbarous by learned men ; and the uses to which it was dedicated have induced Walpole to say , " that , stripped of its altars ...
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... less further to refute the notions of those who refer the origin of the style to the in- vention of English artists . " To the opinion of these two distinguished authorities , we may oppose that of a poet , whose learning was , as is ...
... less further to refute the notions of those who refer the origin of the style to the in- vention of English artists . " To the opinion of these two distinguished authorities , we may oppose that of a poet , whose learning was , as is ...
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... less ingeniously supported by his companion in travel , Horace Walpole . " When men , " says that wittiest of virtuosos , " inquire who invented Gothic buildings ? they might as well ask who invented bad Latin ? The former was a ...
... less ingeniously supported by his companion in travel , Horace Walpole . " When men , " says that wittiest of virtuosos , " inquire who invented Gothic buildings ? they might as well ask who invented bad Latin ? The former was a ...
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... less strength at the springings , and are , moreover , supported by the arches of the side aisles , and by a profusion of solid and open buttresses - in themselves a great ornament as well as stay to the structure . One might almost ...
... less strength at the springings , and are , moreover , supported by the arches of the side aisles , and by a profusion of solid and open buttresses - in themselves a great ornament as well as stay to the structure . One might almost ...
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... excellence , save a want of corresponding stateliness in the great door - way , and in those of the aisles . Nor is it less admirable in sectional construction than in outward elevation . The buttresses WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM . 53.
... excellence , save a want of corresponding stateliness in the great door - way , and in those of the aisles . Nor is it less admirable in sectional construction than in outward elevation . The buttresses WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM . 53.
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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.