The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Volume 4J. Murray, 1831 |
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... invention . Such were the characters and motives of the men who collected oral rumours , embellished improbable legends , and related wilful falsehoods , to darken the fame of one of the bene- factors of the human race . Of John the ...
... invention . Such were the characters and motives of the men who collected oral rumours , embellished improbable legends , and related wilful falsehoods , to darken the fame of one of the bene- factors of the human race . Of John the ...
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... invention in composing , his care in expressing , his judgment in correcting , and have the pleasure of tracing the several steps by which the whole piece has been brought to perfection ; and it sometimes also happens , that we have rea ...
... invention in composing , his care in expressing , his judgment in correcting , and have the pleasure of tracing the several steps by which the whole piece has been brought to perfection ; and it sometimes also happens , that we have rea ...
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... them . They then fell into a new mode of their own invention . The quarries of great marble by which the vanquished nations of Syria , Egypt , and all the East had been supplied for columns , archi- WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM . 37.
... them . They then fell into a new mode of their own invention . The quarries of great marble by which the vanquished nations of Syria , Egypt , and all the East had been supplied for columns , archi- WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM . 37.
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... invention ; the nature of the architecture requires immense blocks ; a great temple cannot be built of little pieces of marble ; the lofty columns , massy architraves , long friezes , and projecting entablatures demand blocks of many ...
... invention ; the nature of the architecture requires immense blocks ; a great temple cannot be built of little pieces of marble ; the lofty columns , massy architraves , long friezes , and projecting entablatures demand blocks of many ...
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... invention of this splendid architecture . They are , in character and handling , wholly subordinate to the building ; as much so , as the fruit is to the tree which bears it ; yet they are so successfully imagined , that they blend with ...
... invention of this splendid architecture . They are , in character and handling , wholly subordinate to the building ; as much so , as the fruit is to the tree which bears it ; yet they are so successfully imagined , that they blend with ...
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Page 312 - 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 312 - You show us Rome was glorious, not profuse, And pompous buildings once were things of use; Yet shall, my lord, your just, your noble rules, Fill half the land with imitating fools ; Who random drawings from your sheets shall take; And of one beauty many blunders make...
Page 313 - Till kings call forth the ideas of your mind, (Proud to accomplish what such hands design'd) Bid harbours open, public ways extend, Bid temples worthier of the God ascend, Bid the broad arch the dangerous flood contain, The mole projected break the roaring main ; Back to his bounds their subject sea command, And roll obedient rivers through the land : These honours peace to happy Britain brings; These are imperial works, and worthy kings.
Page 46 - 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 181 - 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 299 - He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden. He felt the delicious contrast of hill and valley changing imperceptibly into each other, tasted the beauty of the gentle swell, or concave scoop, and remarked how loose groves crowned an easy eminence with happy ornament, and while they called in the distant view 313 between their graceful stems, removed and extended the perspective by delusive comparison.
Page 181 - 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 92 - First, for the scene, was drawn a Umtifadjap (landscape) consisting of small woods, and here and there a void place filled with huntings ; which falling, an artificial sea was seen to shoot forth, as if it flowed to the land, raised with waves which seemed to move, and in some places the billows to break, as imitating that orderly disorder which is common in nature.
Page 181 - ... goods, such a strange consternation there was upon them ; so as it burned both in breadth and length, the churches, public halls, exchange, hospitals, monuments and ornaments...
Page 265 - 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.