Principles of design in architecture, a series of letters to a friend1809 |
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Strana 3
... notice of any other building for religious ceremony . 1 CIVIL ARCHITECTURE appears to have arisen very early , with the multiplication of man- kind . According to the computation of the most authoritative chronologers , it was but about ...
... notice of any other building for religious ceremony . 1 CIVIL ARCHITECTURE appears to have arisen very early , with the multiplication of man- kind . According to the computation of the most authoritative chronologers , it was but about ...
Strana 4
... notice has been preserved in hiftory , is that extraordi- nary one , described in the account of the first city , the tower of Babel . The term tower generally implies military purpose , but none such is here any otherwise indicated ...
... notice has been preserved in hiftory , is that extraordi- nary one , described in the account of the first city , the tower of Babel . The term tower generally implies military purpose , but none such is here any otherwise indicated ...
Strana 14
... notice of historians and recorders of events , those who would trace the history of archi- tecture , must necessarily begin with them . That extraordinary public building , mentioned , in my first 14 PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN.
... notice of historians and recorders of events , those who would trace the history of archi- tecture , must necessarily begin with them . That extraordinary public building , mentioned , in my first 14 PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN.
Strana 16
... notice of any particular edifice , in any part of the world , whence the manner of building can be in- ferred , during the lapse , according to the generally received chronology , of more than ten centuries . Then the temple of Dagon ...
... notice of any particular edifice , in any part of the world , whence the manner of building can be in- ferred , during the lapse , according to the generally received chronology , of more than ten centuries . Then the temple of Dagon ...
Strana 17
... notice . Less than a century and half then brings us to a period that , for so early an age , may be called luminous . Two buildings remain described , in considerable detail , which had great fame in their own and in all following ages ...
... notice . Less than a century and half then brings us to a period that , for so early an age , may be called luminous . Two buildings remain described , in considerable detail , which had great fame in their own and in all following ages ...
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admiration advantageous altogether antiquity appears Arabian archi architect architrave Athens Babylonia beautiful book of Kings brick building called capital castle cathedral character church colonnade columns common considerable convenience Corinthian cornice cottages decoration desired dome domestic Doric Doric order early edifice effect Egypt elegance England equally Europe example exterior extraordinary fancy Fashion Gothic grace grandeur Grecian architecture Grecian taste Grecian temple Greece Greeks ingenious Inigo Jones intablature interior architecture Ionic Italy judgement kind less LETTER lofty Lord Burlington magnificence material merit military monumental Norman object observed ornament palace palæstra perfection perhaps Phenicia picturesk pier pillar Plantagenet pointed arch portico principal proportions public favor purpose reckon reigns Roman architecture Rome roof saint Paul's saint Peter's Salisbury cathedral Saxon seems seen shaft simplicity splendid splendor stone style superior tecture tion triglyphs variety Vitruvius walls wanted whence Winchester cathedral wood
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Strana 158 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Strana 134 - CAITI.I. called the Queen's Oriel is remarkable for the fancy, luxuriance, and elegance of the workmanship. Nor is the contrivance of the little terraced garden below, considering the history of the times, a matter of small curiosity, where, though all the surrounding country were hostile, fresh air might be safely enjoyed ; and the commanding view of the singularly beautiful landscape around, from both that little herbary or garden, and the bay window or oriel, is so managed as to leave no doubt...
Strana 197 - Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici...
Strana 271 - I venture to deliver it as . my opinion that there are only two characters of buildings: the one may be called perpendicular, and the other horizontal. Under the first, I class all buildings erected in England before and during the early part of Queen Elizabeth's reign, whether deemed Saracenic, Saxon, Norman, or the Gothic of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries ; and even that peculiar kind called Queen Elizabeth's Gothic, in which turrets prevailed, though battlements were discarded and Grecian...
Strana 133 - Conway," observes an anonymous author, "what is called the Queen's Oriel is remarkable for the fancy, luxuriance, and elegance of the workmanship. Nor is the contrivance of the little terraced garden below, considering the history of the times, a matter of small curiosity, where, though all the surrounding country were hostile, fresh air might be safely enjoyed; and the commanding view of the singularly beautiful landscape around, from both that little herbary or garden, and the bay window or oriel...
Strana 258 - ... above may be increased, or must be diminished, according to circumstances. If a greater width of foundation be thought necessary, it must be gained by increasing the number of the footings, and not their width. The height of abutment, and span, and rise of arch, I suppose prescribed for the engineer.
Strana 86 - Instead of a mere sacristy for the priests, the term at which the pomp of processions ended, and in front of which, under the vault of the sky...
Strana 44 - Tis with our judgements as our watches, none Co just alike, but each believes his own.