Domestic Architecture: Containing a History of the Science, and the Principles of Designing Public Edifices, Private Dwelling-houses ... With Some Observations on Rural Residences, Their Situation and Scenery; and Instructions on the Art of Laying Out and Imbellishing GroundsG. Virtue, 1841 - 342페이지 |
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... Greek writers attribute this wonderful rise to two queens , Semiramis , who lived before him , and Nitocris , who reigned after him . But the native historian Berosus , together with Megasthenes and Abydenus , expressly attribute it to ...
... Greek writers attribute this wonderful rise to two queens , Semiramis , who lived before him , and Nitocris , who reigned after him . But the native historian Berosus , together with Megasthenes and Abydenus , expressly attribute it to ...
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... Greeks and Romans were also built with flat roofs , so that we read of their walking and taking the air upon them , and also standing there to see the show and public processions . Indeed , the custom of sleeping on the house - top was ...
... Greeks and Romans were also built with flat roofs , so that we read of their walking and taking the air upon them , and also standing there to see the show and public processions . Indeed , the custom of sleeping on the house - top was ...
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... Greeks afterwards imitated in the well - known labyrinth of Crete , by Dædalus . Herodotus , lib . ii . p . 148 , attributes the construction of the labyrinth at Egypt to the twelve kings whe reigned at the same time , about six hundred ...
... Greeks afterwards imitated in the well - known labyrinth of Crete , by Dædalus . Herodotus , lib . ii . p . 148 , attributes the construction of the labyrinth at Egypt to the twelve kings whe reigned at the same time , about six hundred ...
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... Greeks in after times derived their triglyphs.§ The bright sun ever riding over their wide plains , was portrayed above their temple doors , as sym- bolical of the presiding genius of the land , and not unfrequently associated with the ...
... Greeks in after times derived their triglyphs.§ The bright sun ever riding over their wide plains , was portrayed above their temple doors , as sym- bolical of the presiding genius of the land , and not unfrequently associated with the ...
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... Greeks as original inventors and refiners of taste , of whose architecture we have soon to treat . Now there can be no doubt as to the pyramids of the Egyptians , that the imposing effect and sublimity of these piles are incidental ...
... Greeks as original inventors and refiners of taste , of whose architecture we have soon to treat . Now there can be no doubt as to the pyramids of the Egyptians , that the imposing effect and sublimity of these piles are incidental ...
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270 페이지 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below, LXIII.
99 페이지 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
110 페이지 - He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills. They give drink to every beast of the field : the wild asses quench their thirst. By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.
328 페이지 - 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.
174 페이지 - When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model ; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection ; Which if we find outweighs ability, What do we then but draw anew the model In fewer offices, or at least desist To build at all...
46 페이지 - And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers : I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea : fur I have spoken it, saith the Lord God : and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
136 페이지 - And every one that heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand : and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
270 페이지 - I praise the Frenchman*, his remark was shrewd—. How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet.
286 페이지 - And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace...
167 페이지 - And may my humble dwelling stand Upon some chosen spot of land : A pond before full to the brim, Where cows may cool, and geese may swim; Behind, a green like velvet neat, Soft to the eye, and to the feet; Where od'rous plants in evening fair Breathe all around ambrosial air...