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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... equal in quantity of silver to sixteen pounds of our money , and in efficacy to one hundred and sixty . This is certainly a sufficient proof of the meanness of those buildings . Even the structures of defence in Wales , which these ...
... equal in quantity of silver to sixteen pounds of our money , and in efficacy to one hundred and sixty . This is certainly a sufficient proof of the meanness of those buildings . Even the structures of defence in Wales , which these ...
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... equal in comfort to a modern cottage , yet rising proudly eminent above the rest , where the Saxon lord , surrounded by his faithful retainers , enjoyed a rude and solitary independence , owning no supe- rior but his sovereign ...
... equal in comfort to a modern cottage , yet rising proudly eminent above the rest , where the Saxon lord , surrounded by his faithful retainers , enjoyed a rude and solitary independence , owning no supe- rior but his sovereign ...
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... equal distribution of wealth ; much of which was anxiously applied to the decorations of the newly - erected mansions , which it was no longer necessary to obtain a licence from the king to build . This important change in society gave ...
... equal distribution of wealth ; much of which was anxiously applied to the decorations of the newly - erected mansions , which it was no longer necessary to obtain a licence from the king to build . This important change in society gave ...
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... equal judgment has been shewn in the choice of an Editor , to whose well - known pen the Biographies , the Descriptions , and Anecdotes are confided . The pictorial powers of Bartlett , Allom , and Creswick , have lately been manifested ...
... equal judgment has been shewn in the choice of an Editor , to whose well - known pen the Biographies , the Descriptions , and Anecdotes are confided . The pictorial powers of Bartlett , Allom , and Creswick , have lately been manifested ...
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... equal in command over com- modities to £ 4,000 at present . But this income was comparatively free from taxation , and its expenditure heightened by the services of his villiens : such a person , however , must have been among the most ...
... equal in command over com- modities to £ 4,000 at present . But this income was comparatively free from taxation , and its expenditure heightened by the services of his villiens : such a person , however , must have been among the most ...
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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...