A Critical Review of the Public Buildings: Statues, and Ornaments, in and about London and WestminsterJ. Wallis, 1783 - 209페이지 |
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123 페이지 - Unblam'd through life, lamented in thy end. Thefe are thy honours ! not that here thy buft Is mix'd with heroes, or with kings thy duft ; But that the Worthy and the Good fhall fay, Striking their penfive bofoms — Here lies GAY.
80 페이지 - This gate has been universally admired, and pronounced to be the most perfect piece of building that does honour to the name of Inigo Jones. It is planned in so exquisite a taste, formed of such equal and harmonious parts, and adorned with such proper and elegant decorations, that nothing can be censured or added.
7 페이지 - Tower, who is ufually of the higheft quality, as his poft at all coronations and other itatc ceremonies is of the utmoft confequence, having the crown and other regalia in his cuftody. He hath under him a lieutenant, and a deputy-lieutenant, commonly called governor, whofe...
122 페이지 - No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay : She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray.
52 페이지 - the world expected that the new work should not fall short of the old ; he was therefore obliged to comply with the humour of the age, and to raise another structure over the first cupola ; and this was a cone of brick, so built as to support a stone lantern of an elegant figure, and ending in ornaments of copper, gilt.
19 페이지 - ... end, and single at the other, there are twelve forcers : the second wheel, placed in the middle, has eight forcers ; and the third wheel sixteen forcers. In all fifty-two forcers. "One turn of the four wheels makes one hundred and fourteen strokes; and when the river is at best, the wheels go six times round in a minute, and but four and a half at middle water ; so that the number of strokes in a minute are six hundred and...
50 페이지 - Matthew is diftinguifhed by an Angel, St. Mark by a Lion, St. Luke by an Ox, and St. John by an Eagle.
202 페이지 - While hidden he, the prince himfelf, remains, 1165 And in a fecret vale his hoft conftrains. Thus oft th' Ichneumon, on the banks of Nile, Invades the deadly Afpic by a wile; While artfully his flender tail is play'd, The ferpent darts upon the dancing fhade ; 1179 Then t* :our, > c.
122 페이지 - As I foretold you, were all fpirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air ; And, like the bafelefs fabric of this vifion, The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The folemn temples, the great globe itfelf, Yea, all which it inherit, fhall diffolve ; And, like this infubftantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind ! We are fuch fluff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a Deep.