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... , but the artistic progress , the æsthetic culture , and the refined enjoyments of a people ; -an art which is the eldest of the three , and the guardian and encourager of her sisters , an art that has recorded in stone and.
... , but the artistic progress , the æsthetic culture , and the refined enjoyments of a people ; -an art which is the eldest of the three , and the guardian and encourager of her sisters , an art that has recorded in stone and.
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George Godwin. sisters , an art that has recorded in stone and marble the thoughts and doings of nations , and studded the world with objects of beauty , places of reverence , and awakeners of sentiment . The various shapes that ...
George Godwin. sisters , an art that has recorded in stone and marble the thoughts and doings of nations , and studded the world with objects of beauty , places of reverence , and awakeners of sentiment . The various shapes that ...
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... Stones of memorial - The ark - Druidical works - Stonehenge , pp . 1 --- 15 . LETTER II . Stonehenge continued - Abury - Serpent - worship - Cromlechs- Babylon - Tower of Babel ; type of many monuments — Assyria— Nineveh , pp . 16—27 ...
... Stones of memorial - The ark - Druidical works - Stonehenge , pp . 1 --- 15 . LETTER II . Stonehenge continued - Abury - Serpent - worship - Cromlechs- Babylon - Tower of Babel ; type of many monuments — Assyria— Nineveh , pp . 16—27 ...
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... stone upon another to form a building . But there is a second and totally different point of view whence architecture is seen to afford matter of interest on which the most refined and powerful intellect may exercise itself , and which ...
... stone upon another to form a building . But there is a second and totally different point of view whence architecture is seen to afford matter of interest on which the most refined and powerful intellect may exercise itself , and which ...
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... stone by the contemporaries of the Pharaohs , which have exercised strong influence on society , remain to us almost uninjured . How powerful are the images which they raise ! A link in a great chain , they serve by association to ...
... stone by the contemporaries of the Pharaohs , which have exercised strong influence on society , remain to us almost uninjured . How powerful are the images which they raise ! A link in a great chain , they serve by association to ...
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Page 189 - 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 35 - Time sadly overcometh all things, and is now dominant, and sitteth upon a sphinx, and looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes, while his sister Oblivion reclineth semisomnous on a pyramid, gloriously triumphing, making puzzles of Titanian erections, and turning old glories into dreams. History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller as he paceth amazedly through those deserts asketh of her, who builded them ? and she mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not.
Page 71 - And yet how lovely in thine age of woe, Land of lost gods and godlike men, art thou!
Page 103 - But when the rising moon begins to climb Its topmost arch, and gently pauses there ; When the stars twinkle through the loops of time, And the low night-breeze waves along the air The...
Page 21 - Behold yon huge And unhewn sphere of living adamant, Which, poised by magic, rests its central weight On yonder pointed rock : firm as it seems, Such is its strange and virtuous property, It moves obsequious to the gentlest touch Of him whose breast is pure ; but to a traitor, Though e'en a giant's prowess nerved his arm, It stands as fixed as Snowdon.
Page 156 - Streaming from off the sun like seraph's wings, Now yawns all desolate: now loud, now fainter, The gale sweeps through its fretwork, and oft sings The owl his anthem, where the silenced quire Lie with their hallelujahs quench'd like fire.
Page 47 - Memphis, was buried one hundred and thirty feet below the mound surface. Who knows but that the greater part of old Memphis, and of other glorious cities, lies almost unharmed under the sand? Who can say what armies of sphinxes, what sentinels of colossi, might start up on the banks of the river, or come forth from the hill sides of the interior, when the cloud of sand had been wafted away?
Page 30 - Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat, 12 And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit...
Page 36 - Dupin says, that if it were required to know how long a time they would take to cut the stones and move them from the quarries to the pyramid, a very few days would...
Page 103 - It will not bear the brightness of the day, Which streams too much on all years, man, have reft away.