The Graphic & Historical Illustrator, Ed. by E.W. Brayley |
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... frequently can- not apply any epithet of classification to the mass of structures that are , indeed , mere brick boxes to hold human creatures . If the praise of convenience be claimed for the Italian and Greek modes , it would be ...
... frequently can- not apply any epithet of classification to the mass of structures that are , indeed , mere brick boxes to hold human creatures . If the praise of convenience be claimed for the Italian and Greek modes , it would be ...
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... frequent distri- bution , -a distribution which , while it is always at- tended with brilliancy of effect , is ... frequently borrowed from architecture , we find very sparing attempts at shadow , the whole object being usually ...
... frequent distri- bution , -a distribution which , while it is always at- tended with brilliancy of effect , is ... frequently borrowed from architecture , we find very sparing attempts at shadow , the whole object being usually ...
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... frequently injured by displaying too much of modern art ; the work by being too highly finished , and that in few pieces , often loses the glittering effect that attends its more simple prototype . An additional precaution to be ...
... frequently injured by displaying too much of modern art ; the work by being too highly finished , and that in few pieces , often loses the glittering effect that attends its more simple prototype . An additional precaution to be ...
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... frequently assumed . To answer the purposes of har- mony , a Grecian interior undoubtedly requires that any accessories of this kind should be chaste , simple , quiet , and dignified , and , in richness , suited to the more or less ...
... frequently assumed . To answer the purposes of har- mony , a Grecian interior undoubtedly requires that any accessories of this kind should be chaste , simple , quiet , and dignified , and , in richness , suited to the more or less ...
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... frequently exhibit designs that may be studied with advantage by the architect , and in ex- pressing my admiration of Turner , I wish to avoid the appearance of advocating that servile imitation , which an antiquary is generally ...
... frequently exhibit designs that may be studied with advantage by the architect , and in ex- pressing my admiration of Turner , I wish to avoid the appearance of advocating that servile imitation , which an antiquary is generally ...
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Page 218 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...
Page 328 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites ; and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms...
Page 71 - How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
Page 72 - Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
Page 72 - Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale : for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance : and he called the pillar after his own name : and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.
Page 229 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Page 114 - In taking two stations having the same value, the one to the north and the other to the south of...
Page 71 - Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place ! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
Page 227 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 225 - And within a little space they went to London, and they dug a great ditch on the south side, and dragged their ships to the west side of the bridge...