Holly's Country Seats ; Modern Dwellings1863 - Architecture, Domestic - 390 pages |
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... serves to illustrate the spirit which animated the Grecian architect . But it is in ancient Rome we must look for the greatest variety and magnificence in architecture . In the time of Romulus , HOLLY'S COUNTRY SEATS . 5.
... serves to illustrate the spirit which animated the Grecian architect . But it is in ancient Rome we must look for the greatest variety and magnificence in architecture . In the time of Romulus , HOLLY'S COUNTRY SEATS . 5.
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... serve as an illustration of some principles of Roman architecture , as distinguished from Grecian . Its decorations are of the Corinthian order , and the interior is about 140 feet in height and diameter . The roof is vaulted ; and it ...
... serve as an illustration of some principles of Roman architecture , as distinguished from Grecian . Its decorations are of the Corinthian order , and the interior is about 140 feet in height and diameter . The roof is vaulted ; and it ...
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... serves only to increase its solid- ity and improve its appearance . What can be more beautiful and pic- turesque than an old stone edifice , overgrown with moss and shaded by noble trees , all indicating that time has but improved the ...
... serves only to increase its solid- ity and improve its appearance . What can be more beautiful and pic- turesque than an old stone edifice , overgrown with moss and shaded by noble trees , all indicating that time has but improved the ...
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... serve the double purpose of a Gate Lodge and Farm House , though the drawing was rather intended for the former , and to represent an entrance to grounds on which we pro- pose to erect a mansion . The architecture is of simple character ...
... serve the double purpose of a Gate Lodge and Farm House , though the drawing was rather intended for the former , and to represent an entrance to grounds on which we pro- pose to erect a mansion . The architecture is of simple character ...
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... serve as a protection to the sides of the house , thus forming a useful and ornamental appen- dage , often cheaper than brackets . The ballustrades of perforated plank , around the balconies and terraces , partake of the style of the ...
... serve as a protection to the sides of the house , thus forming a useful and ornamental appen- dage , often cheaper than brackets . The ballustrades of perforated plank , around the balconies and terraces , partake of the style of the ...
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Page 58 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 160 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Page 73 - ... esteem. Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. The plainest row of books that cloth or paper ever covered is more significant of refinement than the most elaborately carved etagere or sideboard. Give us a house furnished with books rather than furniture. Both, if you can, but books at any rate...
Page 106 - A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family ; he cheats them. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading, and grows upon it...
Page 107 - A little library growing larger every year, is an honorable part of a young mnn'a history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.
Page 131 - ... so that the smoke burst out, and the tower itself was cloven to that degree, as to show visibly some broad chinks, whereupon the enemy surrendered.
Page 72 - WE form judgments of men from little things about their houses, of which the owner, perhaps, never thinks. In earlier years, when travelling in the West, where taverns were scarce, and in some places unknown, and every settler's house was a house of entertainment, it was a matter of some importance and some experience to select wisely where you would put up.
Page 8 - England from the middle of the eleventh to the end of the twelfth century.
Page 73 - CHILDREN LEARN TO READ BY BEING IN THE PRESENCE OF BOOKS. THE LOVE OF KNOWLEDGE COMES WITH READING AND GROWS UPON IT. AND THE LOVE OF KNOWLEDGE, IN A YOUNG MIND, IS ALMOST A WARRANT AGAINST THE INFERIOR EXCITEMENT OF PASSIONS AND VICES.
Page 106 - ... chairs, and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind. Is it not pitiable to see a man growing rich, augmenting the comforts of home, and lavishing money on ostentatious upholstery, upon the table, upon everything but what the soul needs? We know of many and many a rich man's house where it would not be safe to ask for the commonest English classics. A few garish annuals on the table, a few pictorial monstrosities, together with the stock religious...