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... imitation of any erections of the old world . But these instances , whether they did not go beyond this rude ap- proximation to the arch , or attained its form without its mecha- nical construction , or succeeded in developing the ...
... imitation of any erections of the old world . But these instances , whether they did not go beyond this rude ap- proximation to the arch , or attained its form without its mecha- nical construction , or succeeded in developing the ...
Page 44
... imitation of a trunk or a tent - pole could hardly assume any but the cylin- drical form ; and when the rock was hewn out , or when the mass of wall between two openings began to be reduced into more graceful proportions , the same form ...
... imitation of a trunk or a tent - pole could hardly assume any but the cylin- drical form ; and when the rock was hewn out , or when the mass of wall between two openings began to be reduced into more graceful proportions , the same form ...
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... imitation , but to analogous origin . Without dogmatically asserting that either people has borrowed from the other , still less pretending to decide which civilization is the more original of the two , it can hardly be denied that a ...
... imitation , but to analogous origin . Without dogmatically asserting that either people has borrowed from the other , still less pretending to decide which civilization is the more original of the two , it can hardly be denied that a ...
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... imitation of the forms employed by them , in which apparent arches and even apparent vaults are common , but whose real construction is always formed on the horizontal principle . Of the antiquity of the Hindoo buildings much has been ...
... imitation of the forms employed by them , in which apparent arches and even apparent vaults are common , but whose real construction is always formed on the horizontal principle . Of the antiquity of the Hindoo buildings much has been ...
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... imitations of the beams of a wooden roof . Yet there seems to be no necessity for this supposition ; it is evidently much more natural to mark the lines of the colonnades by this sort of pro- jection , than to place an unrelieved flat ...
... imitations of the beams of a wooden roof . Yet there seems to be no necessity for this supposition ; it is evidently much more natural to mark the lines of the colonnades by this sort of pro- jection , than to place an unrelieved flat ...
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abacus aisles ancient appears apse Arabian arcades archi architects architrave basilicas beauty buildings Byzantine Byzantine architecture capital Cathedral century chancel character choir Christian churches classical clerestory columns construction Corinthian cupola decoration distinct dome doorway Doric Doric order Early Gothic Egypt Egyptian England enriched entablature erected examples excavations exhibit existence feature flat foliage gables genuine German Gothic architecture Gothic art Grecian Grecian architecture Greece Greek heathen height idea imitation Italian Italy jambs latter less Lombard magnificent massive monuments mouldings nations nave Norman occur octagonal origin ornament outline Oxford Cathedral Pelasgian perfect period Perpendicular pier pier-arches pilasters pillars pointed arch portico Price principle proportion pure remains remarkable Roman Roman architecture Romanesque Rome roof round arch rude Saracens Saxon sculpture seems shafts sometimes spire splendour square stone structures style tecture temple tion tower tracery Transition triforium ture usually vaulting vertical wall whole
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Page 316 - The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone.
Page 315 - With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate, row and row, On ponderous columns, short and low, Built ere the art was known, By pointed aisle, and shafted stalk, The arcades of an alleyed walk To emulate in stone. On the deep walls the heathen Dane Had poured his impious rage in vain ; And needful was such strength to these, EXposed t'o the tempestuous seas, Scourged by the winds...