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Page ix
... never to be gratified ; these styles , like the nations among whom they arose , stand isolated and disconnected from each other , scarcely at all influencing the arts of other races . The true history , as a con- tinuous stream , of ...
... never to be gratified ; these styles , like the nations among whom they arose , stand isolated and disconnected from each other , scarcely at all influencing the arts of other races . The true history , as a con- tinuous stream , of ...
Page x
... never hesitated to criticize a building from engravings , with as little hesitation as if I had myself seen it , because in the case of the very many English churches which I have first studied in this manner , and after- wards visited ...
... never hesitated to criticize a building from engravings , with as little hesitation as if I had myself seen it , because in the case of the very many English churches which I have first studied in this manner , and after- wards visited ...
Page xi
... never lost the character of arts , they have never been reduced to matters of antiquarian or ecclesiolo- Poole's " History of Ecclesiastical Architecture in England , " was published after my manuscript was in the printer's hands . I ...
... never lost the character of arts , they have never been reduced to matters of antiquarian or ecclesiolo- Poole's " History of Ecclesiastical Architecture in England , " was published after my manuscript was in the printer's hands . I ...
Page xii
... never . be gained from the most complete collection of antiquarian facts . And where Mr. Hope fails us , Mr. Petit supplies his place . The strength of the former is in the history of Romanesque ; on the subdivisions of Gothic ...
... never . be gained from the most complete collection of antiquarian facts . And where Mr. Hope fails us , Mr. Petit supplies his place . The strength of the former is in the history of Romanesque ; on the subdivisions of Gothic ...
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... never taken a flight beyond accidence . and birch , looking aghast at the extended philology of the Comparative Grammar . On the other hand is a nobler race , the authors of the great ecclesiological movement ; the men who have fought ...
... never taken a flight beyond accidence . and birch , looking aghast at the extended philology of the Comparative Grammar . On the other hand is a nobler race , the authors of the great ecclesiological movement ; the men who have fought ...
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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...