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... tracery of windows , the point which has always most especially attracted my own attention , I have said no more than was absolutely necessary . This was because I have in hand , and have nearly completed , a minute treatise on that ...
... tracery of windows , the point which has always most especially attracted my own attention , I have said no more than was absolutely necessary . This was because I have in hand , and have nearly completed , a minute treatise on that ...
Page xxvii
... tracery- objections brought against the Continuous - really lie against late Decorated as well as against Perpendicular - horizontal line - principle of contrast - carried out in low roofs - towers - four - centred arches where ...
... tracery- objections brought against the Continuous - really lie against late Decorated as well as against Perpendicular - horizontal line - principle of contrast - carried out in low roofs - towers - four - centred arches where ...
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... tracery - wooden roofs- trefoil roof - low roof - coved and flat roofs - Winchester Cathedral- advantage of great length - Gloucester - its inferiority - Canterbury— King's College Chapel - French Flamboyant - its capabilities — its ...
... tracery - wooden roofs- trefoil roof - low roof - coved and flat roofs - Winchester Cathedral- advantage of great length - Gloucester - its inferiority - Canterbury— King's College Chapel - French Flamboyant - its capabilities — its ...
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... tracery , the countless hues that sparkle from roof , and chapiter , and wall , and window , recalls no work of man indeed , no tent , or hut , or cavern , but the sublimest temple of natural religion , the awful gloom of the deep ...
... tracery , the countless hues that sparkle from roof , and chapiter , and wall , and window , recalls no work of man indeed , no tent , or hut , or cavern , but the sublimest temple of natural religion , the awful gloom of the deep ...
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... tracery , as may be seen at Peterborough and Romsey . They are of very different proportions , being some- times very long and narrow , and at other times of great breadth ; and they afford equal diversities in the amount of enrichment ...
... tracery , as may be seen at Peterborough and Romsey . They are of very different proportions , being some- times very long and narrow , and at other times of great breadth ; and they afford equal diversities in the amount of enrichment ...
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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...