Domestic Architecture: Containing a History of the Science, and the Principles of Designing Public Edifices, Private Dwelling-houses ... With Some Observations on Rural Residences, Their Situation and Scenery; and Instructions on the Art of Laying Out and Imbellishing GroundsG. Virtue, 1841 - 342 Seiten |
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... Ceilings . 200 ARCHITECTURAL CONSIDERATIONS . In the Interior of Houses , what to be materially con- sidered ARCHITECTURAL CAUTIONS . Faulty parts in the Interior of Houses that are to be avoided • DISSERTATION XXXIV . The Science of ...
... Ceilings . 200 ARCHITECTURAL CONSIDERATIONS . In the Interior of Houses , what to be materially con- sidered ARCHITECTURAL CAUTIONS . Faulty parts in the Interior of Houses that are to be avoided • DISSERTATION XXXIV . The Science of ...
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... ceiling and other parts of the room were richly decorated . The walls on the west side of the Cavædium and Crypto - porticus , are probably remains of the Triclinia Hyberna , ( winter supper - rooms ) and baths , as most of them have ...
... ceiling and other parts of the room were richly decorated . The walls on the west side of the Cavædium and Crypto - porticus , are probably remains of the Triclinia Hyberna , ( winter supper - rooms ) and baths , as most of them have ...
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... ceilings . ) Their fixed windows precluded the free admission of air when necessary , while it found its way abundantly through the crevices in the walls , when its exclusion might have been desirable . PUBLISHED BY GEORGE VIRTUE , IVY ...
... ceilings . ) Their fixed windows precluded the free admission of air when necessary , while it found its way abundantly through the crevices in the walls , when its exclusion might have been desirable . PUBLISHED BY GEORGE VIRTUE , IVY ...
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... ceilings highly ornamented in plaster , representing dining - tables , set out with all the various dishes , containing joints of meat , pies , fish , fowl , fruits , and various other edibles . One of this description may be seen at a ...
... ceilings highly ornamented in plaster , representing dining - tables , set out with all the various dishes , containing joints of meat , pies , fish , fowl , fruits , and various other edibles . One of this description may be seen at a ...
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... ceilings were also highly ornamented with various devices of scroll - work . ( See a print of Boughton Malherbe , in Kent , illustrating the olden time , which shows one of the most beautiful rooms , perhaps , in the kingdom . This was ...
... ceilings were also highly ornamented with various devices of scroll - work . ( See a print of Boughton Malherbe , in Kent , illustrating the olden time , which shows one of the most beautiful rooms , perhaps , in the kingdom . This was ...
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Seite 270 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below, LXIII.
Seite 99 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Seite 110 - He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills. They give drink to every beast of the field : the wild asses quench their thirst. By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.
Seite 328 - To build, to plant, whatever you intend. To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot; In all, let nature never be forgot.
Seite 174 - When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model ; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection ; Which if we find outweighs ability, What do we then but draw anew the model In fewer offices, or at least desist To build at all...
Seite 46 - And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers : I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea : fur I have spoken it, saith the Lord God : and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
Seite 136 - And every one that heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand : and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
Seite 270 - I praise the Frenchman*, his remark was shrewd—. How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet.
Seite 286 - And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace...
Seite 167 - And may my humble dwelling stand Upon some chosen spot of land : A pond before full to the brim, Where cows may cool, and geese may swim; Behind, a green like velvet neat, Soft to the eye, and to the feet; Where od'rous plants in evening fair Breathe all around ambrosial air...