Memoir of George Edmund Street, R.A., 1824-1881J. Murray, 1888 - 441 Seiten |
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Seite 163 - ... should be called the common-sense style. This, never having attained the completeness which debars all further progress, as was the case in the purely Classical or in the perfected Gothic styles, not only admits of, but insists on, progress. It courts borrowing principles and forms from either. It can use either pillars or pinnacles as may be required. It admits of towers, and spires, or domes. It can either indulge in plain walls, or pierce them with innumerable windows. It knows no guide but...
Seite 403 - Wilars de Honecort salutes you, and implores all who labour at the different kinds of works contained in this book, to pray for his soul and hold him in remembrance." Amongst his drawings from buildings we have the north-west tower of Laon — " I have been in many countries, but in no place have I seen a tower equal to that of Laon...
Seite 130 - A powerfully imaginative mind seizes and combines at the same instant all the important ideas of its poem or picture, and while it works with one of them, it is at the same instant working with and modifying all in their relation to it and never losing sight of their bearings on each other...
Seite 39 - Dined with the Streets. Our amusement was three-handed whist. Both Mr. and Mrs. Street very kind. On every point of public interest he and I differ, but it does not affect our apparent esteem for one another. I hold him in very great respect, — indeed, admiration. He has first-rate talent in his profession as architect. He will be a great man in act, — he is so in character already.
Seite 282 - He believed in his own work, and in what he was doing at the time, absolutely; and the charm of his work is that when looking at it you may be certain that it is entirely his own, and this applies to the smallest detail as to the general conception. I am certain that during the whole time I was with him I never designed one single moulding.
Seite 441 - Cornelius Nepos. With Notes, by Oscar Browning. MA, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Assistant Master at Eton College. Ext. fcap.
Seite 139 - The Materials used in the Abbey and at Stone are as nearly as possible the same. The wrought stonework is executed in Caen stone and Gatton stone, and a great deal of chalk is used for wall-lining and groining, and all the shafts are of marble. V. Finally, the same general system of proportion is observed in the Minster and the village Church. In both, the width from the aisle walls to the centre of the columns is equal to half the width of the nave. At Westminster the height is given by three equilateral...
Seite 345 - ... principles of design in mediaeval architecture; which may lead to the discovery of others ; and enable us to make some progress in this interesting subject, the theory of mediaeval architecture: not less curious and illustrative of the ideas of those days, than of the all-important theory of the Art itself. The perception of proportion, the fundamental element of the beautiful in architecture, seems to be the last acquirement of the student instead of the first. We begin by admiring ornaments,...
Seite 345 - ... members of it are measures of the whole, so the ancients have, with great propriety, determined that in all perfect works, each part should be some aliquot part of the whole ; and since they direct, that this be observed in all works, it must be most strictly attended to in temples of the gods, wherein the faults as well as the beauties remain to the end of time.