 | University magazine - 1849 - 788 Seiten
...another eloquent passage, where Mr. Ruskin handles this subject with fine feeling and philosophy : — "For, indeed, the greatest glory of a building is...witness against men, in their quiet contrast with the transition character of all things, in the strength which, through the lapse of seasons and times,... | |
 | William Laxton - 1849 - 486 Seiten
...building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its age" — qiurre, its per cent-wye — "and in that deep sense of voicefulness, of stern...long been washed by the passing waves of humanity," &c., &c.! Of course this is, or ought to be, exceedingly fine, it being evidently intended to be so;... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 Seiten
...this our fathers did for us." For, indeed, the greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, or in its gold. Its glory is in its age, and in that...long been washed by the passing waves of humanity. VII. — TBS LAMP OP OBEDIENCE. It has been my endeavor to show how every form of noble architecture... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1872 - 500 Seiten
...this our fathers did for us." For, indeed, the greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, or in its gold. Its glory is in its age, and in that...long been washed by the passing waves of humanity. VII. THE LAMP OP OBEDIENCE. It has been my endeavor to show how every form of noble architecture is... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1872 - 500 Seiten
...this our fathers did for us." For, indeed, the greatest glory of a building is not ha its stones, or in its gold. Its glory is in its age, and in that...long been washed by the passing waves of humanity. VII. THE LAMP OF OBEDIENCE. It has been my endeavor to show how every form of noble architecture is... | |
 | James Roderick O'Flanagan - 1873 - 308 Seiten
...of a mother's kiss. I admire that fine sentiment of Ruskin's which says, " The glory of a building is in its age, and in that deep sense of voicefulness,...long been washed by the passing waves of humanity." In truth, every part of our family seat would have delighted Ruskin. The entrance gate was old and... | |
 | Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society - 1880 - 332 Seiten
...pleasure of making in the limited space of time at my disposal : — " The greatest glory of a building is in its age, and in that deep sense of voicefulness,...long been washed by the passing waves of humanity." If the Society now holding its Annual Meeting at Stroud has a local habitation and a name which would... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1878 - 578 Seiten
...itself the spirit of century after century. ' The glory of a building,' wrote Mr. Ruskin, long ago, ' is in its age, and in that deep sense of voicefulness,...that have long been washed by the passing waves of humanity.'2 It is the recognition of this historical value, the sense of this long growth from age... | |
 | 1882 - 202 Seiten
...age and in that deep sense of voicefulness, of stern watching, of mysterious sympathy, nay, even ot approval or condemnation, which we feel in walls that...long been washed by the passing waves of humanity. — Ruskin's " Seven Lamps." FLESH AS FOOD. I AM not going to broach a theory, but simply to gather... | |
 | 1884 - 804 Seiten
...voicefulness, of stern watching, of mysterious sympathy, nay. even of approval or condemnation, wliich we feel in walls that have long been washed by the passing waves of humanity." Les Halles, the great quadrilateral build ing from which the belfry rises, was begun, ll, ,Л Paul... | |
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For, indeed, the greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep sense of voicefulness, of stern watching, of mysterious sympathy, nay, even of approval or condemnation, which we feel in walls... 
