Remarks Accompanying the Prints of the Banqueting House, Whitehall: (designed by Inigo Jones, 1619-1622)John Weale, 1849 - 78 Seiten |
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Seite 57 - unto the channel!, is pitched upright a great stone called London Stone, fixed in the ground very deep, fastened with bars of iron, and otherwise so strongly set, that, if cartes do runne against it through negligence, the wheeles be broken, and the stone
Seite 11 - is elegant and well folded, and the whole composition is excellently grouped and drawn with precision. It is formed of very small pieces of glass of the most beautiful colours and of various shades. The hair, the small leaves which ornament the masks, and the eyebrows are expressed so delicately as almost to escape observation.
Seite 57 - stone was there set, the very time when, or other memory hereof, is there none; but that the same hath long continued there is manifest, namely since (or rather before) the time of the Conquest, for in the
Seite 59 - Probably this might in some degree have imitated the Milliarium Aureum at Constantinople, which was not in the form of a pillar, as at Rome, but an eminent building, for under its roof (according to Cedrenus and Suidas,) stood the statues of Constantine and Helena, Trajan, an equestrian statue of Hadrian,
Seite 46 - that in ancient times the greater part of the City was built of wood, and the houses were covered with straw and stubble, and the like. Hence it happened that when a single house had caught fire the greater part of the City was destroyed through such a conflagration, a thing that took place in the first year of
Seite 65 - This watercourse, having divers bridges, was afterwards vaulted over with brick, and paved level with the streets and lanes wherethrough it passed; and since that also houses have been built thereon, so that the course of Walbrook is now hidden under ground, and thereby hardly known.
Seite 51 - whereas the watercourse of Walbrook is stopped up by divers filth and dung thrown therein by persons who have houses along the said course, to the great nuisance and damage of all the City ; it is assented to that the Aldermen of the Wards of Colemanstret,
Seite 58 - at Rome, from whence the account of their miles began; but the surveyor was of opinion, by reason of the large foundation, it was rather some more considerable monument in the Forum, for in the adjoining ground on the south side (upon digging for cellars after the
Seite 5 - The beds were of gold and silver upon a pavement of red and blue and white and Hack
Seite 32 - one of the curved tiles. A row of perpendicular funnels extended along the north and south walls formed of brick tiles, with their edges turned up; the tops of these funnels were level with the surface of the cement floor, where the openings formed by them were three inches wide.