Lectures on the Rise and Development of Medieval Architecture, Band 1J. Murray, 1879 |
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Seite 12 - The looms of Ormus, and the mines of Ind, And Saba's spicy groves pay tribute there. Praise is in all her gates: upon her walls, And in her streets, and in her spacious courts, Is heard salvation.
Seite 363 - It were a pious work, I hear you say. To prop the falling ruin, and to stay The work of desolation. It may be That ye say right ; but, O, work tenderly ; Beware lest one worn feature ye efface — Seek not to add one touch of modern grace ; Handle with reverence each crumbling stone, Respect the very lichens o'er it grown ; And bid each ancient monument to stand, Supported e'en as with a filial hand. 'Mid all the light a happier day...
Seite 32 - When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
Seite 11 - ... since, with still less propriety, been called Arabesque ; since the Arabs, prevented by their religion from representing animated nature, never knew them at all. The architecture of the heathen Romans, in its deterioration, followed so regular a course, that that which most immediately preceded the conversion of its rulers to Christianity is also the worst.
Seite 13 - ... architecture. VIII Architecture and Art Architecture and design, what Ruskin called 'the greater arts of life', are crucial instances. In the 1890s Charles Rennie Mackintosh had laid down the principles of a modern Scottish architecture, combining the vernacular — 'as indigenous to our country as our wild flowers, our family names, our customs, or our political constitution...
Seite 2 - Cadmus, the chords of our hearts respond only of love. So it is with those who have harboured an early affection for the architecture of their native land. Strongly as I appreciate the intrinsic beauty of the monuments of classic antiquity, and the merits of very many works of the Revival, I should doubt whether it were possible for any unsophisticated youth, before studying their architecture as a science, to entertain towards its productions in this country any feelings bordering upon real affection.
Seite 193 - I recollect any abroad which, as a whole, surpasses it. Its leading features form a perfect illustration, and that on the grandest scale, of the entire history of our architecture, from the last years of the twelfth to the early part of the fourteenth century.
Seite 47 - Romanesque," the invention of the great eleventh century " Revival," is " religious in the extreme, it possesses " — as might be expected from the strange fervour of the age which introduced it — " a sternness and dignity almost unearthly — a majestic severity of sentiment, which seems, as it were, as if intended to rebuke the unpitying barbarity of the age, and to awe its rude and lawless spirits into obedience to the precepts of the Divine law. Its aspect is religious to the utmost extreme...
Seite 196 - It is, in fact, the most splendid work of that period which we possess, and, did it not lack internal height, I do not think it could be exceeded in beauty by any existing church.
Seite 13 - ... architect to make believe he is living four, five, six hundred or even one thousand years — The last of the historic claim of this architecture to which I will call your attention is that it is the national architecture of our own country and of our forefathers. All I mean to urge is the simple fact that, by whatever members of our family of nations it was shared, it was nevertheless the architecture of our own country, just as much Scotch as we are ourselves — as indigenous to our country...