The seven lamps of architectureJ. Wiley & Son, 1866 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
13th century abstraction admit arcade architect architecture arrangement artists bas-reliefs beauty believe builders building built campanile carved cathedral cathedral of Pisa century character church color considered cornice Correggio dark decoration delight depends Doge's palace effect expression feeling flowers Giotto give Gothic Gothic architecture grace Greek ground height human imitation instance invention kind landscape landscape art laws leaves lecture less light lines living look marble masses mean Mediævalism mind modern mouldings nature necessary never niches noble objects observe ornament painter painting palace Palazzo Foscari pediment perfect perhaps pillars pinnacles Plate pleasure pointed arch Pre-Raphaelites present principle proportion quatrefoil render respecting Romanesque roof Rouen Rouen Cathedral rude sculpture seen sense shade shadow shafts spandril spire spirit stone style sublimity suppose surface things thought tion Titian tower tracery true truth Turner ugly Venice wall whole window
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 63 - And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth : and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
Seite 73 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain ; if thou sayest, "Behold, we knew it not;" doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Seite 119 - My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Seite 38 - Walk about Zion, and go round about her : Tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, Consider her palaces ; That ye may tell it to the generation following : For this God is our God for ever and ever : He will be our guide even unto death.
Seite 4 - A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine; who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, makes that and the action fine.
Seite 119 - He putteth forth his hand upon the rock ; he overturneth the mountains by the roots. He cutteth out rivers among the rocks ; and his eye seeth every precious thing. He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
Seite 87 - And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
Seite 11 - And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price : neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing.
Seite 147 - ... a scene in some aboriginal forest of the New Continent. The flowers in an instant lost their light, the river its music ; the hills became oppressively desolate ; a heaviness in the boughs of the darkened forest showed how much of their former power had been dependent upon a life which was not theirs, how much of the glory of the imperishable, or continually renewed, creation is reflected from things more precious in their memories than it, in its renewing.
Seite 118 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming : it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.