The Shipley collection of scientific papers, Volumen3021926 |
Términos y frases comunes
acres addition advertisement aesthetic afforestation agricultural already amenities Ancient Monuments Board architect architectural areas artificial Association authorities BIOLOGY LIBRARY G Bridge Buckingham Palace Gardens building bungalow charabanc character Civic Societies clause coalfields Commons and Footpaths cottages County Council disfigure East Kent economic effect English countryside existing roads factory farming Feng Shui Footpaths Preservation Society frequently frontages grouped growth historic Homecroft houses improved industrial industrial revolution interest land large number Letchworth Llanberis London main road maps Minister Ministry of Health motor National Trust parish park patches persuasive planning pithead pits Playing Fields population possible powers prepared present President purposes quarries railways Regional Committee Regional Plan ribbon Ruislip-Northwood Rural Community Council Rural Planning Rural Preservation sandstone satellite Scapa Stratford-upon-Avon suburb suburban sugar beet Survey Temple Newsam Town Planning Act town planning schemes traffic trees ugly urban decentralisation valley wild Wirral Women's Institutes
Pasajes populares
Página 5 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Página 16 - Of spacious meads with cattle sprinkled o'er, Conducts the eye along his sinuous course Delighted. There, fast rooted in their bank, Stand, never overlooked, our favourite elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut; While far beyond, and overthwart the stream, That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, The sloping land recedes into the clouds...
Página 14 - Not pretty by any means; but they are good; and you see here, as in Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire, and, indeed, in almost every part of England, that most interesting of all objects, that which is such an honour to England, and that which distinguishes it from all the rest of the world, namely, those neatly kept and productive little gardens round the labourers' houses, which are seldom unornamented with more or less of flowers.
Página 16 - ... elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut ; While far beyond, and overthwart the stream That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, The sloping land recedes into the clouds ; Displaying on its varied side the grace Of hedgerow beauties numberless, square tower, Tall spire, from which the sound of cheerful bells Just undulates upon the listening ear, Groves, heaths, and smoking villages remote.
Página 51 - ... fact that man is merely a temporarily detached and animated fragment of the earth, soon to return to it ; and on the other to that intense veneration for natural scenery, and especially lofty mountains, which has caused Tibet, on the roof of the world, to be selected as the holy place. " But besides this spiritual aspect there was the purely practical one ; the people were too numerous to be penned in cities — they spread over the face of the country. The density of the population per square...
Página 16 - Here Ouse, slow winding through a level plain Of spacious meads with cattle sprinkled o'er, Conducts the eye along his sinuous course, Delighted.
Página 35 - The amenities of any historic or public building or monument or of any place frequented by the public solely or chiefly on account of its beauty or historic interest.
Página 31 - Council are of opinion that the character of the building or buildings proposed to be erected or altered would be injurious to the amenity of the neighbourhood, whether on account of the design or the undue repetition of the design or the materials to be used, the Council may require such reasonable alterations to be made in regard to the design or materials as they may think fit, and may require the plans to be amended accordingly.
Página 52 - Missionaries establishing themselves in some remote valley and building a neat corrugated iron tabernacle with spiked bell turret have been indignantly surprised when the population has arisen and massacred them — not by reason of any objection to their religious teaching, but because the pitch of the roof was, perhaps, too steep or the spike of their bell turret should have been domed or square-topped. Again, railway embankments and tunnels have been considered by the inhabitants to favour the...
Página 52 - Octopus 147 spiritual forces of Nature have produced and to prescribe the ways in which all buildings, roads, bridges, canals and railways must conform to them, is placed in a position of extreme power ; and we ourselves can hardly hope to be able similarly to explode some flaring upstart bungalow or ' dark Satanic mill ' or conflagrate the perpetuators of certain countryside-blasting advertisements in their own spirit. " But whether we base our aesthetics upon Chinese premises or not, they have...