Architecture Among the PoetsB. T. Batsford, 1898 - 143 páginas S. Hurst Seager Collection no. 492. |
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... seems to har- monise with , the taste for gold and silver ornament , and for the lining of the walls with costly marbles , which was to become such a characteristic of early Byzantine architecture . When we compare the Homeric ...
... seems to har- monise with , the taste for gold and silver ornament , and for the lining of the walls with costly marbles , which was to become such a characteristic of early Byzantine architecture . When we compare the Homeric ...
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... seem to imply an aquaintance , in some way or other , with the main forms of classic architecture . There is one little bit of decorative work alluded to in the same poem , which has indeed a little more of a mediæval touch about it ...
... seem to imply an aquaintance , in some way or other , with the main forms of classic architecture . There is one little bit of decorative work alluded to in the same poem , which has indeed a little more of a mediæval touch about it ...
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... seems to come not inappro- priately from " Geoffrey Chaucer , clerke of werkes . " When we turn to Spenser , who ( as Pope observed ) " affects the obsolete , " and imitates to some extent the style and orthography of the Chaucer school ...
... seems to come not inappro- priately from " Geoffrey Chaucer , clerke of werkes . " When we turn to Spenser , who ( as Pope observed ) " affects the obsolete , " and imitates to some extent the style and orthography of the Chaucer school ...
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... seems to have been that of a vault springing from the side walls , and meeting on coupled columns in the axis of the ... seem to have occurred to Milton ; 20 Architecture.
... seems to have been that of a vault springing from the side walls , and meeting on coupled columns in the axis of the ... seem to have occurred to Milton ; 20 Architecture.
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Henry Heathcote Statham. This does not seem to have occurred to Milton ; still it is creditable to the logical side of his character as a poet , that he felt the necessity of making the catastrophe seem practicable . Milton , however ...
Henry Heathcote Statham. This does not seem to have occurred to Milton ; still it is creditable to the logical side of his character as a poet , that he felt the necessity of making the catastrophe seem practicable . Milton , however ...
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Página 31 - Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Página 41 - Fill half the land with Imitating Fools; Who random drawings from your sheets shall take, And of one beauty many blunders make...
Página 19 - The imperial palace, compass huge and high The structure, skill of noblest architects, With gilded battlements, conspicuous far, Turrets, and terraces, and glittering spires.
Página 68 - The waveless plain of Lombardy, Bounded by the vaporous air, Islanded by cities fair ; Underneath day's azure eyes Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls, Which her hoary sire now paves With his blue and beaming waves.
Página 2 - There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Página 17 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet— Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven: The roof was fretted gold.
Página 72 - He lingered, poring on memorials Of the world's youth ; through the long burning day Gazed on those speechless shapes ; nor, when the moon Filled the mysterious halls with floating shades, Suspended...
Página 139 - And another would mount and march, like the excellent minion he was, Ay, another and yet another, one crowd but with many a crest, Raising my rampired walls of gold as transparent as glass, Eager to do and die, yield each his place to the rest...
Página 65 - With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate, row and row, On ponderous columns, short and low, Built ere the art was known, By pointed aisle, and shafted stalk, The arcades of an alley'd walk To emulate in stone.
Página 72 - His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old: Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem, the fallen towers Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er of strange, Sculptured on alabaster obelisk Or jasper tomb or mutilated sphinx, Dark ^Ethiopia in her desert hills Conceals.