Turrets, Towers, and Temples: The Great Buildings of the World, as Seen and Described by Famous WritersEsther Singleton Dodd, Mead, 1899 - 317 sider |
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Abbey admiration altar ancient arabesques arches architect architecture artist beautiful bell-towers blue bronze building built Campanile carved Cathedral CATHEDRAL OF AMIENS Cathedral of Seville CATHEDRAL OF TOLEDO ceiling centre Century chapel chimæra choir Christ Christian church colours columns court crowned cupola dark decorated delicate dome door edifice enormous enter entrance Escurial façade feet flowers frescoes gallery gardens gates gold golden Gothic grandeur green hall height Holyrood hundred immense Jacques Coeur king Kremlin light look Louis Louis XIV magnificent marble Mark's marvellous Mosque mountain nave Notre-Dame open-worked ornamented pagoda painted Palace PALACE OF VERSAILLES Paris pavement Peter's pillars porch Pyramid rich Roman roof round royal sacred Saint Scala Regia sculptured seems seen shadow shrine side spire splendour square stand statues stone strange style temple THÉOPHILE GAUTIER tion tomb tower transept vast vault walls Westminster Abbey
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Side 4 - ... them, — a crowd which, if it had its will, would stiletto every soldier that pipes to it. And in the recesses of the porches, all day long, knots of men of the lowest classes, unemployed and listless, lie basking in the sun like lizards ; and unregarded children, — every heavy glance of their young eyes full of desperation and stony depravity, and their throats hoarse with cursing, — gamble, and fight, and snarl, and sleep, hour after hour, clashing their bruised centesimi upon the marble...
Side 61 - THEN Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Oman the Jebusite.
Side 1 - A yard or two farther, we pass the hostelry of the Black Eagle, and, glancing as we pass through the square door of marble, deeply moulded, in the outer wall, we see the shadows of its pergola of vines resting on an ancient well, with a pointed shield carved on its side; and so presently emerge on the bridge and Campo San Mois£, whence to the entrance into St.
Side 2 - ... a multitude of pillars and white domes, clustered into a long low pyramid of coloured light ; a treasure-heap it seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-ofpearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture of alabaster, clear as amber and delicate as ivory...
Side 3 - Lion, lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as if in ecstasy, the crests of the arches break into a marble foam, and toss themselves far into the blue sky in flashes and wreaths of sculptured spray, as if the breakers on the Lido shore had been frost-bound before they fell, and the sea-nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst. Between that grim cathedral of England and this, what an interval ! There is a type of it in the very birds that haunt them ; for, instead of the...
Side 5 - Under foot and over head, a continual succession of crowded imagery, one picture passing into another, as in a dream; forms beautiful and terrible mixed together; dragons and serpents, and ravening beasts of prey, and graceful birds that in the midst of them drink from running fountains and feed from vases of crystal; the passions and the pleasures of human life symbolised together...
Side 1 - Piazza," and then we forget them all ; for between those pillars there opens a great light, and, in the midst of it, as we advance slowly, the vast tower of St. Mark seems to lift itself visibly forth from the level field of chequered stones ; and, on each side, the countless arches prolong themselves into ranged symmetry, as if the rugged and irregular...
Side 9 - Men met there from all countries of the earth, for traffic or for pleasure ; but, above the crowd swaying for ever to and fro in the restlessness of avarice or thirst of delight, was seen perpetually the glory of the temple, attesting to them, whether they would hear or whether they would forbear, that there was one treasure which the merchantman might buy without a price, and one delight better than all others, in the word and the statutes of God.
Side 250 - It was to be his chantry as well as his tomb, for he was determined not to be behind the Lancastrian princes in devotion ; and this unusual anxiety for the sake of a soul not too heavenward in its affections expended itself in the immense apparatus of services which he provided. Almost a second abbey was needed to contain the new establishment^ monks, who were to sing in their stalls " as long as the world shall endure.
Side 147 - Nature often attains it by the simplest means, through the exquisite perfection of a flower or a stretch of summer sky. Just as we have looked at a sunset we look at Giotto's tower, poised far above in the blue air, in all the wonderful dawns and moonlights of Italy, swift darkness shadowing its white glory at the tinkle of the Ave Mary, and a golden glow of sunbeams accompanying the midday Angelus. Between the solemn antiquity of the old Baptistery and the historical gloom of the great Cathedral,...