Metropolitan Improvements: Or, London in the Nineteenth Century, Displayed in a Series of Engravings of the New Buildings, Improvements, &c. by the Most Eminent Artists from Original Drawings, Taken from the Objects Themselves Expressly for this WorkJones, 1827 - 172 oldal |
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acroteria aisles ancient angles antæ arches archi architect architrave artist attic balustrade beautiful blocking course bridge building buttresses called centre chapel character Chester Terrace church circular columns composed composition Corinthian order cornice crowned cupola decorated door Doric Duke east edifice effect elegant elevation embellished Engraved entablature entrance erected feet finials finished flanks frieze galleries garden Gate Grecian ground story handsome height hexastyle houses improvements Inigo Jones Ionic order Langham Place lofty London Lord magnificent mansion Mary-le-bone metropolis Nash ornamented palace Palladian panels parish pediment picturesque piers pilasters plate portico portion Portland Place principal front principal story projecting proportioned Regent Street Regent's Canal Regent's Park Road roof Royal rusticated sculpture side Soane spacious splendid square statues stone style of architecture stylobate surmounted taste temple tetrastyle tetrastyle portico theatre tion tower triglyphs upper villa Westminster whole wings Wren
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106. oldal - ... extol. Above all, it is my object to avoid that nauseating sycophancy, which is generally found to characterize the labours of those cicerones who, professing to furnish the stranger with a guide, too often mislead the judgment. Men, who hardly dare to " hint a fault, or hesitate dislike," and their unqualified commendations, says my friend, are not likely to assist in arriving at the ninth beatitude, " Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed.
25. oldal - The study of this department of our art, convenience, particularly in domestic architecture, is one of the most useful, and at the same time, one of the most difficult parts of an architect's profession.
17. oldal - I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet South, And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in, That not a single accent seems uncouth, Like our harsh northern whistling, grunting guttural, Which we're obliged to hiss, and spit, and sputter all.
95. oldal - And sometimes he would say thus to them: 'Gentlemen, at London you are like ships in a sea, which show like nothing; but in your country villages you are like ships in a river, which look like great things.'"* He was not content with reproof and exhortation.
81. oldal - There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast. And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet; Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet. And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar sing; And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure...
17. oldal - Form'da whole which, irregular in parts, Yet left a grand impression on the mind, At least of those whose eyes are in their hearts: We gaze upon a giant for his stature, Nor judge at first if all be true to nature.
10. oldal - Money in premature Mortgages, the sale of improved Ground Rents, and by numerous other devices, by which their Clients make an advantageous use of their money, and the Attorneys create to themselves a lucrative business from the Agreements, Assignments, Leases, Mortgages, Bonds, and other Instruments of Law, which become necessary throughout such complicated and intricate transactions.
25. oldal - Every man's proper mansion house and home, being the theatre of his hospitality, the seat of self-fruition, the comfortablest part of his own life, the noblest of his son's inheritance, a kind of private princedom; nay, to the possessors thereof, an epitome of the whole world, may well deserve by these attributes according to the degree of the master, to be decently and delightfully adorned.
4. oldal - In better order could not make them stand; May they increase as fast, and spread their boughs, As the high Fame of their great Owner grows ! May he live long enough to see them all Dark shadows cast, and as his Palace tall.
146. oldal - Scotland, which for want of decorative and appropriate sculpture presents a very meagre appearance. See plate of the New Caledonian Asylum. Above the cornice of the pediment are plain acroteria, well adapted to the order of the building to which they are applied, and on the central one, is elevated a statue of St. Andrew with his cross. This appropriate and useful building, which was instituted in 1815, for supporting and educating the children of soldiers, sailors, marines, &c. natives of Scotland,...