The Evolution of the English HouseS. Sonnenschein & Company, lim., 1898 - 223 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 41 - But then, that this work may not, while it is soft and green, pull itself down by its own weight, the provident architect has prudence and forbearance enough not to advance her work too fast ; but by building only in the morning, and by dedicating the rest of the day to food and amusement, gives it sufficient time to dry and harden. About half an inch seems to be a sufficient layer for a day.
الصفحة 37 - And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the Lord.
الصفحة 68 - Sunday, and bid 16 men to stop, tall ones and small ones, as they happen to pass out when the service is finished ; then make them put their left feet one behind the other and the length thus obtained shall be a right and lawful rood to measure and survey...
الصفحة 121 - Glass windows in churches and gentlemen's houses were rare before the time of Henry VIII. In my own remembrance, before the civil wars, copyholders and poor people had none. In Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, and Salop, it is so still.
الصفحة 177 - One of the most remarkable characteristics of English architecture, though but a negative one, is the almost total absence of any municipal buildings during the whole period of the Middle Ages. The Guildhall of London is a late specimen, and may even be called an insignificant one, considering the importance of the city. There are also some corporation buildings at Bristol, and one or two unimportant town-halls in other cities ; but there wo stop.
الصفحة xi - Arranged for. ^e series, sufficient works have already been arranged for to describe some leading features of English social life, and to point out some of the numerous highways which lead to a great centre, passing through different provinces, which all have their local colour, but the lives of whose inhabitants need also to be known if we are to understand the country as a whole, and not merely the court and parliament of the capital.
الصفحة xii - ... ideal of knighthood ? How far did it imply an acquaintance with the learning of the day and with foreign countries ? Did it strengthen the feeling of pity for the weak, or purify the love for women ? In what are wrongly called the dark ages, was there a vast society of men of culture, who donra...
الصفحة xv - History, no longer cramped by being cut off from social life ; the great men are not isolated, but take their proper places among their fellow-countrymen, their lives forming fit landmarks, because they are akin to the people among whom they live, their characters not adapted to the century of the commentator, but bearing the impress of the forces round them, whose constant pressure is part of their life. They and those who are lesser than themselves, and the changing conditions that create them...
الصفحة 68 - Stand at the door of a church on a Sunday and bid sixteen men to stop, tall ones and small ones, as they happen to pass out when the service is finished; then make them put their left feet one behind the other, and the length thus obtained shall be a right and lawful rod to measure and survey the land with, and the sixteenth part of it shall be a right and lawful foot.
الصفحة xiii - ... around it, how far its methods or motives can be borrowed, why the fifteenth century gave pause to our art, why at a certain period cathedrals ceased to be built, and when it was we added great names in our turn to the list of painters. The music of Anglo-Saxon and of Dane will Music. to some make clearer the influence of skald and gleeman; the effect of poetry will be noted, the growth of instruments, and the increasing complexity of music. Possibly the change in the landscape might Scenery....