Guide to the Crystal palace and park, المجلد 2Crystal Palace Library, 1854 - 202 من الصفحات |
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16th century Alhambra amongst animals antique APOLLO SAUROCTONOS arcade arches ARCHITECT architecture artist BACCHUS BAS-RELIEF basin beautiful bronze building BUST Byzantine cast Cathedral celebrated Central Transept centre century CHARLES Church colossal coloured columns commenced Crystal Palace Crystal Palace Company CUPID CYCLOPÆDIA decorations door doorway Egyptian England English entrance erected examples exhibited façade Fancy Farnese Hercules FAUN feet figures fountain FRANCE French frieze front garden German glass Gothic ground illustrations Italian Jean Goujon KING London LOUIS Louvre MANCELO manufacture marble MARSHAL OF FRANCE Medici Medieval Court ments monument nature Nave NIOBID original ornament Owen Jones painted PAINTER Park PARTHENON Patent PHILOSOPHER placed plants POET portion Portrait Gallery Railway remarkable Renaissance ROMAN EMPEROR Rome sculpture SCULPTURE COURT side Sir Joseph Paxton South specimens STATESMAN statue style Sydenham tablinum temple terrace tomb Transept various VASE VENUS vestibule visitor walls whilst wings
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الصفحة 177 - ... transepts, the open galleries, the circular roof to the Nave, the height of the Central Transept, the great length of the building, and the general aerial appearance of the whole crystal fabric, produce an effect which, for novelty and lightness, surpasses every other architectural elevation in the world. Turning his back upon the building, the visitor beholds on either side of him green undulating lawns, beds planted with rhododendrons and other flowers, and winding gravel walks. He now surveys...
الصفحة 13 - ... to blend for them instruction with pleasure, to educate them by the eye, to quicken and purify their taste by the habit of recognising the beautiful ; — to place them amidst the trees, flowers, and plants of all countries and of all climates, and to attract them to the study of...
الصفحة 170 - St. George in box : his arm scarce long enough, but will be in a condition to stick the dragon by next April.
الصفحة 5 - While containing copious references to such more ample authorities, their own dimensions ought not •'Mr. Charles Knight, in a recently published little book, ' The Old Printer and Modern Press,' which abounds in curious facts upon the history of books, states that ' no work that occupied more than four or five years in its completion was ever successful in this country...
الصفحة 5 - Cyclopaedia,' of which the publication occupied eleven years, or two years less than the Realencyclopadie, gradually fell from 50,UOO to 20,000 — more than half the original subscribers preferring to sacrifice their previous outlay to waiting any longer for the final articles of the alphabet, which were as frequently required for reference as the earlier portion. Mr. Knight, in an improved edition of the work, which he is issuing under the title of the
الصفحة 170 - Myrtle, which was very forward, but miscarried by being too near a Savine. An old Maid of Honour in Wormwood. A topping Ben Jonson in Laurel. Divers eminent modern Poets in Bays, somewhat blighted, to be disposed of a pennyworth. A quick-set Hog shot up into a Porcupine, by being forgot a week in rainy weather.
الصفحة 64 - Seest thou not how the water from above flows on the surface, notwithstanding the current underneath strives to oppose its progress ; like a lover whose eyelids are pregnant with tears, and who suppresses them for fear of an informer?
الصفحة 32 - The superficial quantity of glass used is 25 acres ; and, if the panes were laid side by side, they would extend to a distance of 48 miles ; if end to end, to the almost incredible length of 242 miles.
الصفحة 13 - They decided that the building — the first wonderful example of a new style of architecture — should rise again greatly enhanced in grandeur and beauty; that it should form a Palace for the multitude, where, at all times, protected from the inclement varieties of our climate, healthful exercise and wholesome recreation should be easily attainable. To raise the enjoyments and amusements of the English people, and especially to afford to the inhabitants of London, in wholesome country air, amidst...
الصفحة 32 - Mr. Phillips informs us in his "Guide," "at the very summit of the nave and transepts, as well as round the groundfloor of the building, are placed louvres, or ventilators, made of galvanised iron. By opening or closing these louvres, a service readily performed, the temperature of the Crystal Palace is so regulated, that, on the hottest day of summer, the dry parching heat mounts to the roof to be dismissed, whilst a pure and invigorating supply is introduced at the floor in its place, giving new...