House-building from a Cottage to a Mansion: A Practical Guide to Members of Building Societies, and to All Interested in Selecting Or Building a HouseG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1873 - 504 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 259 - You shall have sometimes fair houses so full of glass, that one cannot tell where to become to be out of the sun or cold.
الصفحة 304 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
الصفحة 41 - Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building: yet it shines not alike from all parts of heaven. An east window welcomes the infant beams of the sun, before they are of strength to do any harm, and is offensive to none but a sluggard. A south window in summer is a chimney with a fire in it, and needs the screen of a curtain. In a west window in summer time towards night, the sun grows low, and over familiar, with more light than delight.
الصفحة 15 - Therefore, things that we see in succession ought to have variety, for our soul has no difficulty in seeing them ; those, on the contrary, that we see at one glance, ought to have symmetry: thus, at one glance we see the front of a building, a parterre, a temple ; in such things there is always a symmetry which pleases the soul by the facility it gives her of taking in the whole object at once.
الصفحة 15 - A true artist should put a generous deceit on the spectators, and effect the noblest designs by easy methods. Designs that are vast only by their dimensions are always the sign of a common and low imagination. No work of art can be great, but as it deceives ; to be otherwise is the prerogative of nature only.
الصفحة 41 - Next, a pleasant prospect is to be respected. A medley view (such as of water and land at Greenwich) best entertains the eyes, refreshing the wearied beholder with exchange of objects. Yet, I know a more profitable prospect, where the owner can only see his own land round about.
الصفحة 10 - In Gothic buildings, the outline of the summit presents such a variety of forms of turrets and pinnacles, some open, some fretted and variously enriched, that, even where there is an exact correspondence of parts, it is often disguised by an appearance of splendid confusion and irregularity.
الصفحة 261 - ... with a naked wall, but enclosed with terraces leaded aloft, and fairly garnished on the three sides ; and cloistered on the inside with pillars, and not with arches below. As for offices, let them stand at distance, with some low galleries to pass from them to the palace itself.
الصفحة 40 - ... to make them pay for it accordingly. Wood and water are two staple commodities where they may be had. The former I confess hath made so much iron, that it must now be bought with the more silver, and grows daily dearer.