London and Middlesex, Or, An Historical, Commercial, & Descriptive Survey of the Metropolis of Great-Britain: Including Sketches of Its Environs, and a Topographical Account of the Most Remarkable Places in the Above County, Volumul 2W. Wilson, 1814 - 4033 pagini |
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Pagina 216
... pilasters placed in front , aud three on each flank , formed a square [ oblong ] peristyle , and supported an entablature and balustrade , which was crowned with statues of Kings , the predecessors of Charles the First , who claimed the ...
... pilasters placed in front , aud three on each flank , formed a square [ oblong ] peristyle , and supported an entablature and balustrade , which was crowned with statues of Kings , the predecessors of Charles the First , who claimed the ...
Pagina 252
... pilasters , arranged at regular distances ; those above being of the Composite order , and those below of the Corinthian . The intervals between the Corinthian pilasters are occupied by large windows , serving to light the side - aisles ...
... pilasters , arranged at regular distances ; those above being of the Composite order , and those below of the Corinthian . The intervals between the Corinthian pilasters are occupied by large windows , serving to light the side - aisles ...
Pagina 253
... pilasters and windows , from the entablature of which springs the exterior dome ; this is of a bold and graceful contour , ' covered with lead , and ribbed at regular intervals . Round the aperture , at its summit , is another gallery ...
... pilasters and windows , from the entablature of which springs the exterior dome ; this is of a bold and graceful contour , ' covered with lead , and ribbed at regular intervals . Round the aperture , at its summit , is another gallery ...
Pagina 254
... pilasters , both of the Corinthian and of the Composite orders , and are further adorned with shields , festoons , chaplets , cherubim , & c . · The vaulting of this part of the Church merits great praise for its light and elegant ...
... pilasters , both of the Corinthian and of the Composite orders , and are further adorned with shields , festoons , chaplets , cherubim , & c . · The vaulting of this part of the Church merits great praise for its light and elegant ...
Pagina 255
... pilasters , at which level the smaller openings are expanded in a peculiar manner , so that the eight main arches are all equal . The cathedral of Ely is , per- haps , the only other Church , in this country , in which the cen- tral ...
... pilasters , at which level the smaller openings are expanded in a peculiar manner , so that the eight main arches are all equal . The cathedral of Ely is , per- haps , the only other Church , in this country , in which the cen- tral ...
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London and Middlesex: Or, An Historical, Commercial ..., Volumul 2 Edward Wedlake Brayley Vizualizare completă - 1814 |
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Pagina 455 - The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of London...
Pagina 292 - Bernini's design of the Louvre I would have given my skin for ; but the old reserved Italian gave me but a few minutes' view ; it was five little designs on paper, for which he hath received as many thousand pistoles.
Pagina 82 - To where Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood.
Pagina 719 - ... and undaunted courage : and, notwithstanding he had at this time neither read books, nor conversed with men capable of giving him much instruction in the military art, all the resources which he employed in the defence of Arcot, were such as are dictated by the best masters in the science of war.
Pagina 1 - Then Commerce brought into the public walk The busy merchant; the big warehouse built; Raised the strong crane; choked up the loaded street With foreign plenty; and thy stream, O Thames! Large, gentle, deep, majestic, king of floods! Chose for his grand resort.
Pagina 297 - Kunc me jttbet fortuna cxpeditiut philosophari;' in which recess, free from worldly affairs, he passed the greatest part of the five last following years of his life, in contemplation and studies, and principally in the consolation of the Holy Scriptures; cheerful in solitude, and as well pleased to die in the shade as in the light.
Pagina 517 - Public at large, that the general concerns of the Bank are in the most affluent and prosperous situation, and such as to preclude every doubt as to the security of its Notes.
Pagina 492 - Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow : 23 Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
Pagina 279 - WORLD ; WHICH HE TRAVERSED TO REDUCE THE SUM OF HUMAN MISERY. FROM THE THRONE TO THE DUNGEON HIS NAME WAS MENTIONED WITH RESPECT, GRATITUDE, AND ADMIRATION.
Pagina 533 - An aft for authorizing his majesty in council to allow, during the present war, and for six months after the ratification of a definitive treaty of peace...