Essays in History and ArtW. Blackwood and sons, 1862 - 526 páginas |
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... Temple , as to the more stately occupants of palatial edifices . Enter a gallery of sculpture , and see what hints about colour there suggest themselves . Here we have our old friend the Venus de Medici , -showing the perfection of ...
... Temple , as to the more stately occupants of palatial edifices . Enter a gallery of sculpture , and see what hints about colour there suggest themselves . Here we have our old friend the Venus de Medici , -showing the perfection of ...
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... temples - and , moreover , that these reflected hues have always a tendency to produce , as they pass into the ordinary daylight , colours the very opposite of themselves ; so that when rose- colour is reflected upon the face , a space ...
... temples - and , moreover , that these reflected hues have always a tendency to produce , as they pass into the ordinary daylight , colours the very opposite of themselves ; so that when rose- colour is reflected upon the face , a space ...
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... temple , as every one knows , is constituted of three prominent compartments - the columnar portion , the entablature , and the tympanum ; and in remarkable confirma- tion of Mr Hay's theory , the oblong which would inscribe the whole ...
... temple , as every one knows , is constituted of three prominent compartments - the columnar portion , the entablature , and the tympanum ; and in remarkable confirma- tion of Mr Hay's theory , the oblong which would inscribe the whole ...
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... temple ought to be subject to the laws of Symmetry , the principles of which ought to be familiar to all who profess ... temples and sacred edifices , -the beauties or defects of which buildings being destined to remain as a perpetual ...
... temple ought to be subject to the laws of Symmetry , the principles of which ought to be familiar to all who profess ... temples and sacred edifices , -the beauties or defects of which buildings being destined to remain as a perpetual ...
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... temples of Paganism afterwards served for the solemnities of Christianity . All that we know is , that , having neither date nor inscription , they must be older than written language , -for a people who can write never leave their own ...
... temples of Paganism afterwards served for the solemnities of Christianity . All that we know is , that , having neither date nor inscription , they must be older than written language , -for a people who can write never leave their own ...
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Página 195 - ... a sum of not less than one lac of rupees in each year shall be set apart and applied to the revival and improvement of literature and the encouragement of the learned Natives of India, and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences among the inhabitants of the British Territories in India...
Página 362 - Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour ! The time, the clime, the spot, where I so oft Have felt that moment in its fullest power Sink o'er the earth so beautiful and soft, While swung the deep bell in the distant tower. Or the faint dying day-hymn stole aloft, And not a breath crept through the rosy air, And yet the forest leaves seem'd stirr'd with prayer.