The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower with the lightness and delicate finish as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable... Off-hand Takings - Página 117de George Washington Bungay - 1854 - 408 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1892 - 880 páginas
...just after morning service, when we are wandering about the cathedral grounds. The first is this : " The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone, subdued...lightness and delicate finish as well as the aerial proportion and perspective of vegetable beauty." Then when he has recovered from the shock of this,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 páginas
...plane still reproduced its ferns, its spikes of flowers, its locust, elm, oak, pine, fir, and spruce. The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued...mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower, widi the lightness and delicate finish, as well as the aerial proportions and perspective, of vegetable... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 páginas
...still reproduced its forms, its spikes of flowers, its locust, its pine, its oak, its fir, its spruce. The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone, subdued...aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty. Emerson. NATURE AND HEVELATION Works of. The works of nature, and the works of revelation, display... | |
| Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - 858 páginas
...still re-produced its forms, its spikes of flowers, its locust, its pine, its oak, its fir, its spruce. The Gothic Cathedral is a blossoming in stone, subdued...delicate finish as well as the aerial proportions and perspMEive of vegetable beauty. — Emerson. AЕCНТTЕCТОЕЕ.— Rational Etligion and National... | |
| 1882 - 1434 páginas
...unilormity, except where both can be had. /. BACON — Essays. Of Building. The Gothic cathedral is n arms the sense, Others apart sat on a hill retired,...free will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, . g. EMERSON — Essay. Of History. Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to... | |
| Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 páginas
...bo preferred before uniformity, except where both can be had. /. BACON — ¿i.wi/s. Of liu'Miiiy. ead is аз full of quarrels as an egg is full of...stands ; we should only spoil it by trying to explain i ¡erial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty. (j. EMEBSON— Essay. Of History. Rich windows... | |
| Great thoughts - 1882 - 742 páginas
...still re-produced its forms, its spikes of flowers, its locust, its pine, its oak, its fir, its spruce. The Gothic Cathedral is a blossoming in stone, subdued...flower, with the lightness and delicate finish as well us the acrial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty. — Emerson. ARCHITECTURE. — National... | |
| Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 páginas
...let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both can be had. f. BACON - Essays. Of Building. The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. Tin; mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish, as... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 556 páginas
...plane, still reproduced its ferns, its spikes of flowers, its locust, elm, oak, pine, fir, and spruce. The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone, subdued...beauty. In like manner, all public facts are to be individualised, all private facts are to be generalised. Then at once History becomes fluid and true,... | |
| Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 páginas
...a plant or a crystal. (Emcrton. Nature is a revelation of God ; Art a revelation of man. (LongfMow. The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued...aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty. (Emerson. The stone unhewn and cold, Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes The more the... | |
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