The sea-storiesJohn Wiley and Sons, 1873 - Architecture |
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... marble rocks of Genoa , but a sea with the bleak power of our own northern waves , yet sub- dued into a strange spacious rest , and changed from its angry pallor into a field of burnished gold , as the sun declined behind the belfry ...
... marble rocks of Genoa , but a sea with the bleak power of our own northern waves , yet sub- dued into a strange spacious rest , and changed from its angry pallor into a field of burnished gold , as the sun declined behind the belfry ...
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... marble by the boat's side ; and when at last that boat darted forth upon the breadth of silver sea , across which the front of the Ducal palace , flushed with its sanguine veins , looks to the snowy dome of Our Lady of Sal- vation , it ...
... marble by the boat's side ; and when at last that boat darted forth upon the breadth of silver sea , across which the front of the Ducal palace , flushed with its sanguine veins , looks to the snowy dome of Our Lady of Sal- vation , it ...
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... marble , and their capitals are enriched with delicate sculpture , they , and the arches they sustain , together only raise the roof to the height of a cattle - shed ; and the first strong impression which the spectator receives from ...
... marble , and their capitals are enriched with delicate sculpture , they , and the arches they sustain , together only raise the roof to the height of a cattle - shed ; and the first strong impression which the spectator receives from ...
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... marble , and are among the best I have ever seen , as examples of perfectly calculated effect from every touch of the chisel . Mr. Hope * For a full account of the form and symbolical meaning of the Basilica , see Lord Lindsay's ...
... marble , and are among the best I have ever seen , as examples of perfectly calculated effect from every touch of the chisel . Mr. Hope * For a full account of the form and symbolical meaning of the Basilica , see Lord Lindsay's ...
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... marble , but a single example is given in the opposite Plate , fig . 1. , of the nature of the changes effected in them from the Corinthian type . In this capital , although a kind of acanthus ( only with rounded lobes ) is indeed used ...
... marble , but a single example is given in the opposite Plate , fig . 1. , of the nature of the changes effected in them from the Corinthian type . In this capital , although a kind of acanthus ( only with rounded lobes ) is indeed used ...
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