Metropolitan Improvements; Or London in the Nineteenth Century: Displayed in a Series of Engravings... |
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Page 114 - Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed You can send a boy to college but you can't make him think.
Page 1 - The gaudy tools, and prisoners, no more. " Lo ! numerous domes a Burlington confess : For kings and senates fit, the palace see ! The temple breathing a religious awe ; E'en framed with elegance the plain retreat, The private dwelling. Certain in his aim, Taste, never idly working, saves expense.
Page 32 - The study of this department of our art, convenience, particularly in domestic architecture, is one of the most useful, and at the same time, one of the most difficult parts of an architect's profession.
Page 131 - ... parlour, an armoury, a printing office, and private apartments for the residence of officers and servants of the establishment. The principal apartments are on the ground floor, and there is no upper story over the chief offices, which are all lighted from above. In the basement story are numerous rooms, and fire-proof vaults for the conservation of bullion, coin, notes, bills and other securities. THE TEMPLE CHURCH AS RESTORED. This ancient and very beautiful church was founded by the Knights...
Page 33 - Every man's proper mansion house and home, being the theatre of his hospitality, the seat of self-fruition, the comfortablest part of his own life, the noblest of his son's inheritance, a kind of private princedom; nay, to the possessors thereof, an epitome of the whole world, may well deserve by these attributes according to the degree of the master, to be decently and delightfully adorned.
Page 120 - Although Sir William Chambers translated this balderdash in 1732, yet when he published his own matured treatise in 1759, in animadverting upon such vagaries, he says, "the substitution of cocks, owls, or lion's heads &.c. for roses ; of trophies, cornucopias, lilies, sphinxes, or even men, women and children for volutes ; the introduction of feathers, lyres, flowerde-luces, or coronets for leaves ; are more alterations than improvements ; and the suspension of flowers, or collars of knighthood,...
Page 17 - Nash, to whom the public are beholden for the most picturesque improvements that ever were bestowed upon their metropolis, in each of his reports to the commissioners of His Majesty's woods and forests, that we cannot do better than to extract a few of the more important passages. This eminent architect says, that " the artificial causes of the extension of the town...
Page 18 - Money in premature Mortgages, the sale of improved Ground-Rents, and by numerous other devices, by which their Clients make an advantageous use of their money, and the Attorneys create to themselves a lucrative business from the Agreements, Assignments, Leases, Mortgages, Bonds, and other instruments of Law, which become necessary throughout such complicated and intricate transactions.
Page 2 - God, in four days;" and, by beginning, and continuing with a truly national perseverance, a series of desirable improvements, that bid fair to render LONDON, the ROME of modern history. So rapidly indeed are these improvements taking place around us, that the absence of a few months from London, produces revolutions in sites, and alterations in appearances, that are almost miraculous, and cause the denizen to feel himself a stranger in his own city. Could our late revered monarch, the first English...
Page 88 - Variety and intricacy is a beauty and excellence in every other of the arts which address the imagination; and why not in Architecture...