140 adjectives to describe architecture

The fault just now, is perhaps to consult the books too rigidly, and to trust too little to invention; for no architecture, and especially no domestic architecture, can ever be above serious reproach, until climate, the uses of the edifice, and the situation, are respected as leading considerations.

Turning over the picture of the ark with too much haste, I unhappily made a breach in its ingenious fabricdriving my inconsiderate fingers right through the two larger quadrupedsthe elephant, and the camelthat stare (as well they might) out of the two last windows next the steerage in that unique piece of naval architecture.

Our parsons and priests, like our ecclesiastical architecture and general church management, do not seem to have improved upon their ancestors.

" "Do not mistake me, Miss Eve," returned Aristabulus, in a little alarm, for he too well understood the influence and wealth of John Effingham, not to wish to be on good terms with him; "do not mistake me, I admire the house, and know it to be a perfect specimen of a pure architecture in its way, but then public opinion is not yet quite up to it.

Mountains and lakes, the dignity of the peasant, the terror of the supernatural, scenes of history, mediaeval architecture and armour, and mediaeval thought and poetry, the arts and mythology of Greeceall became springs of poetic inspiration and poetic joy.

So it is with the medieval architecture.

They told him, never did such an absurdity occur in classic architecture as a triglyph on a corner!

Then he found himself descending a wide companionway to one of the handsomest saloons he had ever entered, a living room that, aside from its concessions to marine architecture, might have graced a residence on Park Lane or on Fifth avenue in the Sixties.

HAMLIN, NORMAN A. Greek revival architecture in America: being an account of important trends in American architecture and American life prior to the War Between the States.

The symphonies of Haydn and Mozart are like toy-houses compared with the massive architecture of Beethoven's.

As we rounded the Battery and sped swiftly up the East River, the noblest avenue of New York, lined with the true palaces of her merchant-princes,an avenue which by its solid and truthful architecture half atones for the flimsiness of its land structures,as we passed the ocean steamships lying at the "Hook," the sea-captains about me began to talk of the American triumphs of speed.

Although it was of very peculiar architecture, the interior fittings were of a modern character.

There is no excuse for the squat, ugly, and stupid arches one sees in almost every attempt at pointed architecture, when the elm-tree springs by every riverside in the land.

The forms of bridges admit, perhaps, of more display of taste than any other species of ornamental architecture, and of a greater means of contributing to the picturesque beauty of the surrounding scenery.

Hauptmann's Weavers certainly cannot be called a piece of dramatic architecture, like Rosmersholm or Iris; but that does not mean that it is a mere rambling series of tableaux.

The fantastic Byzantine architecture of many of the churches and towers gives the city a peculiar Oriental appearance; it seems to have been transported from the hills of Syria....

I know not what rank the Cathedral of Lichfield holds among its sister edifices in England, as a piece of magnificent architecture.

This palazzo of Cosmo the Elder is a good type of Florentine architecture at its ultimate epoch, just as Cosmo himself was the largest expression of the Florentine citizen in the last and over-ripe stage.

Imagination remains abashed at the remains of the most splendid architecture left us by Asiatic genius.

This does not exclude the recurrence of these three stages within each artin architecture, for example, as monumental (the obelisk), useful (house and temple), and Gothic (the cathedral) architecture.

The intercourse of Venice with Alexandria determined the unique architecture of S. Mark's.

The Haddens got Jim Holden to lift them down on the opposite side, for a run to the verge of the projecting half-circle of rock that, like a gigantic bay-window or balcony in the mighty architecture of the hills, looked up and down the whole perspective of the valley.

Edinburgh, "the Queen of the North," abounds in splendid specimens of classical architecture.

He transformed it, not by the help of Primaticcio, with whose name it is tempting to associate any building of this king's, for the methods of contemporary Italian architecture were totally different; but, as Mr. de la Saussaye proves, by the skill of that fertile school of art particularly of one Maitre Pierre Trinqueau, or Le Nepveu, whose name is connected with more successful buildings at Amboise and Blois.

The unprecedented architecture of Commander Blair.

140 adjectives to describe  architecture