 | Elinor (aunt, pseud.) - Architecture - 1843 - 170 pages
...difficult for the noblest Grecian temple to convey half so many impressions to the mind as a cathedral does of the best Gothic taste, a proof of skill in the architects, and address in the priests who erected them. One must have taste to be sensible of the beauties of Grecian... | |
 | Galerie Georges Petit - 1849 - 538 pages
...Rheims. noblest Grecian temple to convey half so many impressions to the mind, as a cathedral does of the best Gothic taste— a proof of skill in the...and perspectives infused such sensations of romantic devoGreat resemblance of the first to the later Gothic will excuse the introduction of the following... | |
 | Galerie Georges Petit - 1849 - 538 pages
...Rheims. noblest Grecian temple to convey half so many impressions to the mind, as a cathedral does of the best Gothic taste— a proof of skill in the...and perspectives infused such sensations of romantic devosettlements in Greece, with marble from the ruined cities, which was used in constructing their... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1849 - 492 pages
...objeets themselves, with the abilities required for their produetion." A relt. vol. xvi. p. 292. tion ; and they were happy in finding artists capable of executing such machinery. One must have taste to he sensible of the beauties of Greeian arehitecture ; one only wants passions to feel Gothic. In St.... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Artists - 1876 - 446 pages
...W.] * ' . noblest Grecian temple to convey half so many impressions to the mind, as a cathedral does of the best Gothic taste — a proof of skill in the...mechanism, vaults, tombs, painted windows, gloom, and perspective infused such sensations of romantic devosettlements in Greece, with marble from the ruined... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1879 - 606 pages
...difficult for the noblest Grecian temple to convey half so many impressions to the mind as a cathedral does of the best Gothic taste — a proof of skill in the...finding artists capable of executing such machinery. One mi«t have taste to be sensible of the beauties of Grecian architecture ; one only wants passions to... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Poets, English - 1912 - 480 pages
...by Mitford.] 2 Whatever the passage was, we now read [The priests] "exhausted their knowledge of ye passions in composing edifices whose pomp, mechanism,...perspectives infused such sensations of romantic devotion. " 3 " There is a tradition that Sir Christopher Wren went once a year to survey the roof of the chapel... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poets, English - 1912 - 482 pages
...the passage was, we now read [The priests] "exhausted their knowledge of y° passions in competing edifices whose pomp, mechanism, vaults, tombs, painted...perspectives infused such sensations of romantic devotion. " 3 " There is a tradition that Sir Christopher Wren went once a year to survey the roof of the chapel... | |
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It is difficult for the noblest Grecian temple to convey half so many impressions to the mind as a cathedral does of the best Gothic taste — a proof of skill in the architects and of address in the priests who erected them. The latter exhausted their... 
