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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...er receiving his degree from Williams he at- tended the Columbia School of Architecture and after graduation became a partner in the firm of Squires &... ...undecided, Joeokel will enter., the Harvard law school. Johnson will study architecture at the University of California. Continued in the next isme. M... ...omething about the services in our chapel. We have a building which by its architecture and its associations naturally, and it would seem, should irre... ...sults, and thus we have neither clear desoription nor sequence of events. "Arcades Anibo" is a capital piece of satire, a sort of Crabbe on Theocritus... ... now occupied by thew. The house is a frame structure of sim- ple colonial architecture through- out. A two-story portico with columns adorns the fron... ...he same hours, as in previous years. About a dozen photographs of Egyptian architecture to illustrate Greek (5 liavo been placed on ex- hibition in th...

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A Little Tour in France

By: Henry James

...d by Balzac, in “Le Cure de Tours,” “one of the finest monuments of French architecture.” The Palais de Justice was the seat of the Government of Leon... ...of wasted friend- liness beneath the big walls of the cathedral. Its lower arcades have been closed, and it has a small plot of gar- den in the middle... ...s of Tours; for the town contains several goodly specimens of the domestic architecture of the past. The dwelling to which the average Anglo-Saxon wil... ... wing, taken by itself, has much of the bel air which was to belong to the architecture of Louis XIV.; but, taken in contrast to its flowering, laughi... ...or of this beautiful front, to which the new feeling for a purely domestic architecture—an architecture of security and tranquillity, in which art cou... ...ges. The court, in- deed, is on a large scale, ornamented with turrets and arcades, with several beautiful windows, and with sculp- tures inserted in ... ...e them at La Rochelle? The streets of this dear little city are lined with arcades,—good, big, straddling arcades of stone, such as befit a land of ho... ...-Theatre,—an establishment in the high- est style, encircled with columns, arcades, lamps, gilded cafes. One feels it to be a monument to the virtue o... ...ingered on into October) lasted longer there than else- where; certain low arcades, which make the streets look gray and exhibit empty vistas; and a v...

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Gambara

By: Honoré de Balzac

...lied her com- panion aloud—who was very plain. After walking all round the arcades, the young man looked by turns at the sky and at his watch, and wit... ...express the wonderful energy of this great human movement which created an architecture, a music, a poetry of its own, a costume and manners. As you l... ...f its own, a costume and manners. As you listen, you are walking under the arcades of the Generalife, the carved vaults of the Alhambra. The runs and ...

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Pictures from Italy

By: Charles Dickens

...othing. Again, an ancient sombre town, under the brilliant sky; with heavy arcades over the footways of the older streets, 65 Charles Dickens and lig... ...ther times! I wonder, above all, why it is the great feature of do mestic architecture in Italian inns, that all the fire goes up the chimney, except... ...tiest houses. Past plots of garden, theatres, shrines, prodigious piles of architecture—Gothic— Saracenic—fanciful with all the fancies of all times a... ...n hundred years ago. With its marble fit ted churches, lofty towers, rich architecture, and quaint old quiet thoroughfares, where shouts of Montagues... ...ome business dealings going on, and some profits realising; for there were arcades full of Jews, where those extraordinary people were sitting outside... ... make targets of great pictures, and stable their horses among triumphs of architecture. But the same Corsican face is so plentiful in some parts of I... ...lying about in various directions. The fireplace was of the purest Italian architecture, so that it was perfectly impossible to see it for the smoke. ...

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Maitre Cornelius

By: Honoré de Balzac

... in the choir were burning. Irregularly shed among a forest of columns and arcades which supported the three naves of the cathedral, the gleam of thes... ... If Louis XI. had bestowed upon the build- ing of his castle the luxury of architecture which Francois I. displayed afterwards at Chambord, the dwelli...

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Mudfog & Other Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...very imposing. We consider the town hall one of the finest specimens of shed architecture, extant: it is a combi nation of the pig sty and tea garden... ... for the three best designs for a general almshouse; from which — as insect architecture was well known to be in a very advanced and perfect state ... ... fessor Queerspeck stated that no substitute for the purposes to which these arcades were at present devoted had yet oc curred to him, but that he ho...

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Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...was just like that of a little the- atre; the houses curiously small, with arcades and balconies, out of which looked women apparently a great deal to... ...her before, enormous wheels. The churches I saw were of the florid periwig architecture— I mean of that pompous cauliflower kind of ornament which was... ...solute; and I have always fancied that the bloated artificial forms of the architecture partake of the social disorganisation of the 13 Thackeray tim... ...man Catholic cathedral, a hideous new Protestant church of the cigar-divan architecture, and a Court-house with a portico which is said to be an imita... ...s place is very wide and picturesque:there is a pretty church of Byzantine architecture at the further end; and in the midst of the court a magnificen... ...Gibraltar and Malta, nothing can be less romantic than the modern military architecture; which sternly regards the fight- ing, without in the least he...

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War and the Future; Italy, France and Britain at War

By: H. G. Wells

...unding in old castles and villas, Vicenza is a rich mu- seum of Palladio’s architecture and Bassano is full of irre- placeable painted buildings—one f... ...pressing sentiments. Newspaper vendors appeared at the intersection of the arcades, uttering ambiguous cries, and did a brisk business of flitting whi... ... shame the ceiling gods of Hampton Court. One 63 H G Wells passes through arcades of waiting motor vans, through ar- cades of waiting motor vans, thr...

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Catherine de Medici

By: Honoré de Balzac

...trod- den mud which kept the place always dirty. In all French towns these arcades or galleries are called les piliers, a general term to which was ad... ...le exposure to the north and south, that the counts of Blois built, in the architecture of the twelfth century, a castle where the famous Thibault de ... ...eco- rated than the Louvre, the chateau of Henri II. It is in the style of architecture now called Renaissance, and presents 70 Catherine dé Medici t... ...features of that style. Therefore, at a pe- riod when a strict and jealous architecture ruled construc- tion, when the Middle Ages were not even consi... ...ateau of Blois had, therefore, the merit of repre- senting three orders of architecture, three epochs, three sys- tems, three dominions. Perhaps there... ...- sentation of the manners and customs and life of nations which is called Architecture. At the moment when Christophe was to visit the court, that pa... ...ntage of the chateau of Louis XII., which is composed of a ground-floor of arcades of fairy lightness supported by tiny columns resting at their base ...

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Marmion a Tale of Flodden Field

By: Sir Walter Scott

...uilt ere the art was known, By pointed aisle, and shafted stalk, The arcades of an alleyed walk To emulate in stone. On the deep walls the... ... hear her streams repine. The towers in different ages rose; Their various architecture shows The builders’ various hands: A mighty mass, that coul...

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Chantry House

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...dation!’ cried Emily. ‘It will be a dear de- licious old abbey, all Gothic architecture, with cloisters and ruins and ghosts.’ ‘Ghosts!’ said my mothe... ...closing it with their stately white pillars, green foliage, and the russet arcades beneath them. The stillness was wonderful to ears accustomed to the... ...habitants were at home. The last visit was at Hillside Rectory, a house of architecture somewhat similar to our own, but of the soft creamy stone whic... ... walking beside my chair; sketch- ing, botanising, or investigating church architecture, our newest hobby. I sketched, and the other two rambled about... ...or two congenial spirits, who shared his delight in scenery, pictures, and architecture. By and by he wrote to Clarence from Baden Baden - ‘Whom do yo... ...with some truth that they wanted to clear up the disputed points as to the architecture, as indeed they succeeded in doing. They had, however, nearly ...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...rairie village who did not appreciate her picture of wind- ing streets and arcades, but she had assembled the town council and dramatically defeated h... ...ked back through Wilmette and Evanston, discov- ered new forms of suburban architecture, and remem- bered her desire to recreate villages. She decided... ...e traveling salesman had murmured, “Dentistry,” she desperately hazarded, “Architecture.” “That’s a real nice art. I’ve always said—when Haydock & Sim... ...g display-space,’ I said, `but when you get that in, you want to have some architecture, too,’ I said, and he laughed and said he guessed maybe I was ... ...eresting pa- per we had, the year we took up English and French travel and architecture. But— And of course Mrs. Mott and Mrs. Warren are very importa... ...ly frame sheds of a Main Street to a way which led the eye down a vista of arcades and gardens. Assured that she was not quite mad in her belief that ... ...n the Thanatopsis. And as for trying to make a whole town in this Colonial architecture you talk 142 Main Street about— I do love nice things; to thi...

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20, 000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

...composed of large tree-plants; and the moment we penetrated under its vast arcades, I was struck by the singular position of their branches—a position... ..., standing broad upon their granite base, like the heavy columns of Tuscan architecture. Why had our incompre- hensible guide led us to the bottom of ... ...ound, from which one would still recognise the massive character of Tuscan architecture. Further on, some remains of a gi- gantic aqueduct; here the h... ...pporting the spring of the immense vault, an admirable specimen of natural architecture. Between the blocks of basalt wound long streams of lava, long...

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A Tramp Abroad

By: Mark Twain

... the cool of the morning. We were out of bed at break of day, feeling fresh and vig- orous, and took a hearty breakfast, then plunged down through the... ... front of the municipal buildings. CHAPTER XII What the Wives Saved THE RATHHAUS, OR MUNICIPAL BUILDING, is of the quaintest and most picturesque Midd... ...from a great distance down the bends of the river, and with just exactly room on the top of its head for its steepled and turreted and roof-clustered ... ...from a crevice in his upper teeth, laid him low, and said with composure: “Whar’s the boss?” “I am the boss,” said the editor, following this curious ... ...ose to them. This pile of stone is peculiar. From its base to the soaring tops of its mighty towers, all its lines and all its details vaguely suggest... ... work as this must necessarily be imperfect, yet they are of value. The top of the Trunk is arched; the arch is a perfect half-circle, in the Roman st...

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Ursula

By: Honoré de Balzac

... book there and make a very comfortable study of that extraordinary bit of architecture at the end.” On the other side of the passage, toward the gard... ...ise not to go out while he was away; at other times he took her to see the arcades, the shops, the boulevards; but nothing seemed to amuse or in- tere...

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The C‘Sars

By: Thomas de Quincey

...r evading the sultry noontides of July and August; of verdant cloisters or arcades, with roofs high over-arched, constructed entirely out of flexile s... ... silently and steadily through seven centuries ascended under the colossal architecture of the children of Romulus, to watch the unweaving of the gold...

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Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ime is gold, especially to you artists. I permit myself to say to you that architecture 64 Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau is the union of all the a... ...use. Four years earlier Monsieur Grindot had carried off the grand prix in architecture, and had lately returned from Rome where he had spent three ye... ... the meaning after they are once completed. This cloistral structure, with arcades and interior galleries built of free-stone, with a fountain at one ...

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The Reef

By: Edith Wharton

...struck him as having a kind of conscious in- telligence. Every line of the architecture, every arch of the bridges, the very sweep of the strong brigh... ...m- lessly, and took a cold wet walk, turning at length into the de- serted arcades of the Palais Royal, and finally drifting into one of its equally d...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...th martial splendour; a rare old city, with strange costumes and wonderful architecture, to delight the eyes of little Amelia, who had never before se... ...erfidious Albion, and scowl at you from over their cigars, in the Quadrant arcades at the present day— whenever the old Chevalier de Talonrouge spoke ...

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Chronicles of the Canongate

By: Sir Walter Scott

...e skippers and colliers of the East of Fife, venture even into the classic arcades of St. Andrews, and travel as much farther to the north as the brea... ...es, and that neglect of economizing space which characterizes old Scottish architecture. But there was far more room than my old friend required, even...

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The Count of Monte Cristo Voulume One

By: Alexandre Dumas

...e went on towards the light, which served in some manner as a guide. Three arcades were before them, and the middle one was used as a door. These arca... ...s elbow leaning on the column, and was reading with his back turned to the arcades, through the openings of which the newcomers contemplated him. This... ...Between the court and the garden, built in the heavy style of the imperial architecture, was the large and fashionable dwelling of the Count and Count...

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Scenes from a Courtesans Life

By: Honoré de Balzac

...cluded all fear of pursuit. He made his way in his own fashion through the arcades, took another cab on the Place du Chateau d’Eau, and bid the man go... ...ca of the 272 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Place Dauphine. The style of architecture is the same, of brick with binding courses of hewn stone. This... ... pace the immense hall known as the Salle des Pas-Perdus, was a miracle of architecture; and it is so still to the intelligent eye of the poet who hap... ...que—the three phases of ancient art—were harmonized in one building by the architecture of the twelfth century. This palace is a monumental history of... ...pre- cincts the stamp of the early races, and, in the Sainte-Chapelle, the architecture of Saint-Louis. Municipal Council (to you I speak), if you bes... ...on. While mak- ing his arrangements to die, he wondered how this marvel of architecture could exist in Paris so utterly unknown. He was two Luciens—on...

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Beatrix

By: Honoré de Balzac

... their primitive characteris- tics. Some rest on wooden columns which form arcades un- der which foot-passengers circulate, the floor planks bending b... ...fairly well built of a species of slaty stone with granite courses, has no architecture; it pre- sents to the eye a plain wall with windows at regular...

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Don Juan

By: George Byron

... up without debate, That each pull’d different ways with many an oath, ‘Arcades ambo,’ id est — blackguards both. Juan’s companion was a Romag... ...y Of those, forgetting the great place of rest, Who give themselves to architecture wholly; We know where things and men must end at best: ...

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The Lesser Bourgeoisie (The Middle Classes)

By: Honoré de Balzac

...the municipal com- mission “del ornamento” which superintends at Milan the architecture of street facades, and to which every house owner is compelled... ...is departing, following its kings who abandoned it. For one masterpiece of architecture saved from destruction by a Polish princess (the hotel Lambert... ...ed according to the rules of Grecian art, were beginning to appear in this architecture. A grocer, a lucky adulterator, now took the place of the form... ...-Sulpice, the master of the place, and all those who came to beg under the arcades of the church, safe from the persecutions of the police and be- nea...

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The Trial or More Links of the Daisy Chain

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...a smooth slope of lead, only broken by a skylight, a bit of churchwarden’s architecture still re- maining. The child had gone crashing against the win... ...n the wagons used in sum- mer. His drive, through the white cathedral-like arcades of forest, hung with transparent icicles, and with the deep blue sk...

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Ten Years Later

By: Alexandre Dumas

... “I think I have killed the insolent fellow. But, dear friend, if you ever need me you know that I am entirely devoted to you.” Thereupon Aramis had g... ...d of us.” “Yes, you are right.” “But where shall we go?” asked Porthos. “To the hotel, to be sure, to get our baggage and horses; and from there, if i...

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Heartsease or Brother's Wife

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...Heartsease druple range of splendid lime trees of uniform growth, the side arcades vaulted over by the meeting branches, and the central road, where t... ...ter. Wrangerton is a most forlorn place, an old den of the worst period of architecture, set down just beyond the pretty country, but in the programme...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...th martial splendour; a rare old city, with strange costumes and wonderful architecture, to delight the eyes of little Amelia, who had never before se... ...erfidious Albion, and scowl at you from over their cigars, in the Quadrant arcades at the present day— whenever the old Chevalier de Talonrouge spoke ...

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Dombey and Son

By: Charles Dickens

...e in her slumber, building a great many airy castles of the most fantastic architecture; and looking, in the dim shade, and in the close vicinity of a... ...water-carriers, great crowds of people, soldiers, coaches, military drums, arcades. Of the monotony of bells and wheels and horses’ feet being at leng...

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Salammbo

By: Gustave Flaubert

...u will wait for me at the foot of the aqueduct between the ninth and tenth arcades. Bring with you an iron pick, a crestless helmet, and leathern sand... ...uilt Punic galleys; and five rows of superposed arches, of a dumpy kind of architecture, with buttresses at their foot and lions’ heads at the top, re... ...r a few minutes extended on their backs, inhaling the air delight- fully . Arcades, one behind another, opened up amid large walls separating the vari... ...t. 64 Salammbo Then they wandered about, lost in the complications of the architecture. Suddenly they felt something strangely soft beneath their fee... ...ired a long way since then. It was a collection of little rooms of archaic architecture, built of palm trunks with corners of stone, and separated fro... ...way was crossed one found oneself in a vast quadrangular court bordered by arcades. In the cen- tre rose a mass of architecture with eight equal faces... ...ast quadrangular court bordered by arcades. In the cen- tre rose a mass of architecture with eight equal faces. It was surmounted by cupolas which thr... ... at the top. Files of white robes appeared between the colonnades, and the architecture was peopled with human statues, mo- tionless as statues of sto...

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John Keble's Parishes a History of Hursley and Otterbourne

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ed by death’s heads. It is of gray or veined marble, in the Doric style of architecture, and is in height thirteen feet, and in breadth nearly nine. T... ...ilding was much more difficult in those days than in these. Ecclesiastical architecture had scarcely begun to revive, and experts were few, if any ind... ...autiful wood in parts, of oak and beech trees, which formed lovely vaulted arcades, one of which Mr. Keble used to call Hursley Cathedral. The place w... ...t is chiefly of oak, fir, and beech, and on the southern side are the fine arcades of beechwood that Mr. Keble used to call Hursley Cathedral. From on...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Five

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...PHILOSOPHY OF FURNITURE In the internal decoration, if not in the external architecture of their residences, the English are supreme. The Italians hav... ...or Ponnonner com- mitted himself in a very extraordinary way. “Look at our architecture!” he exclaimed, greatly to the in- dignation of both the trave... ...ourse, may develop itself in vari- ous modes—in Painting, in Sculpture, in Architecture, in the Dance—very especially in Music—and very peculiarly, an... ...wift and silent lizard of the stones! But stay! these walls—these ivy-clad arcades— These mouldering plinths—these sad and blackened shafts— These vag...

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Ferragus Chief of the Devorants

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ll is discord, even the external decoration. The cabajoutis is to Parisian architecture what the capharnaum is to the apart- ment,—a poke-hole, where ... ...ntered on the boulevards of Paris, at the turn of a street, or beneath the arcades of the Palais-Royal, or in any part of the world where chance may o...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

By: Gilfillan

... to follow nature, even in works of mere luxury and elegance. Instanced in architecture and gar- dening, where all must be adapted to the genius and u... ...oetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 Shall call the winds through long arcades to roar, Proud to catch cold at a Venetian door; Conscious they act... ...ar the bays. Cibber preside Lord Chancellor of plays, Benson sole Judge of Architecture sit, And Namby Pamby be preferr’d for wit! I see the unfinish’... ..., as well as by many noble buildings of his own, revived the true taste of architecture in this kingdom.—P . 380 ‘Mad Máthesis:’ alluding to the stra...

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The Clever Woman of the Family

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... up to answer, “Naming and collecting is not science.” “And masonry is not architecture, but you can’t have ar- chitecture without it.” “One can have ... ...to me like a mason’s refusing to work at a wall with a man who liked Greek architecture when he pre- ferred Gothic!” If Rachel had been talking to Erm... ...on this sul- try summer’s day, Rachel found shade and coolness in the deep arcades of the beech woods, and freshness on the up- land lawns, as she rod...

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Anna Karenina

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

... all the morning, and the invalids, with their parasols, had flocked into the arcades. Kitty was walking there with her mother and the Moscow colonel, ... ...na answered Sviazhsky, who was ex pressing his surprise at her knowledge of architecture. “This new building ought to have been in harmony with the h... ... made an unpleasant impression on Dolly. “But Anna Arkadyevna’s knowledge of architecture is marvelous,’ said Tushke vitch. “To be sure;I heard Anna ... ...that he often went straight to her with questions relating to agriculture or architecture, sometimes even with questions relating to horse breeding or...

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