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a series of regularly spaced columns
- Between la Courtille and Saint-Laurent, your eye had already noticed, on the summit of an eminence crouching amid desert plains, a sort of edifice which resembled from a distance a ruined colonnade, mounted upon a basement with its foundation laid bare.1.3.2 — Vol 1 Bk 3 Chpt 2 — A Bird's-Eye View of Paris (73% in)
- The eye was, for a long time, wholly lost in this labyrinth, where there was nothing which did not possess its originality, its reason, its genius, its beauty,—nothing which did not proceed from art; beginning with the smallest house, with its painted and carved front, with external beams, elliptical door, with projecting stories, to the royal Louvre, which then had a colonnade of towers.1.3.2 — Vol 1 Bk 3 Chpt 2 — A Bird's-Eye View of Paris (24% in)
- , resembles the laws of Minos,—it is called in architecture, "the Messidor"** taste;—the Paris of Napoleon in the Place Vendome: this one is sublime, a column of bronze made of cannons;—the Paris of the Restoration, at the Bourse: a very white colonnade supporting a very smooth frieze; the whole is square and cost twenty millions.1.3.2 — Vol 1 Bk 3 Chpt 2 — A Bird's-Eye View of Paris (82% in)
- As for the Palace of the Bourse, which is Greek as to its colonnade, Roman in the round arches of its doors and windows, of the Renaissance by virtue of its flattened vault, it is indubitably a very correct and very pure monument; the proof is that it is crowned with an attic, such as was never seen in Athens, a beautiful, straight line, gracefully broken here and there by stovepipes.1.3.2 — Vol 1 Bk 3 Chpt 2 — A Bird's-Eye View of Paris (88% in)
- It is true that the architect was at a good deal of trouble to conceal the clock face, which would have destroyed the purity of the fine lines of the facade; but, on the other hand, we have that colonnade which circles round the edifice and under which, on days of high religious ceremony, the theories of the stock-brokers and the courtiers of commerce can be developed so majestically.1.3.2 — Vol 1 Bk 3 Chpt 2 — A Bird's-Eye View of Paris (90% in)
- No doubt, when one contemplates these two Bibles, laid so broadly open in the centuries, it is permissible to regret the visible majesty of the writing of granite, those gigantic alphabets formulated in colonnades, in pylons, in obelisks, those sorts of human mountains which cover the world and the past, from the pyramid to the bell tower, from Cheops to Strasburg.1.5.2 — Vol 1 Bk 5 Chpt 2 — This Will Kill That (91% in)
- ...a limestone hillock, an oblong mass of masonry fifteen feet in height, thirty wide, forty long, with a gate, an external railing and a platform; on this platform sixteen enormous pillars of rough hewn stone, thirty feet in height, arranged in a colonnade round three of the four sides of the mass which support them, bound together at their summits by heavy beams, whence hung chains at intervals; on all these chains, skeletons; in the vicinity, on the plain, a stone cross and two gibbets...2.11.4 — Vol 2 Bk 11 Chpt 4 — The Marriage of Quasimodo (28% in)
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