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Letter "A" » Architecture
"Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use
be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had."
Author: Francis Bacon
About: Architecture
"There was King Bradmond's palace,
Was never none richer, the story says:
For all the windows and the walls
Were painted with gold, both towers and halls;
Pillars and doors all were of brass;
Windows of latten were set with glass;
It was so rich in many wise,
That it was like a paradise."
Author: Sir Bevis of Hamptoun
About: Architecture
"For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down
the middle wall of partition between us; . . ."
Author: Bible
About: Architecture
"And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made
ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither
hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it
was in building."
Author: Bible
About: Architecture
"The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of
the corner."
Author: Bible
About: Architecture
"Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new, before they're ended."
Author: Colley Cibber
About: Architecture
"Silently as a dream the fabric rose;
No sound of hammer or of saw was there."
Author: William Cowper
About: Architecture
"A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a
sheet of paper."
Author: Charles Dickens
About: Architecture
"The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the
insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite
blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate
finish, as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of
vegetable beauty."
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
About: Architecture
"Earth proudly wears the Parthenon
As best gem upon her zone."
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
About: Architecture
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