| Kate Flint, Howard Morphy - 2000 - 242 דפים
...rhapsodized Sir Joseph Banks on seeing Fingal's Cave; and he supplied the answer to his own question: mere models or playthings, imitations as diminutive as his works will always be when compared with those of nature. What is now the boast of the architect! regularity the only part in which he... | |
| C. C. L. Hirschfeld, Hirschfeld Hirschfeld - 2001 - 550 דפים
...eye in delight" (p. 245^. 1 14. "Compared to this what are the cathedrals or palaces built by men! Mere models or playthings, imitations as diminutive as his works will always be when compared to those of nature. Where is now the boast of the architect! regularity the only part in which he fancied... | |
| Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 דפים
...rhetoricized Sir Joseph Banks on seeing Fingal's Cave; and he supplied the answer to his own question: mere models or playthings, imitations as diminutive as his works will always be when compared with those of nature. What is now the boast of the architect! regularity the only part in which he... | |
| Amiria Henare - 2005 - 356 דפים
...feet night standing in natural colonades ... Compard to this what are the cathedrals or the palaces built by man. Mere models or playthings imitations as diminutive as his works will always be when compard to those of nature." Here Banks echoed his earlier description of a natural rock archway at... | |
| Hermione De Almeida, George H. Gilpin - 2005 - 364 דפים
...off Scotland in 1772 and exclaimed, 'Compared to this what are the cathedral or palaces built by men! mere models or playthings, imitations as diminutive as his works will always be when compared with those of nature. What is now the boast of the architect! regularity the only part in which he... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1778 - 578 דפים
...thofe ufed in architecture. " Compared to this what are the cathedrals or the palaces built by men ? mere models or playthings, imitations as diminutive...to thofe of nature. Where is now the boaft of the architeft ? regularity, the only part in which he fancied himfelf to exceed his miftrefs, nature, is... | |
| 90 דפים
...into the shape of those usd in architecture. Compard to this what are the cathedrals or the palaces built by man. Mere models or playthings imitations as diminutive as his works will always be when compard to those of nature. Where is now the boast of the architect regularity the only part in which... | |
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