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They seemed conversing familiarly and eagerly as they passed along the smooth sands, till a curve in the wooded shore hid them from her view. "Why do I love him so," said the girl mechanically, "and yet wrestle against that love? Dark forebodings tell me that Aphrodite smiles not on our vows. Woe is me! What be the end?" Mueller on the Doric Dialect.
X. for an illustration of a Christian Basilica. See chapter on Saracenic Architecture. Paper communicated to the Royal Institute of Architects. Buildings of the Doric Order. The architecture of Greece has a value far higher than that attaching to any of the styles which preceded it, on account of the beauty of the buildings and the astonishing refinement which the best of them display.
Such an ornament is more naturally constructed in wood than in stone or marble, but if the real derivation of the Ionic order, as of the Doric, be in fact from timber structures, the dentil band is apparently the only feature in which that origin can now be traced.
Bruce’s school, he was a shy, unpolished country lad, speaking the broad dialect of the pitmen; and the other boys would occasionally tease him, for the purpose of provoking an outburst of his Killingworth Doric. As the shyness got rubbed off, his love of fun began to show itself, and he was found able enough to hold his own amongst the other boys.
They consist of patterns made entirely of straight lines interlacing, and, while preserving the severity which is characteristic of the style, they permit of the introduction of considerable richness. The principal remaining examples or fragments of Greek Doric may be enumerated as follows: Temple of Athena, on the rock of Sunium, in Attica. Temple of Nemesis, at Rhamnus, in Attica. The Propylæa.
We were very pleased with the fine echo in this Veronese amphitheatre. The fortifications of the city are remarkably fine. Sanmicheli, the Italian engineer who planned them, was certainly a great architect; the Doric gate, Porta Strippa, Porta Nuova, and many of the buildings and palaces in Verona, were designed and built by him, and are good examples of his remarkable powers.
I'm all right otherwise, and there will soon be need of me." "More campaigning?" she anxiously inquired, her eyes one moment uplifting. "Probably. Those fellows have no idea of quitting." Another interval of silence. The long, lazy, rolling swell of the Pacific had changed during the day to an abrupt and tumultuous upheaval that tossed the Doric like a cork and made locomotion a problem.
From this people the Doric order of architecture a style typical of majesty and imposing grandeur, and the one the most employed by the Greeks in the construction of their temples derived its origin. Pho'cis. On the east of Locris, AEtolia, and Doris was Phocis, a mountainous region, bordered on the south by the Corinthian Gulf.
However, since our plan calls for it, we set it forth as we have received it from our teachers, so that if anybody cares to set to work with attention to these laws, he may find the proportions stated by which he can construct correct and faultless examples of temples in the Doric fashion.
To the right and left of the lintel, which rests upon the jambs, there are to be projections fashioned like projecting bases and jointed to a nicety with the cymatium itself. If the doorways are to be of the Ionic style, the height of the aperture should be reached in the same manner as in the Doric.
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