Thus, during the first six thousand years of the world, from the most immemorial pagoda of Hindustan, to the cathedral of Cologne, architecture was the great handwriting of the human race.
In India, Vyasa is branching, strange, impenetrable as a pagoda. In Egyptian Orient, poetry has like the edifices, grandeur and tranquillity of line; in antique Greece, beauty, serenity, calm; in Christian Europe, the Catholic majesty, the popular naivete, the rich and luxuriant vegetation of an epoch of renewal.
Greece crowned her mountains with a temple harmonious to the eye; India disembowelled hers, to chisel therein those monstrous subterranean pagodas, borne up by gigantic rows of granite elephants.
Of course, there was no perspective whatever, which only gave it a peculiar charm to Rose, for in one place a lovely lady, with blue knitting-needles in her hair, sat directly upon the spire of a stately
pagoda. In another charming view a brook appeared to flow in at the front door of a stout gentleman's house, and out at his chimney.
This trainer of canary-birds, this architect of a
pagoda for white mice, is (as Sir Percival himself has told me) one of the first experimental chemists living, and has discovered, among other wonderful inventions, a means of petrifying the body after death, so as to preserve it, as hard as marble, to the end of time.
Maggie stood in dismay and terror, while Tom got up from the floor and walked away, pale, from the scattered ruins of his
pagoda, and Lucy looked on mutely, like a kitten pausing from its lapping.
Mosques, minarets, temples, fakirs,
pagodas, tigers, snakes, elephants!
What did he care for Spain and its cities, Cordova, Toledo, Leon; what to him were the
pagodas of Burmah and the lagoons of South Sea Islands?
But, after the war, Ernie was promoted to the role of manager at
Pagoda Shoes and left the Cynon Valley to run stores in Llanelli and Ebbw Vale.
In the early 1960s, Hayashi also built much-needed affordable housing for locals, Honolulu's
Pagoda Terrace and the
Pagoda Inn, now called Liona Apartments, and he built the commercial structure called King Center.
Through the help of local art experts and scholars, preliminary result revealed that the Buddha head might be the missing Buddha head of the Four Gate
Pagoda at the Shengtong Monastery in northern China.