And who put the cold, white panes in the place of those windows," high in color, "which caused the astonished eyes of our fathers to hesitate between the rose of the grand portal and the
arches of the apse?
The garden is best to be square, encompassed on all the four sides with a stately
arched hedge.
The style of these buildings evinces that the architect possessed neither the art of using lime or cement of any kind, nor the skill to throw an
arch, construct a roof, or erect a stair ; and yet, with all this ignorance, showed great ingenuity in selecting the situation of Burghs, and regulating the access to them, as well as neatness and regularity in the erection, since the buildings themselves show a style of advance in the arts scarcely consistent with the ignorance of so many of the principal branches of architectural knowledge.
That makes Prince mad, and he holds on just to plague
Arch, so they don't speak to one another, if they can help it, and that's the row."
Before long they saw ahead of them a fine big
arch spanning the road, and when they came nearer they found that the
arch was beautifully carved and decorated with rich colors.
For this purpose, they used to mount the staircase together, to the second story of the house, where, at the termination of a wide entry, there was an
arched window, of uncommonly large dimensions, shaded by a pair of curtains.
And the doors are
arched with the peculiar
arch we see in Moorish pictures; the floors are laid in varicolored diamond flags; in tesselated, many-colored porcelain squares wrought in the furnaces of Fez; in red tiles and broad bricks that time cannot wear; there is no furniture in the rooms (of Jewish dwellings) save divans--what there is in Moorish ones no man may know; within their sacred walls no Christian dog can enter.
Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime, Said then the lost
Arch Angel, this the seat That we must change for Heav'n, this mournful gloom For that celestial light?
At the top of the broad thoroughfare, Thomson turned to the left through the Pall Mall
Arch and passed into St.
Here rose in crumbling grandeur the first evidences I had seen of the ancient civilization which once had graced fair Albion--a single, time-worn
arch of masonry.
DOWN in the deep blue sea lived Ripple, a happy little Water-Spirit; all day long she danced beneath the coral
arches, made garlands of bright ocean flowers, or floated on the great waves that sparkled in the sunlight; but the pastime that she loved best was lying in the many-colored shells upon the shore, listening to the low, murmuring music the waves had taught them long ago; and here for hours the little Spirit lay watching the sea and sky, while singing gayly to herself.
Her pearly locks Resemble snow-coils on the mountain top; Her eyebrows
arch -- the crescent moon.