The Promise of American Architecture: Addresses at the Annual Dinner of the American Institute of Architects, 1905 |
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Page 65 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Page 31 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Page 67 - Here's to the United States!" said the first speaker, "bounded on the north by British America, on the south by the Gulf of Mexico, on the east by the Atlantic, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean!
Page 41 - We took for our model what is called the Maison quarree of Nismes, one of the most beautiful, if not the most beautiful and precious morsel of architecture, left us by antiquity. It was built by Caius and Lucius Caesar, and repaired by Louis XIV., and has the suffrage of all the judges of architecture, who have seen it, as yielding to no one of the beautiful monuments of Greece, Rome, Palmyra, and Balbec, which late travellers have communicated to us.
Page 68 - Here's to the United States ! — bounded on the north by the North Pole, on the south by the South Pole, on the east by the rising sun, and on the west by the setting sun!
Page 41 - ... an object and proof of national good taste, and the regret and mortification of erecting a monument of our barbarism, which will be loaded with execrations as long as it shall endure The plans are in good forwardness, and I hope will be ready within three or four weeks.
Page 68 - The Grand Celestial Bed, whose magical influences are now celebrated from pole to pole and from the rising to the setting of the sun, is twelve feet long by nine feet wide, supported by forty pillars of brilliant glass of the most exquisite workmanship, in richly variegated colours. The super-Celestial Dome of the bed which contains the odoriferous balmy and ethereal spices, odours and essences, which is the grand reservoir...
Page 68 - I give you the United States ! — bounded on the north by the Aurora Borealis, on the south by the precession of the Equinoxes, on the east by the primeval chaos, and on the west by the Day of Judgment!
Page 40 - I received this summer a letter from Messrs. Buchanan and Hay, as Directors of the public buildings, desiring I would have drawn for them, plans of sundry buildings, and, in the first place, of a capitol. They fixed, for their receiving this plan, a day which was within about six weeks of that on which their letter came to my hand. I engaged an architect of capital abilities in this business. Much time was requisite, after .the external form was agreed on, to make the internal distribution convenient...
Page 41 - ... countrymen unless we avail ourselves of every occasion when public buildings are to be erected, of presenting to them models for their study and imitation? Pray try if you can effect the stopping of this work. I have written also to ER [Edmund Randolph] on the subject.