This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... "Each clown may rise And climb the skies When he hath found a stair; But joy to him That dares to climb, And hath no help but air." Wither, Philarete. Locality. A Few words may not perhaps be out of place on the practical aspects of the subject, the age, material and style, best suited for experiment. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... "Each clown may rise And climb the skies When he hath found a stair; But joy to him That dares to climb, And hath no help but air." Wither, Philarete. Locality. A Few words may not perhaps be out of place on the practical aspects of the subject, the age, material and style, best suited for experiment. The remarks must be necessarily general, as no definite rule can be made to fit the varying conditions, produced on the material by climate and by individual taste on style. Again, easy though it might appear to follow the example of the Climber's Guides and say, "these counties, Devonshire or Kent, or those towns, perhaps Chester or Hitchin, offer the best fields for exploration," yet, owing to the deplorable condition of society at the present day, which confines the householder exclusively to his own roof tree and, unfortunate paradox, prevents the public buildings laying open their exteriors equally with their interiors, such a course would be merely tantalising. Mention is only therefore made generally of the best type or date of architecture to be sought for by those who have opportunities of choice, and a few hints given as to the proper methods of dealing with them. Happy is the Englishman o'er whose brow rests an aged chimney pot or whose house is his castle. Most of us, alas, have to be content with practising on our castles in the air. Indubitably the buildings of monasteries, colleges Buildings. or great schools offer the best training academies for those who desire to become masters of the art; and this for several reasons. They are as a rule collections of buildings erected at various dates and offering samples of every kind of architecture, all more or less joined together to form an irregular whole, fascinating as the...
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