Arches
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It was therefore necessary to fix piles in the bed of the river so as to sustain the floor of the bridge and establish a pile-driver to act on the tops of these piles, which would thus form two
arches
and allow the bridge to support heavy loads.
Here, bridges were thrown from one rock to another; there,
arches
like those of a wave, into the depths of which the eye could not penetrate; in one place, large vaulted excavations presented a monumental aspect; in another, a crowd of columns, spires, and arches, such as no Gothic cathedral ever possessed.
Irregular arches, strange moldings, appeared on the columns erected by nature in thousands from the first epochs of the formation of the globe.
The building, when entire, had never been above sixteen feet long by twelve feet in breadth, and the roof, low in proportion, rested upon four concentric
arches
which sprung from the four corners of the building, each supported upon a short and heavy pillar.
The ribs of two of these
arches
remained, though the roof had fallen down betwixt them; over the others it remained entire.
Methinks, I hear the sound of time long pass'dStill murmuring o'er us, in the lofty voidOf these dark arches, like the ling'ring voicesOf those who long within their graves have slept.
Long had the smouldering fire of discord glowed between the tyrant father and his savage son--long had I nursed, in secret, the unnatural hatred--it blazed forth in an hour of drunken wassail, and at his own board fell my oppressor by the hand of his own son--such are the secrets these vaults conceal!--Rend asunder, ye accursed arches," she added, looking up towards the roof, "and bury in your fall all who are conscious of the hideous mystery!""And thou, creature of guilt and misery," said Cedric, "what became thy lot on the death of thy ravisher?"
the battlements, ye loitering villains!" he exclaimed, raising his stentorian voice till the
arches
around rung again, "to the battlements, or I will splinter your bones with this truncheon!"
The deep prolonged notes, raised by a hundred masculine voices accustomed to combine in the choral chant, arose to the vaulted roof of the hall, and rolled on amongst its
arches
with the pleasing yet solemn sound of the rushing of mighty waters.
Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet-ground in her life; it was all ridges and furrows; the balls were live hedgehogs, the mallets live flamingoes, and the soldiers had to double themselves up and to stand on their hands and feet, to make the
arches.
By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it back, the fight was over, and both the hedgehogs were out of sight: 'but it doesn't matter much,' thought Alice, 'as all the
arches
are gone from this side of the ground.'
Those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave off being
arches
to do this, so that by the end of half an hour or so there were no
arches
left, and all the players, except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and under sentence of execution.
There was a grass-grown track descending the forest aisle between hoar and knotty shafts and under branched
arches.
A few paces distant, an enormous pillar, then another, then another; seven pillars in all, down the length of the hall, sustaining the spring of the
arches
of the double vault, in the centre of its width.
and the grand hall, with its gilding, its azure, its statues, its pointed arches, its pillars, its immense vault, all fretted with carvings?
Was it not Louis XIV., fulfilling the request of Louis XIII.?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 Saxon architect completed the erection of the first pillars of the nave, when the pointed arch, which dates from the Crusade, arrived and placed itself as a conqueror upon the large Romanesque capitals which should support only round
arches.
Close to Cluny, that Roman palace, with fine round arches, were oncethe hot baths of Julian.
Fifty years later, when the Renaissance began to mingle with this unity which was so severe and yet so varied, the dazzling luxury of its fantasies and systems, its debasements of Roman round arches, Greek columns, and Gothic bases, its sculpture which was so tender and so ideal, its peculiar taste for arabesques and acanthus leaves, its architectural paganism, contemporary with Luther, Paris, was perhaps, still more beautiful, although less harmonious to the eye, and to the thought.
As for the Palace of the Bourse, which is Greek as to its colonnade, Roman in the round
arches
of its doors and windows, of the Renaissance by virtue of its flattened vault, it is indubitably a very correct and very pure monument; the proof is that it is crowned with an attic, such as was never seen in Athens, a beautiful, straight line, gracefully broken here and there by stovepipes.
No one had yet observed in the gallery of the statues of the kings, carved directly above the
arches
of the portal, a strange spectator, who had, up to that time, observed everything with such impassiveness, with a neck so strained, a visage so hideous that, in his motley accoutrement of red and violet, he might have been taken for one of those stone monsters through whose mouths the long gutters of the cathedral have discharged their waters for six hundred years.
The long windows of the choir showed the upper extremities of their
arches
above the black draperies, and their painted panes, traversed by a ray of moonlight had no longer any hues but the doubtful colors of night, a sort of violet, white and blue, whose tint is found only on the faces of the dead.
The river, which ruffles its waters against the
arches
of so many bridges, against the points of so many islands, was wavering with silvery folds.
From the Vicus Apollinis they turned to the Boarium, and then entered the Forum Romanum, where on clear days, before sunset, crowds of idle people assembled to stroll among the columns, to tell and hear news, to see noted people borne past in litters, and finally to look in at the jewellery-shops, the book-shops, the
arches
where coin was changed, shops for silk, bronze, and all other articles with which the buildings covering that part of the market placed opposite the Capitol were filled.
From the corridor, from chambers in the lower story intended for servant-women and attendants, from the bath, from the
arches
of lower dwellings, from the whole house, crowds of slaves began to hurry out, and the cries of "Heu! heu, me miserum!" were heard.
Flour from torn bags whitened like snow the whole space from the granary to the
arches
of Drusus and Germanicus.
There was world-ruling Rome in flames, and he, standing on the
arches
of the aqueduct with a golden lute, conspicuous, purple, admired, magnificent, poetic.
Petronius, halting at the foot of the arches, gave command to bring him a white horse, and, mounting, rode on, at the head of the cavalcade, between the deep ranks of pretorians, to the black, howling multitude; he was unarmed, having only a slender ivory cane which he carried habitually.
Silver-leafed trees, the white marble of villas, and the
arches
of aqueducts, stretching through the plain toward the city, were emerging from shade.
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