A History of the Three Cathedrals Dedicated to St. Paul in London: With Reference Chiefly to Their Structure and Architecture, and the Sources Whence the Necessary Funds Were Derived |
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Page 21 - Beginning; ill-design'd, because the Architect gave not butment enough to counterpoise, and resist the Weight of the Roof from spreading the Walls: for, the Eye alone will discover to any Man, that those Pillars, as vast as they are, even eleven Foot diameter, are bent outwards at least six Inches from their first position; which being done on both Sides, it necessarily follows that the whole Roof must first open in large and wide Cracks along by the Walls and Windows, and lastly drop down between...
Page 136 - I take leave, first, to declare I never designed a balustrade. Persons of little skill in architecture did expect, I believe, to see something they had been used to in Gothic structures ; and ladies think nothing well without an edging.
Page 46 - Paul's, pass through the body of the church like a porter, yet presume not to fetch so much as one whole turn in the middle isle, no nor to cast an eye to Si quis door, pasted and plastered up with serving-men's supplications...
Page 41 - Is the land's epitome, or you may call it the lesser isle of Great Britain. It is more than this, the whole world's map, which you may here discern in its perfectest motion, justling and turning. It is a heap of stones and men, with a vast confusion of languages; and were the steeple not sanctified, nothing liker Babel.
Page 41 - The noise in it is like that of bees, a strange humming or buzz mixed, of walking, tongues, and feet ; it is a kind of still roar or loud whisper.
Page 47 - Saw'st thou ever SI-QUIS patch'd on Paul's church door, To seek some vacant vicarage before ? Who wants a churchman, that can service say, Read fast and fair his monthly homily ? And wed and bury and make christen-souls ? Come to the left-side alley of Saint Pauls.
Page 78 - Paul's, and several expert workmen, we went about to survey the general decays of that ancient and venerable church, and to set down in writing the particulars of what was fit to bedone, with the charge thereof, giving our opinion from article to article.
Page 32 - Cathedral), is also, of ancient building, a strong tower of stone, made for Bell Towers. The one of them, to wit, next to the palace, is at this present to the use of the same palace.
Page 47 - He sette not his benefice to hire, And lette his shepe acombred in the mire, And ran unto London, unto Seint Poules, To seken him a chanterie for soules, Or with a brotherhede to be withold : But dwelt at home, and kepte wel his fold, So that the wolf ne made it not miscarie. He was a shepherd, and no mercenarie. And though he holy were, and vertuous, He was to sinful men not dispitous...
Page 44 - ... log, and approach not within five fathom of that pillar; but bend your course directly in the middle line, that the whole body of the church may appear to be yours; where, in view of all, you may publish your suit in what manner you affect most, either with the slide of your...