The same perfect harmony of structure which distinguishes the western and southern porches is visible in the northern, and the latter is even richer in detail.
The bases of the pillars of the bays in the south and the western porches give some examples of [Illustration: L'Âne qui Vielle] men and women in the thralls of vice.
Regarded merely as works of art, a large proportion of the two thousand odd statues in the porches of Chartres deserve almost as much praise as they excite interest.
As in the case of the sculptured porches so here, when we study and admire the conception and execution of these storied windows, the question arises, Who was it who arranged, who was it who coloured this glorious glass?
The fact that these porches are opened and advanced, verandah-like, beyond the line of the building, relieving thereby the severity of it, is significant.
The windows were raised and enlarged with the exception of those which were blinded by the porches of the upper church.
Germain at Paris, and the Cathedral of Bourges and of Alby rival, but cannot claim to surpass, in harmonious effect and delicate grace of detail, the open porches of Chartres.
The Cathedral is a Bible in stone, and the porches a gospel in relief, a sculptured catechism, a preface and a résumé of the book.
Louis, the fashion of lateral porches was revived, they were no longer used for sacred purposes as before, but merely as shelters for the faithful coming into or going out of the church.
The first time that the traveller beholds the porches of Chartres he is filled with admiration for the exquisite effect of the whole, and afterwards for the exquisite details of which that whole is composed.
For the early buildings, the style of which was based on that of the Roman basilicas, had closed porches beneath which persons of importance were buried, catechumens were instructed and baptized, and exorcisms of the devil performed.
If it is not called that it ought to be, for these Porches stride out over the pavement on their ancient legs of stone and wood as if to knock together the overhanging brows of their fantastic upper stories.
The sight-seers who wandered up and down under the Porches or gaped in groups in the Place St Sauveur seemed unreal to me; the shadow of what had probably again happened was my reality.
Through one of the doorways a glimpse could be seen of school-desks, grey and cracked and dry as the legs of the Porches themselves.
The visitors descended the Lainerie to the vedettes again; the Porches watched them go; and once more I had the Place St Sauveur to myself.
Little groups of people moved across the lime-shaded Square, all in one direction, seeking the Porches and the Lainerie, leaving themselves comfortable time for the vedette.
Aleviso of Florence is unusually credited with the work upon the doors and lintels of the old churches within the palace, the porches of the Vossnesenski, Blagovieshchenski, and other Cathedrals within the Kremlin.
They are marked by dignity and simplicity of design, and by the same picturesque massing of gables and roofs and porches which has already been remarked of the churches.
The west front of Peterborough is likewise a mask or screen, mainly composed of three colossal recessed arches, whose vast scale completely dwarfs the little porches which give admittance to the church.
Externally the orders appear in porches and in colossal pilasters, with well designed entablatures, and windows of Italian model.
Such a treatment appears in several tombs at Beni-Hassan, in which columns are reserved in cutting away the rock, both in the chapel-chambers and in the vestibules or porches which precede them.
The temple of +Sadri+ is much more extensive, twenty minor domes and one of larger size forming cruciform porches on all four sides of the central sikhra.
In most French church façades the porches were the most striking features, with their deep shadows and sculptured arches.
The Romanesque porches were usually limited in depth to the thickness of the front wall.
It was the noblest and most perfect of a class of buildings whose prototype is found in the monumental columnar porches of the palace-group at Persepolis.
It is preceded by much more imposing porches (mantapas) and hypostyle halls or choultries, the latter being sometimes of extraordinary extent, though seldom lofty.
This is a square hall built of terra-cotta, with four three-arched porches and nine towers, more Saracenic than Brahman in general aspect.
Externally the western porches and portals were the most important features of the design, producing an imposing effect by their massive arches, clustered piers, richly carved mouldings, and deep shadows.
The women came out of the gates or stood in the porches of their huts, pointing him out to each other and gazing at him as he passed.
Lamps were burning before the porches of the houses and about five lamps more along the walls lit up the yard.
And he measured the length of the building over against it, which was separated at the back of it: and the galleries on both sides a hundred cubits: and the inner temple, and the porches of the court.
And the windows thereof, and the porches round about, as the other windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
The little chamber thereof, and the front thereof, and the porch thereof as before: and the windows thereof, and the porches thereof round about it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
By the aid of field glasses he saw across the river the white porches of his home filled with Federal officers, and simultaneously there was wafted on the breeze the strains of "Yankee Doodle" and "Hail Columbia.
Visitors flocked to Fredericksburg and long before the beginning thousands had gathered, sidewalks, steps and porches were crowded with merry throngs in carnival mood.
The farmhouse was spotless from cellar to attic, the wooden walks and porchesscrubbed clean and smooth.
All the week-end work of the farmhouse was done: the walks and porches scrubbed, the entire house cleaned, the shelves in the cellar filled with pies and cakes.
He asked himself if he had ever known hunger and thirst; then other letters of fire came into his brain, but through the porches of his ears.
And the two flutes made dreamy music that sent into the porches of the ear a silvery, feverish mist.
The Shadow rolls into our caves; our brain is benumbed by its caresses; it closes the porches of the ear, and gently strikes down our warring members.
In the porches around this pool was an impotent man; he had labored under a bodily infirmity for thirty and eight years.
Great care was taken by the medieval architects to make the porches of their churches as beautiful as possible.
And well ever have they done in crowding these noble porches with the sacred emblems of our holy faith.
In a few church porches there are, or have been, galleries, which seem to have been intended to accommodate a choir for these and other festive occasions.
The parvise is to be found over church porches in all parts of England.
Many porches seem originally not to have had doors, but marks exist which indicate that barriers to keep out cattle were used.
Nor are there in Athens itself many statues of the noble human beings who paced their porchesand reclined beneath their shade.
Both of these buildings have porches splendidly encrusted with sculptures, half classical, half mediæval, marking the transition from ancient to modern art.
The basreliefs are carved on four marble tablets placed beside the porches of the church, and corresponding in size and shape with the chief doorways.
The illusion is completely broken, and we turn to gather the first violets of February, and to wonder at the quaint postures of a praying mantis on the grass grown tiers and porches fringed with fern.
The Druid's mistletoe graced the church porches of England and of France, and no blood lingered on its berries.
The Crucifixion seldom occurs over doors: while over porches a crucifix is very common.
On the warm summer evening they were gathered on the porches at the front of the houses and a mob of children played in the dusty streets.
The light of the summer evening had begun to fall and the faces of the people made soft little ovals of light as they stood grouped under the dark porches or by the fences in Wilmott Street.
She was back in Panama again--in Panama, where for endless hours on dark porches young men tease young women and tell them that they are beautiful.
The portal is injured by being thrown into a glare of light, when it was intended to stand in shadow, as you will see in the north and south porches over the transept portals.
There are threeporches on the west façade, all fairly well filled with foliaged ornament and bas-reliefs.
Secession flags blossomed in windows and from roofs; were waved from doors and porches by girls and women; were shaken in mad exultation by boys on the sidewalks; hung upon lamp-posts, and were stretched from side to side of the street.
The men of the family did honors as ushers, and the boys—the grandsons—patrolled the porches and lawn with ices and salads and delicious yellow-iced cakes.
President of the United States and others in authority; with scanty congregations in the churches, and growing throngs of excited talkers at the street corners, and knots of dark-browed men in hotel lobbies, and the porches of private houses.
Porches of similar plan give access to the interior, both on the western and northern sides; but their tympana or panels are without ornament.
But even the standard of the seventeenth century, of which many a specimen has been preserved elsewhere, notably in the porches of much older churches, has not been maintained into our times.
Laura remembered a long house with porches on Ellis Street, "running almost to Greene," between 7th and 8th, where slaves were herded and kept for market day.
She stated that there was a long house with porches on Ellis between 7th and 8th, where a garage now stands.
According to an old poem in the British Museum, however, Ivy was considered by some good people only fit to ornament the porches and outer passages of houses, but not the interior.
Already the orchestra was tuning up, the wide porches were filling with well-dressed people, while a stream of coaches at the door was delivering the arrivals on the special from Colon.
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