A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.

And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the h ...

Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.

Architecture is frozen music.

Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As best gem upon her zone.

For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;

Grandeur consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mys ...

Nor did there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculpture graven.

Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing.

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and d ...