The centuries, the revolutions, which at least devastate with impartiality and grandeur, have been joined by a cloud of school architects, licensed, sworn, and bound by oath; defacing with the discernment and choice of bad taste, substituting the
An architect of good taste amputated it (1787), and considered it sufficient to mask the wound with that large, leaden plaster, which resembles a pot cover.
Perfectly true, my friend," resumed D'Artagnan; "but the
architects were probably making their calculations on a basis of the probability of your marrying again.
Good," said Aramis to himself, "it seems I am an
architect, then.
said the prince to his son, pointing to the
architect.
Going round a hole where the workmen were slaking lime, he stood still with the
architect and began talking rather warmly.
The archaeologist and the
architect were left on the great stone steps smiling at each other; but whatever their common interests, they presented a considerable personal contrast, and the fanciful might even have found some contradiction in each considered individually.
Come then, Miss Marian," said the young
architect, gaily, but with perfect courtesy; "you will not have far to walk.
The
architect who designed it must have been a genius, though I cannot help thinking that his talents would have been better employed in contriving puzzles than in shaping human habitations.
Thus it is observable that the buildings which a single
architect has planned and executed, are generally more elegant and commodious than those which several have attempted to improve, by making old walls serve for purposes for which they were not originally built.
to Edna his letter of disapproval carried instructions--the most minute instructions--to a well-known
architect concerning the remodeling of his home, changes which he had long contemplated, and which he desired carried forward during his temporary absence.
Like most old fashioned pulpits, it was a very lofty one, and since a regular stairs to such a height would, by its long angle with the floor, seriously contract the already small area of the chapel, the
architect, it seemed, had acted upon the hint of Father Mapple, and finished the pulpit without a stairs, substituting a perpendicular side ladder, like those used in mounting a ship from a boat at sea.
