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Letter "G" » Gothic
«Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill.»
Author: Eric Gill
| Keywords:
added, classical, Daily Telegraph, fleet, fleetest, Fleet Street, Gothic, pill, real thing, sham, shams, steel, sugar, telegraph, The Daily Telegraph, The Telegraph, tower, Tower Bridge
«The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur.»
Author: John Corry
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buttress, buttresses, buttressing, churches, conventional, Gothic, grandeur, massive, spire, spires, stained
«Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.»
«The Gothic style historically, more perhaps than any other, released architecture from its earthbound confines.»
Author: Richard T. Feller
| Keywords:
earthbound, Gothic, Gothic architecture, historically, released
«Inside, the cathedral is a Gothic forest dappled in violet twilight and vast with quiet.»
Author: Wendy Insinger
| Keywords:
dapple, dappled, Gothic, Inside the, The Cathedral, twilight, violet, violets
«O! more than Gothic ignorance.»
«I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates t»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
| Keywords:
appropriates, cars, cathedrals, conceived, consumed, era, Gothic, population, usage
«The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
Gothic, Gothic architecture, imaginable, infinity
«Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list / the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
ballet dancer, Civil List, civil servant, civil servants, civil service, common soldier, constable, constables, dancers, embryo, Embryos, Gothic, in embryo, schoolmasters, services, slumber, steeple, steeples, taxation
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