 HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets, who build them with small cost....  Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political - Pàgina 222per Francis Bacon - 1812 - 295 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pàgines
...more people in the world who want to break out of houses. Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) American author Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, essayist Anita Loos (1893-1981) American screenwriter... | |
 | Robert Mathews - 1991 - 190 pàgines
...features Construction drawings Model Building Regulations Agrément Certificates British Standards Houses are built to live in and not to look on: therefore...preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626). DESIGN is the crucial first step in the building process. No matter how... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pàgines
...scientist, philosopher, literary theorist. The Poetic* ofSfixe, ch. I, 'The House" (1958; tr. 1964). 2 al FRANCIS BACON (l S61-1626). English philosopher, essayist, statesman. f".n. "Of Building" (1597-1625).... | |
 | John Summerson, John Newenham Summerson, Sir - 1993 - 592 pàgines
...and influential house, may be the point of departure of this theme. 83. 6. 'Leave the goodly fabric of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets,' wrote Bacon, loe. at. (Note i). 85. 7. The long gallery is a peculiarly English feature. There were,... | |
 | Hanno-Walter Kruft - 1994 - 802 pàgines
...the subject. No. 45 of his Essays is called 'Of Building', and it opens with a fortbright demand : Houses are built to live in, and not to look on; therefore...except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics and houses, lor beauty alone, to the enchamed palaces of the poets." The most importam consideration... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pàgines
...1990). News conference, Aug. 30, 1990, Dublin. On his 4'ii-year ordeal as a hostage. Houses and Homes 1 Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. FRANCIS BACON, (1561-1626) British philosopher, essayist, statesman. Fssavs, "Of Building" (1597-1... | |
 | C.C. Gaither - 2019 - 390 pàgines
...physician. Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography The Character of Form (p. 380) ARCHITECTURE Bacon, Francis Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. In Brian Vickers (Editor) Francis Bacon Essays Of Buildings (p. 427) He that builds a fair house upon... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 pàgines
...Aesop, Gasca President of Peru; and Socrates* may go likewise amongst them; with others. 45. OF BUILDING Houses are built to live in, and not to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity,14 except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to... | |
 | Roy Eriksen - 2001 - 224 pàgines
...Andrea del Pozzo, Ingresso di S Ignazio in Paradiso, Church of S. Ignazio, Rome Leave the goodly fabric of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets, who build them with small cost. —Francis Bacon, "Of Building" In this book I have argued that architecture and literature share a... | |
 | Christopher Harper-Bill, Carole Rawcliffe, Richard George Wilson - 2002 - 388 pàgines
...his greatest son, Francis, when he wrote: 'Houses are built to live in and not to be looked at ... Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only,...enchanted palaces of the poets; who build them with small cost.'91 89 D. MacCulloch, Suffolk and the Tudors: Politics and Religion in an English County 1500-1600,... | |
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