Handbook of the Library of CongressCurtis & Cameron, 1909 - 112 頁 |
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... Heads The Portico Busts Mr. Pratt's Spandrel Figures THE MAIN ENTRANCE Mr. Warner's Bronze Doors Mr. Macmonnies's Bronze Door MAIN ENTRANCE HALL The Vestibule • The Stucco Decoration of the Vestibule The Marble Flooring The Staircase ...
... Heads The Portico Busts Mr. Pratt's Spandrel Figures THE MAIN ENTRANCE Mr. Warner's Bronze Doors Mr. Macmonnies's Bronze Door MAIN ENTRANCE HALL The Vestibule • The Stucco Decoration of the Vestibule The Marble Flooring The Staircase ...
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... head of fine arts . The possession of this material would alone give the Library a special national character possible to no other library in the country . HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY . The Library of Congress was founded in the year 1800 ...
... head of fine arts . The possession of this material would alone give the Library a special national character possible to no other library in the country . HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY . The Library of Congress was founded in the year 1800 ...
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... head and director of the institution . During the time that Mr. Spofford occupied his position , not only was the growth of the collection little short of marvellous , but so many changes of system were introduced as almost completely ...
... head and director of the institution . During the time that Mr. Spofford occupied his position , not only was the growth of the collection little short of marvellous , but so many changes of system were introduced as almost completely ...
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... heads illustrating the chief ethnological types of mankind . Along the second - story front runs a portico supported up- on a row of twin columns , each a single piece of granite , with finely carved Co- rinthian capitals . The ...
... heads illustrating the chief ethnological types of mankind . Along the second - story front runs a portico supported up- on a row of twin columns , each a single piece of granite , with finely carved Co- rinthian capitals . The ...
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... heads , the series of busts in the portico of the Entrance Pavilion , and the span- drel figures ornamenting the Entrance Porch . Mr. Hinton Perry's Fountain . - Of Mr. Perry's fountain , it may be said at once that it is the most ...
... heads , the series of busts in the portico of the Entrance Pavilion , and the span- drel figures ornamenting the Entrance Porch . Mr. Hinton Perry's Fountain . - Of Mr. Perry's fountain , it may be said at once that it is the most ...
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第 31 頁 - There was a Boy : ye knew him well, ye cliffs And islands of Winander ! — many a time At evening, when the earliest stars began To move along the edges of the hills...
第 56 頁 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
第 49 頁 - This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him ; The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost ; And — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
第 53 頁 - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
第 32 頁 - Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares, The Poets, who on earth have made us Heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days.
第 98 頁 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none...
第 64 頁 - God, That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
第 51 頁 - Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
第 32 頁 - Line in nature is not found; Unit and universe are round ; In vain produced, all rays return ; Evil will bless, and ice will burn.
第 98 頁 - Let our object be, OUR COUNTRY, OUR WHOLE COUNTRY, AND NOTHING BUT OUR COUNTRY. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of Wisdom, of Peace, and of Liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever...