 | William Elliot - 1837 - 350 halaman
...pilasters and columns — the columns thirty feet in height, form a noble advancing portico, on the east, one hundred and sixty feet in extent — the centre of which is crowned with a pediment of eighty feet span : a receding loggia of one hundred feet extent, distinguishes the... | |
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1839 - 368 halaman
...pilasters and columns — the columns thirty feet in height, form a noble advancing portico, on the east, one hundred and sixty feet in extent — the centre of which is crowned with a pediment of eighty feet span: a receding loggia of one hundred feet extent, distinguishes the... | |
 | William Quereau Force - 1850 - 292 halaman
...balustrade of stone, and covered with a lofty dome in the centre, and a flat dome on each wing. The exterior presents a rusticated basement of the height of the...embellished with a group of statuary, the composition of John Quincy Adams, then President of the United States, offered by him after forty designs had been... | |
 | Richard Swainson Fisher - 1852 - 140 halaman
...and columns ; these columns, which are thirty feet in height, form an advancing portico, on the east, one hundred and sixty feet in extent, the centre of which is crowned with a pediment of eighty feet span ; while a receding loggia one hundred feet in extent distinguishes... | |
 | Robert Bruce Warden - 1874 - 870 halaman
...height, and compose a portico on the eastern front of one hundred and sixty feet in extent, the center of which is crowned by a tympanum, embellished with...balustrade of stone, and covered with a lofty dome in the center, and a flat dome on each wing." without symmetry, having, properly speaking, not even streetsi... | |
 | Robert Bruce Warden - 1874 - 888 halaman
...compose a portico on the eastern front of one hundred and sixty feet in extent, the center of which in crowned by a tympanum, embellished with a group of...balustrade of stone, and covered with a lofty dome in the center, and a flat dome on each wing." No doubt, the frequent seeing of this basilica-like building... | |
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The exterior of this edifice presents a rusticated basement of the height of the first story ; the two other stories are comprised in a Corinthian elevation of pilasters and columns. The columns are thirty feet in height, and compose a portico on the... 