"Pugin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... positis (Darmstadt, 1885). For Christian altars, reference is best made to the articles on the subject in the dictionaries of Christian and liturgical antiquities of Migne, Martigny, Smith and Cheetham, and Pugin, where practically all the available information is collected. See also Ciampinus, Vetera Monumenta (Rome, 1747), where numerous illustrations of altars are to be found; Martune, De antiquis Ecclesiae ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... go with me into a door south of the transept, over which, in oddly-shaped letters, are the words "MEDIAEVAL COURT." The very name reminds one of Popery, Puseyism, and Pugin. This mediaeval court absolutely dazzles one's eyes with its splendors. Auriferous draperies line the walls; from the ceiling hang gold and silver lamps—such lamps as are to be seen in Romish chapels before the statues of the Virgin; huge candlesticks, in which are placed enormous candles; Gothic ...
— Young Americans Abroad - Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, - Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland • Various
... care a straw for them" said Tom, "there was no right or wrong in the matter, and I had as good a right to my opinion as Pugin—or whatever his name ...
— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes
... Gothic art in Normandy, its beautiful proportions and grace of line (especially when seen from the north side) have been the admiration of ages of architects and the occasion of many a special pilgrimage in our own day. Pugin has sketched its western facade and its 'lancet windows;' and Prout has given us drawings of the spire, 'percee au jour'—perforated with such mathematical accuracy that, as we approach the tower, there is always one, or more, opening in view—as one star disappears, another shines out, as ...
— Normandy Picturesque • Henry Blackburn |
