id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt mdp.39015010944752 Van Brunt, Henry, Greek lines and other architectural essays by Henry Van Brunt 1893 .txt text/plain 43036 1733 57 yearns to create, to give in some form expression and life to those evasive ideals of loveliness which are planted within our consciousness by the aspects of nature. But abstract lines as we find them in Architecture and in the ceramic arts are the independent developments of this creative power, material beauties of nature a work of art. alone man can create like a god, to avail himself at once of the Greek orders, not as a sensitive and delicate means of fine aesthetic expression, but as a mechanical language of contrasts of form to be used according to the developed to fit an old civilization; the applicability of these primary principles to the refinement of the architectural expressions of a Through the agency of the Greek school, perhaps more new and directly symbolic architectural expressions have been uttered within studied; wheresoever and howsoever humanity has expressed itself in forms of art, these ./cache/mdp.39015010944752.pdf ./txt/mdp.39015010944752.txt