The Olivia Letters

The Olivia Letters - Being Some History of Washington City for Forty Years as Told by the Letters of a Newspaper Correspondent

The time has come when our wealthy citizens need not to go abroad to see the finest specimen of architecture of the kind in the world. Visitors to the shrine of St. Paul and St. Peter return westward and award the palm of superiority to the dome of the nations Capitol. Towering 300 feet from the base to the summit, its superb proportions unsurpassed in the world of art, at once attract the attention of all beholders, and, as the king of the landscape, it reigns supreme. But to see it in all its regal beauty it should be aflame of a night, with its innumerable gas jets; then it becomes in every sense of the word, a mountain of light, and shares the honors of the evening with the Pleiades, Orion, and the Milky Way. The Pharaoh who built the mighty pyramid of Egypt simply constructed his own monument, and in the same way the architect of the dome, a citizen of good old Philadelphia, has woven his name into a fragment of the web of Time. Thomas U. Walterdo you know him?the man who held this mighty tower in his brain, in all its perfection, long, long before it ever saw the light of day. When you and I, dear reader, are not so much as a pinch of dustwhen the names of Washington and Lincoln are as remote as the sages who lived before Christthe great architects of the world will live, whether they sprung from the tawny mud of the Nile, the soil of classic Greece, or the rich vegetable mould of the western hemisphere. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 58604
Author: Briggs, Emily Edson
Release Date: Jan 3, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English