And I had an idea that false step must have destroyed the balance of the
structure behind which our musician was concealed.
Suddenly there is presented to his sight a strong castle or gorgeous palace with walls of massy gold, turrets of diamond and gates of jacinth; in short, so marvellous is its
structure that though the materials of which it is built are nothing less than diamonds, carbuncles, rubies, pearls, gold, and emeralds, the workmanship is still more rare.
If it had been found impracticable to have devised models of a more perfect
structure, the enlightened friends to liberty would have been obliged to abandon the cause of that species of government as indefensible.
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The greater part of the
structure was the brain, sending enormous nerves to the eyes, ear, and tactile tentacles.
I propose to treat of Poetry in itself and of its various kinds, noting the essential quality of each; to inquire into the
structure of the plot as requisite to a good poem; into the number and nature of the parts of which a poem is composed; and similarly into whatever else falls within the same inquiry.
In passing it is necessary to refer to the
structure of Chinese verse, which, difficult as it is to grasp and differing in particulars from our European ideas of technique, has considerable interest for the student of verse form and construction.
The tall masts holding aloft the white canvas, spread out like a snare for catching the invisible power of the air, emerge gradually from the water, sail after sail, yard after yard, growing big, till, under the towering
structure of her machinery, you perceive the insignificant, tiny speck of her hull.
Some of these--guesses, let us call them--seem to show that there was some sort of
structure there when the Romans came, therefore it must have been a place of importance in Druid times--if indeed that was the beginning.
The wicket from which the pair had lately emerged was in the wall of this
structure.
It is also necessary that the magistrates, upon entering into their offices, should make magnificent sacrifices and erect some public
structure, that the people partaking of the entertainment, and seeing the city ornamented with votive gifts in their temples and public
structures, may see with pleasure the stability of the government: add to this also, that the nobles will have their generosity recorded: but now this is not the conduct which those who are at present at the head of an oligarchy pursue, but the contrary; for they are not more desirous of honour than of gain; for which reason such oligarchies may more properly be called little democracies.
At the same time he felt that above his face, above the very middle of it, some strange airy
structure was being erected out of slender needles or splinters, to the sound of this whispered music.
