Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-12-17
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THE STATE HOJ Sc
Anon out of Che earth d fabric huge
Rose, IKE au cNha'lii1u. with thc sound
OF dulrct symphonies and Voices sweet;
Built lte temple. when pilasfcrs round
Wore -rf. aul Dnrc pillars 0scr'aid
Wih golden arrhifntc, nor dld they want
C1rtico ur frczo win hl.scys sculpture craven
-ihHon's Paradise Laf.
During a day at Montpelier not long since,
] spent am hour very pleasantly in walking
about and admitting the now State House,
which has now arrived 40 such a state of COM
plction externally as TO indicate pretty clearly
the appearance it will ultimately have. Tho
difference in the exterior form of the now
building from the old. is most Strikingly man
fest in the greater elevation of the new dome I:
and while gazing al this superb structure.
which was at the time receiving its copper
covering ! was reminded of Addison's letter
ON forms in architecture. No. ilJ of the
Spectator. in which he remarks that, "among
all the figures of this art. there are none that
have a greater air than the concavc and the
convex and we find in all the ancient and
modern architecture. as well in the remote
parts of China, as in countries nearer home,
that round pillars and vaulted roofs make
a great part Of those buildings which are de-
signed for pomp and magnifcence The rea-
son take 20 be. he saws, "because in these
figures we generally see more of the body
than in those other kinds. There are, in
decd figures of bodies where the eye may
take in two-thirds OF the surface but as IN
such bodies the sight must split upon several
angles 1t docs not take IN ono uniform idea
but several ideas of the same kind Look
upon the outside of a dome, your eye half sur
rounds IL look upon the inside. and at one
glance you have all the prospect of 1t tho
entire coucayty falls INTO your eye at one, Tho
sight being as the center that collects an'
gathers into 1t the lines OF the whole clrcum
ference; in square pillar the sight oitci
takes in but a fourth part OF the surface an'
in square concave must move up ana doWi
to the different sides before II Is master o
all the inward surface FOR inns reason th
fancy is infinitely more struck with the Vev
Of the open air and skies that passed 'hrongl
an arch, than what comes through a square
or any other figure lhe figure OF the ram
bow does not contribute less to its magnlh
cence than the colors to ITS beauty as 1t
very practically by the son OF SiTach Loo
upon the rainbow ana praise INN that mao
it; very beautiful it is IN ITS brightness
encompasses the heavens wiz, " s'vIiouS CIR
Gle and the handS oil the Most ilSh nav
'' ::
There are many o,ner points W ",''
the structure Oh "n'en ! ni"A Spun Snon
resume my letters on ,he orNS vi N,''
that were Suspenueu i"st suu'"er /" B'e P'"'
TO another suolect' nu' "lSn ~" W "'
uce remark ol the eu'Ior Oh 'ho f''' ,,S
who was at Montpelier on lhe same ual Una
l was, and Tor whose views oil matters an
things at the Capital iookeu WIN much II !,
tcrest. lie writes IN his uSualiy aSreeao'
style. but looked upon the DARK sac WIN re, re.
poet to the new state House ne shys-
found the new Siate house iuttne' rom cu'
pletion than we had looked 'of' - Accoru.n o,r ~
TO thG report ol ,uPeo,''euuo',t ooo I"''s, s;1
cost thus far rs ~ l.OUU more inau nc adlu /
t. r-..- .....al of H., ~ t,o so.ssior, bo ,,-1
MS ldluouS sVtN'h hb NuN VNti" oNf'''"' 'N " -
t,o ,,h,lo ,vorl would viz
'oNHH1ht -ih' """iN "N'N
Syf 00O and he now thinks tho whole eN
go. ooo IL a.
pcnsc Will not exceed > Nlo0,uuu' be oN"