“Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the key-stone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done, the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) p. 295.
“From all ages architects have made use of arches in public buildings, as well for strength as beauty. Yet what was the true geometrical figure of an arch was not known before my demonstrations came out.”
“The true Mathematical and Mechanical Form of all manner of es for building with the true butment necessary to each of them, a Problem which no Architectonick Writer hath ever yet attempted, much less perform'd. ...Ut pendet continaum flexile, sic stabit contiguum rigidum, which is the Linea Catenaria.”
— Tr: As hangs the flexible line, so but inverted will stand the rigid arch.
“History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription moulders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?”
— Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Westminster Abbey.
“The Romans were the first builders in Europe, perhaps the first in the world, fully to appreciate the advantages of the arch, the vault and the dome.”
— D.S. Robertson, Greek and Roman Architecture (1943) 2nd edn., p.231.
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Arch is a masculine given name and a surname, usually a shortened form of Archibald or Archer.
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Arch is a masculine given name and a surname, usually a shortened form of Archibald or Archer.
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People with the given name
Arch Bevis (born 1955), Australian politician
Arch Bobbitt (1895–1978), American judge
Arch Corbett (1883–1920), Australian rules footballer
Arch Crippin (1916–2008), Australian rugby league footballer
Arch Dale (1882–1962), Scottish editorial cartoonist who sometimes signed his work as "Arch"
Arch Deal (1931–2020), American newscaster
Arch Freeman (c. 1890–1918), American aviator
J. Arch Getty (1950–2025), American historian
Arch Hall Sr. (1908–1978), American actor, film director, and screenwriter
Arch Hall Jr. (born 1943), American actor, musician, aviator, and writer
Arch Higgins, American ballet dancer
Arch Jelley (born 1922), New Zealand athletics coach
Arch Johnson (1922–1997), American actor
Arch Knott (1916–1998), Australian rules footballer
Arch MacDonald (1911–1985), American broadcast journalist and television pioneer
Arch L. Madsen (1913–1997), American broadcast executive
Arch Manning, American football quarterback
Arch Martin (1931–2009), American jazz trombonist
Arch McDonald (1901–1960), American sports announcer
Arch McDonald (footballer) (1882–1932), Australian rules footballer
Arch W. McFarlane (1885–1960), American businessman and politician
Arch McKirdy (1924–2013), Australian radio presenter and broadcasting executive
Arch Merrill (1894–1974), American journalist and author
Arch A. Moore Jr. (1923–2015), American lawyer, politician and convicted felon
Arch Muirhead (1876–1958), Australian rules footballer
Arch Nicholson (1941–1990), Australian film director
Arch Oboler (1909–1987), American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer and director
Arch Pafford, Canadian politician
Arch Presby (1907–2007), Canadian-American radio and television announcer
Arch Reilly (1891–1963), American baseball player
Arch Wilkinson Shaw (1876–1962), American publisher and business theorist
Arch B. Swank Jr. (1913–1999), American architect
Arch Thompson, Australian rugby league footballer
Arch Ward (1896–1955), sports editor for the Chicago Tribune newspaper
Arch West (1914–2011), American marketing executive
Arch Colson Whitehead (born 1960), American novelist
Arch Whitehouse (1895–1979), British aviator and author
Arch Whiting (1936–2007), American actor
Arch Wilder (1917–2002), Canadian ice hockey player
Arch G. Woodside (born 1943), American marketing consultant and author
People with the surname
Hannes Arch (1967–2016), Austrian air racer and 2008 world champion
John Arch (John Maurice Archambault, born 1959), American singer
John Arch (politician) (born 1964), American politician
Joseph Arch (1826–1919), English politician
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