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The Union of Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting, Exemplified by a Series ... - Page 46
by John Britton - 1827 - 60 pages
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The Oxford university and city guide. To which is added, a guide to Blenheim ...

1821 - 304 pages
...Forsyth,) the immemorial antiquity of these ruins, their astonishing preservation, their grandeur, their bold columnar elevation, at once massive and...begins, and to which, after a thousand revolutions of ornaments, it again returns ; taking all, I say, into one view, I do not hesitate to call these the...
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The Ruins of Pæstum: And Other Compositions in Verse ...

Henry Pickering - American poetry - 1822 - 236 pages
...long obscurity of its mighty ruins. Taking into view their immemorial antiquity, their astonishing no preservation, their grandeur, or rather grandiosity,...hesitate to call these the most impressive monuments that I ever beheld !" The columns of three temples with their broken entablatures and pediments, and...
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Sketches of the Earth and Its Inhabitants: With One Hundred Engravings, Volume 2

Joseph Emerson Worcester - Geography - 1823 - 512 pages
...Taking into view their immemorial antiquity, their astonishing preservation, their grandeur, their columnar elevation, at once massive and open, their...begins, and to which, after a thousand revolutions .of ornnment, it again- returns ; taking, I say, all into one view, 1 do not hesitate to call these the...
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The Oxford University and City Guide: On a New Plan Containing a Full ...

Blenheim Park (England) - 1859 - 270 pages
...(says Forsyth) the immemorial antiquity of these ruins, their astonishing preservation, their grandeur, their bold columnar elevation, at once massive and...begins, and to which, after a thousand revolutions of ornaments, it again returns — taking all, I say, into one view, I do not hesitate to call these the...
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The Oxford university and city guide. To which is added, a guide to Blenheim ...

1837 - 244 pages
...grandeur, their bold columnar elevation, at once massive and open, their severe simplicity of design—that simplicity in which art generally begins, and to which, after a thousand revolutions of ornaments, it again returns—taking all, I say, into one view, I do not hesitate to call these the...
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The Oxford University and City Guide, on a New Plan: Containing a Full ...

1839 - 246 pages
...(says Forsyth) the immemorial antiquity of these ruins, their astonishing preservation, their grandeur, their bold columnar elevation, at once massive and...begins, and to which, after a thousand revolutions of ornaments, it again returns — taking all, I say, into one view, I do not hesitate to call these the...
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Ruins of Ancient Cities: With General and Particular Accounts of ..., Volume 2

Charles Bucke - Cities and towns, Ancient - 1841 - 370 pages
...once massive and open, their severe simplicity of design — that simplicity in which art gradually begins, and to which, after a thousand revolutions of ornament, it again returns — taking all into one view, I do not hesitate to call these the most impressive monuments I ever beheld on earth."...
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Ruins of Ancient Cities: With General and Particular Accounts of ..., Volume 2

Charles Bucke - Cities and towns, Ancient - 1841 - 370 pages
...once massive and open, their severe simplicity of design — that simplicity in which art gradually begins, and to which, after a thousand revolutions of ornament, it again returns — talcing all into one view, I do not hesitate to call these the most impressive monuments I ever...
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The stranger's guide through the university and city of Oxford. To which is ...

1847 - 198 pages
...grandeur, their bold columnar elevation, at once massive and open, their severe simplicity of design—that simplicity in which art generally begins, and to which, after a thousand revolutions of ornaments, it again returns—taking all, I say, into one viej», I do not hesitate to call these the...
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Belgium, the Rhine, Italy, Greece, and the Shores and Islands of ..., Volume 2

Belgium - 1851 - 478 pages
...preservation, their grandeur, or rather grandiosity, their bold columnar elevation, at once majestic and open, their severe simplicity of design — that...thousand revolutions of ornament, it again returns — I do not hesitate to call these the most impressive monuments I ever beheld on earth."f The modern...
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