 Forsyth) the immemorial antiquity of these ruins, their astonishing preservation, their 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,...  The Union of Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting, Exemplified by a Series ... - Pagina 46de John Britton - 1827 - 60 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | 1821 - 304 pagini
...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... | |
 | Henry Pickering - 1822 - 236 pagini
...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... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1823 - 512 pagini
...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... | |
 | 1859 - 270 pagini
...(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... | |
 | 1837 - 244 pagini
...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... | |
 | 1839 - 246 pagini
...(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... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1841 - 370 pagini
...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."... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1841 - 370 pagini
...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... | |
 | 1847 - 198 pagini
...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... | |
 | 1851 - 478 pagini
...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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