... doors of tombs, forming the great Necropolis of the city ; and at the extreme end was a large open space, with a powerful body of light thrown down upon it, and exhibiting in one full view the... Sculpture, and the Plastic Art - Seite 14von Pickering Dodge - 1850 - 353 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1848 - 752 Seiten
...of a beautiful temple, hewn out of the rock, with rows of Corinthian columns and ornaments, standing out fresh and clear as if but yesterday from the hands of the sculptor. Though coming directly from the banks of the Nile, where the preservation of the temples excites the... | |
| 1837 - 536 Seiten
...of a beautiful temple, hewn out of the rock, with rows of Corinthian columns and ornaments, standing out fresh and clear as if but yesterday from the hands of the sculptor. Though coming directly from the banks of the Nile, where the preservation of the temples excites the... | |
| 1837 - 528 Seiten
...of a beautiful temple, hewn out of the rock, with rows of Corinthian columns and ornaments, standing out fresh and clear as if but yesterday from the hands of the sculptor. Neither the Coliseum, the Acropolis nor the Pyramids appeared so imposing as the front of the Khasn6.... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1837 - 572 Seiten
...of a beautiful temple, hewn out of the rock, with rows of Corinthian columns and ornaments, standing out fresh and clear as if but yesterday from the hands of the sculptor. Though coming directly from the banks of the Nile, where the preservation of the temples excites the... | |
| 1837 - 1068 Seiten
...of a beautiful temple, hewn out of the rock, with rows of Corinthian columns and ornaments, standing out fresh and clear as if but yesterday from the hands of the sculptor. Neither the Coliseum, the Acropolis nor the Pyramids appeared so imposing as the front of the Khosn6.... | |
| Léon marquis de Laborde - 1838 - 438 Seiten
...of a beautiful temple, hewn out of the rock, with rows of Corinthian columns and ornaments, standing out fresh and clear as if but yesterday from the hands of the sculptor. Though coming directly from the banks of the Nile, where the preservation of the temples excites the... | |
| 1839 - 444 Seiten
...beautiful temple, hewn out of the rock, with rows of Corinthian columns and ornaments, standing out fair and clear, as if but yesterday from the hands of the sculptor Neither the Coliseum at Rome, grand and interesting as it is, nor the ruins of the Acropolis at Athens,... | |
| Association for the Improvement of Juvenile Books - 1841 - 250 Seiten
...of a beautiful temple hewn out of the rock, with rows of Corinthian columns and ornaments, standing out fresh and clear, as if but yesterday from the hands of the sculptor. Though coming directly from the banks of the Nile, where the preservation of the temples excites the... | |
| 1840 - 508 Seiten
...of a beautiful temple, hewn out of the rock, with rows of Corinthian columns and ornaments, standing out fresh and clear as if but yesterday from the hands of the sculptor." This temple, one of the most remarkable objects relating to antiquity, and which is called the Khasne,... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1841 - 370 Seiten
...This aqueduct is partly excavated and partly built, and is in a very perfect state of preservation. The only inscriptions hitherto discovered at Petra...illegible, and the other in Latin, commemorative of a certain Roman consul who died at Petra when governor of Arabia. The only living being in the immediate... | |
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