 Taking into view their immemorial antiquity, their astonishing preservation, their grandeur or rather grandiosity, their bold columnar elevation, at once massive and open, their severe simplicity of design, that simplicity in which art generally begins,...  Hunt's Yachting Magazine - Page 2481873Full view - About this book
 | 1821 - 304 pages
...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, 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 - American poetry - 1822 - 236 pages
...rather grandiosity, their bold columnar elevation, at once massive and open, their severe simplicity of design, that simplicity in which art generally...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 - Geography - 1823 - 512 pages
...preservation, their grandeur, their 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 ornnment, it again- returns ; taking, I say, all into one view, 1 do not hesitate to call these the... | |
 | John Britton - Architecture - 1827 - 136 pages
...rather grandiosity, their bold columnar elevation, at once massive and open, their severe simplicity of design, that simplicity in which art generally...these the most impressive monuments I ever beheld on earth."—Forsytlis " Remarks on the Antiquities, <§r. of Italy" Vol. II. p. 92. In the back drawing-room... | |
 | Blenheim Park (England) - 1859 - 270 pages
...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, 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 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... | |
 | 1839 - 246 pages
...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, 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 - Cities and towns, Ancient - 1841 - 372 pages
...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...most impressive monuments I ever beheld on earth." Within those walls, that once encircled a populous and splendid city, now rise a single cottage, two... | |
 | 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."... | |
 | 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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