 | 1828 - 602 pages
...St. Isaac, the Palladian structure of the Post-office, the barracks and riding-house of the Gardes & cheval, the great and handsome portico of the Opera,...point of our picture, and forming its distant horizon. prise bad riveted us for nearly an hour to the contemplation of a living panorama, to see which alone,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Bibliography - 1828 - 590 pages
...St. Isaac, the Palladian structure of the Post-office, the barracks and riding-house of the Gardes a cheval, the great and handsome portico of the Opera,...extreme point of our picture, and forming its distant horizon.'—vol. i. pp. 444—447. The author thinks a journey of one thousand seven hundred miles,... | |
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Gardes d cheval, the great and handsome portico of the Opera, with the picturesque church of St. Nicholas not far distant from it, successively presented themselves as objects for our admiration. The scene, too, in this direction, is pleasingly varied... 