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... enormous mound of earth , having five termini on the summit , with inscriptions . Herodotus , who says this monument was second to none but those of the Egyptians and Babylonians , states that the circum- ference of the mound ( of which ...
... enormous mound of earth , having five termini on the summit , with inscriptions . Herodotus , who says this monument was second to none but those of the Egyptians and Babylonians , states that the circum- ference of the mound ( of which ...
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... enormous example of an earthen memorial , called Silbury - hill , in Wiltshire , close to what used to be the Bath road , and which is probably connected in some way with the temples at Avebury and Stonehenge . It has been ascribed by ...
... enormous example of an earthen memorial , called Silbury - hill , in Wiltshire , close to what used to be the Bath road , and which is probably connected in some way with the temples at Avebury and Stonehenge . It has been ascribed by ...
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... marvellous people , -those giants in architecture , - that they raised obelisks of enormous size , and ren- dered them , by great labour and skill , objects of DRUIDICAL WORKS . 13 beauty as well as eloquent records. 12 HISTORY IN RUINS .
... marvellous people , -those giants in architecture , - that they raised obelisks of enormous size , and ren- dered them , by great labour and skill , objects of DRUIDICAL WORKS . 13 beauty as well as eloquent records. 12 HISTORY IN RUINS .
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... enormous as to be scarcely credible . Concerning the magnificence of Babylon , " the glory of king- doms , the ... enormous walls , which were ornamented with animals in relief , richly painted in their natural colours on the bricks ...
... enormous as to be scarcely credible . Concerning the magnificence of Babylon , " the glory of king- doms , the ... enormous walls , which were ornamented with animals in relief , richly painted in their natural colours on the bricks ...
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... enormous winged animals which originally formed the doorways in the palaces or temples . I should have pointed out to you , in proof of my observation that Greece had some of her art from Assyria , the prototype of what is known as the ...
... enormous winged animals which originally formed the doorways in the palaces or temples . I should have pointed out to you , in proof of my observation that Greece had some of her art from Assyria , the prototype of what is known as the ...
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Page 189 - You show us Rome was glorious, not profuse, And pompous buildings once were things of use; Yet shall, my lord, your just, your noble rules, Fill half the land with imitating fools ; Who random drawings from your sheets shall take; And of one beauty many blunders make...
Page 35 - Time sadly overcometh all things, and is now dominant, and sitteth upon a sphinx, and looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes, while his sister Oblivion reclineth semisomnous on a pyramid, gloriously triumphing, making puzzles of Titanian erections, and turning old glories into dreams. History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller as he paceth amazedly through those deserts asketh of her, who builded them ? and she mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not.
Page 71 - And yet how lovely in thine age of woe, Land of lost gods and godlike men, art thou!
Page 103 - But when the rising moon begins to climb Its topmost arch, and gently pauses there ; When the stars twinkle through the loops of time, And the low night-breeze waves along the air The...
Page 21 - Behold yon huge And unhewn sphere of living adamant, Which, poised by magic, rests its central weight On yonder pointed rock : firm as it seems, Such is its strange and virtuous property, It moves obsequious to the gentlest touch Of him whose breast is pure ; but to a traitor, Though e'en a giant's prowess nerved his arm, It stands as fixed as Snowdon.
Page 156 - Streaming from off the sun like seraph's wings, Now yawns all desolate: now loud, now fainter, The gale sweeps through its fretwork, and oft sings The owl his anthem, where the silenced quire Lie with their hallelujahs quench'd like fire.
Page 47 - Memphis, was buried one hundred and thirty feet below the mound surface. Who knows but that the greater part of old Memphis, and of other glorious cities, lies almost unharmed under the sand? Who can say what armies of sphinxes, what sentinels of colossi, might start up on the banks of the river, or come forth from the hill sides of the interior, when the cloud of sand had been wafted away?
Page 30 - Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat, 12 And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit...
Page 36 - Dupin says, that if it were required to know how long a time they would take to cut the stones and move them from the quarries to the pyramid, a very few days would...
Page 103 - It will not bear the brightness of the day, Which streams too much on all years, man, have reft away.