 | 1821 - 304 pàgines
...yet remaining, together with seven of the upper. The lateral walls of the cella have almost entirely disappeared. The stone used in this and the other...once massive and open, their severe simplicity of design; that simplicity in which art generally begins, and to which, after a thousand revolutions of... | |
 | Henry Pickering - 1822 - 236 pàgines
...their immemorial antiquity, their astonishing no 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, and to which, after a thousand revolutions of... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1823 - 512 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1859 - 270 pàgines
...years ago ; yet the Theatre is preserved in a state of perfection beyond most other ancient edifices. " Taking into view (says Forsyth) the immemorial antiquity...once massive and open, their severe simplicity of design — that simplicity in which art generally begins, and to which, after a thousand revolutions... | |
 | John Britton - 1827 - 136 pàgines
...the three temples at Paestum, 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, and to which, after a thousand revolutions of... | |
 | 1828 - 244 pàgines
...entablature is nearly perfect all around. The columns are 6 feet 10 inches in diameter, and 28 feet 1 1 in height, including the capital ; those of the interior...once massive and open, their severe simplicity of design; that simplicity in •which art generally begins, and to which, after a thousand revolutions... | |
 | 1837 - 244 pàgines
...years ago; yet the Theatre is preserved in a state of perfection beyond most other ancient edifices. " Taking into view (says Forsyth) the immemorial antiquity...ornaments, it again returns—taking all, I say, into one view, I do not hesitate to call these the most impressive monuments that I ever beheld on earth."*... | |
 | 1839 - 246 pàgines
...years ago; yet the Theatre is preserved in a state of perfection beyond most other ancient edifices. " Taking into view (says Forsyth) the immemorial antiquity...once massive and open, their severe simplicity of design — that simplicity in which art generally begins, and to which, after a thousand revolutions... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1841 - 372 pàgines
...these wonderful objects into view," says Mr. Forsyth, " their immemorial antiquity, their astonishing grandeur, their bold columnar elevation, at once massive and open, their severe simplicity of design — that simplicity in which art gradually begins, and to which, after a. thousand revolutions... | |
 | 1851 - 478 pàgines
...their bold columnar elevation, at once majestic and open, their severe simplicity of design — that simplicity in which art generally begins, and to which, after a thousand revolutions of ornament, it again returns — I do not hesitate to call these the most impressive monuments I ever... | |
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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,... 
