| 1824 - 494 pągines
...was at loss to conjecture how they could be brought thither. Of the ruins of Thebes lie says, — " it appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, \rere all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former... | |
| Giovanni Battista Belzoni - 1820 - 566 pągines
...ruins ; for such is the difference, not only in magnitude, but in form, proportion, and construction, that even the pencil can convey but a faint idea of...entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence.... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 602 pągines
...ruins ; for such is the difference, not only in magnitude, but in form, proportion, and construction, that even the pencil can convey but a faint idea of...entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence.... | |
| 1821 - 602 pągines
...in magnitude, but in torm, proportion, and construction, that even the pencil can convey but a taint idea of the whole. It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence.... | |
| 1821 - 598 pągines
...magnitude, but in, form, proportion, and construction, that even the pencil can convey but a i'aint idea of the whole. It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins" of their various temples as the only proofs of their former... | |
| 1821 - 746 pągines
...was at a loss to conjecture how they could be brought thither. Of the ruins of Thebes he says, — " , were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence."... | |
| Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Mrs. Belzoni (Sarah) - 1822 - 486 pągines
...ruins : for such is the difference, not only in magnitude, but in form, proportion, and construction, that even the pencil can convey but a faint idea of...entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence.... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1823 - 474 pągines
...ruins ; for such is the difference, not only in magnitude, but in form, proportion, and construction, that even the pencil can convey but a faint idea of...entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples, as the only proofs of their former... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1823 - 352 pągines
...such is the difference, not only in magnitude, but in form, proportion, aud construction, that ev«n the pencil can convey but a faint idea of the whole. It appeared to we like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins... | |
| Mrs. Hofland (Barbara) - 1828 - 314 pągines
...ruins; for such is the difference not only in magnitude, but in form, proportion, and construction, that even the pencil can convey but a faint idea of...entering a city of giants, who after a long conflict were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the proof of their existence. The... | |
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