There it stands in glorious solidity until the day of judgment. Nothing short of a universal convulsion can shake it. Over the arch are the letters "Augusta Perugia," looking at a distance like some cabalistic charm. Diary of an Idle Woman in Italy - Page 309by Frances Minto Elliot - 1871Full view - About this book
| william harrison ainsworth - 1857 - 516 pages
...almost fabulous antiquity, frowning down on the pigmy erections of later ages. There it stands in its glorious solidity until the day of judgment; nothing...a distance like some cabalistic charm; on the left is an open gallery, and two mnssive towers surmount the centre. There is actually an awful look ubout... | |
| Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot ("Mrs. Gilbert Elliot, ") - Italy - 1872 - 754 pages
...Augusta, one of the grandest monuments in the world. It is of immense size, and formed of uncemented stones actually gigantic; the walls of Fiesole are...actually looks quite awful, like something seen in a dream. Hard by it is the College of the Belle Arti, full of the most curious Etruscan relics, in wonderfully... | |
| Henry Neville Maugham - Architecture - 1903 - 484 pages
...portal of unknown antiquity, frowning down on the pigmy erections of later ages. There it stands in a glorious solidity until the day of judgment. Nothing...can shake it. Over the arch are the letters "Augusta Perusia," looking at a distance like some cabalistic charm. On the left are an open gallery and two... | |
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