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" 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 309
by Frances Minto Elliot - 1871
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 109

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William 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...distance like some cabalistic charm ; on the left is an open gallery, and two massive towers surmount the centre. There is actually an awful look about...
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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...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 109

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 520 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...letters " Augusta Perugia," looking at a distance like snme cabalistic charm ; on the left is an open gallery, and two massive towers surmount the centre....
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Diary of an Idle Woman in Italy

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...
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The Book of Italian Travel (1580-1900)

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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