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... height of which is about six times its breadth . Consequently , they made the diameter of a column , at its foot , equal to one - sixth of its whole length ; and the system , or order , distinguished by these proportions , they are said ...
... height of which is about six times its breadth . Consequently , they made the diameter of a column , at its foot , equal to one - sixth of its whole length ; and the system , or order , distinguished by these proportions , they are said ...
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... height on each side of the middle one , so that they are of three different degrees of elevation . The ceil- ings , of white marble , were divided into com- partments adorned with the richest sculpture . But this vestibule , once so ...
... height on each side of the middle one , so that they are of three different degrees of elevation . The ceil- ings , of white marble , were divided into com- partments adorned with the richest sculpture . But this vestibule , once so ...
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... ornament , dominating the whole of Athens from the rocky height of the Acropolis . A man of poetical genius and fine imagination , Alphonse de Lamartine , has painted the scene , with a powerful hand , in his Voyages en Orient.
... ornament , dominating the whole of Athens from the rocky height of the Acropolis . A man of poetical genius and fine imagination , Alphonse de Lamartine , has painted the scene , with a powerful hand , in his Voyages en Orient.
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... height . At each end of the temple stood a portico of six columns , projecting about seven feet from the main build- ing . The total dimensions of the edifice were : 228.7 feet in length , by 100.8 feet in breadth , with a height of 47 ...
... height . At each end of the temple stood a portico of six columns , projecting about seven feet from the main build- ing . The total dimensions of the edifice were : 228.7 feet in length , by 100.8 feet in breadth , with a height of 47 ...
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... peripteral " and " hexastyle , " and has thirteen columns on each side . Its extreme length is 104 feet , and its width 45 feet . The whole height of the side walls is 74 feet , and the breadth between the exteriors of these walls 25 feet .
... peripteral " and " hexastyle , " and has thirteen columns on each side . Its extreme length is 104 feet , and its width 45 feet . The whole height of the side walls is 74 feet , and the breadth between the exteriors of these walls 25 feet .
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Triumphs of Ancient Architecture: Greece and Rome (1866) William Henry Davenport Adams No preview available - 2009 |
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Acropolis admiration adorned Agrigentum Amphitheatre ancient antiquity arch ARCH OF TITUS architect architecture architrave arena ashes Athenian Athens Attic bas-reliefs base Basilica beauty breadth building built Byron Cæsar called capitals Capitoline Hill cella century Choragic Monument Church Coliseum coloured Corinthian Corinthian order decoration destroyed diameter divine Domitian Doric earth edifice elevated Emperor entablature Erechtheum erected eruption façade famous feet high fluted Forum frieze front Gate genius Girgenti glorious glory grace Greece Greek height Herculaneum hexastyle hills honour inscription Ionic Order Jupiter light magnificent memorial Minerva noble numerous ornament Pæstum Pantheon Parthenon pedestal pediment peripteral peristyle Phidias placed Pompeii portico Propylæa rock Roman Rome roof ruins sacred scene sculptures Segeste Selinunte Septimius Severus Sicily side six columns stands statue stone stood Street style summit tecture Temple of Segeste Temple of Theseus Tibur Titus tomb Trajan Trajan's Column travertine ture vestibule Vesuvius Victory walls wealth white marble
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Page 14 - tis haunted, holy ground, No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould, But one vast realm of wonder spreads around, And all the Muse's tales seem truly told, Till the sense aches with gazing to behold The scenes our earliest dreams have dwelt upon: Each hill and dale, each deepening glen and wold Defies the power which crush'd thy temples gone: Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
Page 54 - Midst the chief relics of almighty Rome; The trees which grew along the broken arches Waved dark in the blue midnight, and the stars Shone through the rents of ruin...
Page 56 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!
Page 49 - The time is come. See how he points his eager hand this way! See how his eyes gloat on thy grief, like a kite's upon the prey ! With all his wit, he little deems, that, spurned, betrayed, bereft, Thy father hath in his despair one fearful refuge left. He little deems that in this hand I clutch what still can save Thy gentle youth from taunts and blows, the portion of the slave ; Yea, and from nameless evil, that passeth taunt and blow— Foul outrage which thou know'st not, which thou shalt never...
Page 58 - Hesperides, and was afterwards broken into the rocks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous pipes conveyed an inexhaustible supply of water, and what had just before appeared a level plain might be suddenly converted into a wide lake, covered with armed vessels, and replenished with the monsters of the deep.
Page 54 - Gladiator's bloody Circus stands, A noble wreck in ruinous perfection ! While Caesar's chambers, and the Augustan halls, Grovel on earth in indistinct decay.
Page 115 - Nothing then was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the cries of men ; some calling for their children, others for their parents, others for their husbands, and only distinguishing each other by their voices ; one lamenting his own fate, another that of his family ; some wishing to die from the very fear of dying ; some lifting their hands to the gods ; but, the greater part imagining that the last and eternal night was come, which was to destroy the gods and the world...
Page 49 - Blest and thrice blest the Roman Who sees Rome's brightest day, Who sees that long victorious pomp Wind down the Sacred Way, And through the bellowing Forum, And round the Suppliant's Grove, Up to the everlasting gates Of Capitolian Jove.
Page 69 - And when all beheld Him, where he lay, how changed from yesterday, Him in that hour cut off, and at his head His last great work ; when, entering in, they looked...
Page 73 - Every day the astonished Senate received the intelligence of new names and new nations that acknowledged his sway.