The Quarterly Review, Volume 69William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1841 |
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Page 128
... Grecian temples , even as late as the Parthenon , and he will find , as he might naturally expect among a people whose art , and wisdom , and theology came originally from Egypt , vestiges of the Egyptian type still distinguishable in ...
... Grecian temples , even as late as the Parthenon , and he will find , as he might naturally expect among a people whose art , and wisdom , and theology came originally from Egypt , vestiges of the Egyptian type still distinguishable in ...
Page 135
... Grecian . It occurs in gables , in spires set upon towers , in pinnacles , in the forms of doors and windows , in the canopies of niches , and is repeated in every part - differing from the form of the Grecian pediment , when placed ...
... Grecian . It occurs in gables , in spires set upon towers , in pinnacles , in the forms of doors and windows , in the canopies of niches , and is repeated in every part - differing from the form of the Grecian pediment , when placed ...
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... Grecian pillar with a base is a corruption , and a Gothic pillar without one is an absurdity ; because in pure Grecian the eye was to be carried downward , and in Gothic upward , and a base necessarily suggests this ascending move- ment ...
... Grecian pillar with a base is a corruption , and a Gothic pillar without one is an absurdity ; because in pure Grecian the eye was to be carried downward , and in Gothic upward , and a base necessarily suggests this ascending move- ment ...
Contents
Collection des Mémoires relatifs à lHistoire de France | 3 |
Objections to and Remarks upon Mr Sergeant Tal | 7 |
Incidents of Travel in Central America Chiapas | 52 |
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