The sea-storiesJ. Wiley, 1873 - Architecture |
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... reader's faith in modern science by insisting on the singular depression of the surface of Lombardy , which appears for many centuries to have taken place steadily and continually ; the main fact with which we have to do is the gradual ...
... reader's faith in modern science by insisting on the singular depression of the surface of Lombardy , which appears for many centuries to have taken place steadily and continually ; the main fact with which we have to do is the gradual ...
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... place and the people destroyed . § VII . The reader may perhaps have felt some pain in the contrast between this faithful view of the site of the Venetian Throne , and the romantic conception of it which we 10 FIRST PERIOD .
... place and the people destroyed . § VII . The reader may perhaps have felt some pain in the contrast between this faithful view of the site of the Venetian Throne , and the romantic conception of it which we 10 FIRST PERIOD .
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... reader on this general character than on the separate details , however interesting , of the archi- tecture itself . I shall therefore examine these only so far as is necessary to give a clear idea of the means by which the peculiar ...
... reader on this general character than on the separate details , however interesting , of the archi- tecture itself . I shall therefore examine these only so far as is necessary to give a clear idea of the means by which the peculiar ...
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... reader may see how little imitation of the Corinthian there is in them , and how boldly the stems of the leaves are detached from the ground . But there is another circumstance in this orna- ment still more noticeable . The band which ...
... reader may see how little imitation of the Corinthian there is in them , and how boldly the stems of the leaves are detached from the ground . But there is another circumstance in this orna- ment still more noticeable . The band which ...
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... reader should be acquainted with the form of the acanthus leaf itself . I have drawn it , therefore , in the two positions , figs . 3. and 4. in Plate II .; while fig . 5. is the trans- lation of the latter form into marble by the ...
... reader should be acquainted with the form of the acanthus leaf itself . I have drawn it , therefore , in the two positions , figs . 3. and 4. in Plate II .; while fig . 5. is the trans- lation of the latter form into marble by the ...
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