 | 1824 - 494 σελίδες
...was at loss to conjecture how they could be brought thither. Of the ruins of Thebes lie says, — " it appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, \rere all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of... | |
 | Giovanni Battista Belzoni - 1820 - 566 σελίδες
...from the most magnificent specimens of our present architecture, would give a very incorrect picture of these ruins ; for such is the difference, not only...to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 602 σελίδες
...from the most magnificent specimens of our present architecture, would give a very incorrect picture of these ruins ; for such is the difference, not only...to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of... | |
 | 1821 - 598 σελίδες
...from the most magnificent specimens of our present architecture, would give a very incorrect picture of these ruins ; for such is the difference, not only...construction, that even the pencil can convey but a i'aint idea of the whole. It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict,... | |
 | 1821 - 746 σελίδες
...was at a loss to conjecture how they could be brought thither. Of the ruins of Thebes he says, — " it appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of... | |
 | 1821 - 602 σελίδες
...the most magnificent specimens of our present architecture, would give a very incorrect picture oi these ruins ; for such is the difference, not only in magnitude, but in torm, proportion, and construction, that even the pencil can convey but a taint idea of the whole.... | |
 | Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Mrs. Belzoni (Sarah) - 1822 - 486 σελίδες
...from the most magnificent specimens of our present architecture, would give a very incorrect picture of these ruins : for such is the difference, not only...to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 474 σελίδες
...from the most magnificent specimens of our present architecture, would give a very incorrect picture of these ruins ; for such is the difference, not only...to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples, as the only proofs of... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 352 σελίδες
...from the most magnificent specimens of our present architecture, would give • very incorrect picture of these ruins ; for such is the difference, not only in magnitude, but in form, proportion, aud construction, that ev«n the pencil can convey but a faint idea of the whole. It appeared to we... | |
 | Mrs. Hofland (Barbara) - 1828 - 314 σελίδες
...from the most magnificent specimen of our present architecture, would give a very incorrect picture of these ruins; for such is the difference not only...to me like entering a city of giants, who after a long conflict were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the proof of their... | |
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It appeared to me like entering a city of giants who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence. 
