 | 1824 - 494 pages
...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 their former... | |
 | Giovanni Battista Belzoni - 1820 - 566 pages
...Thebes, even from the accounts of the most skilful and accurate travellers. It is absolutely impossible to imagine the scene displayed, without seeing it....would give a very incorrect picture of these ruins ; for such is the difference, not only in magnitude, but in form, proportion, and construction, that... | |
 | 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 pages
...The_bes, even from the accounts of the most skilful and accurate travellers. It is absolutely impossible to imagine the scene displayed, without seeing it....would give a very incorrect picture of these ruins ; for such is the difference, not only in magnitude, but in form, proportion, and construction, that... | |
 | 1821 - 598 pages
...Thebes, even from the accounts of the most skilful and accurate travellers. It is absolutely impossible to imagine the scene displayed, without seeing it....would give a very incorrect picture of these ruins ; for such is the difference, not only in magnitude, but in, form, proportion, and construction, that... | |
 | 1821 - 602 pages
...Thebes, even from the accounts of the most skilful and accurate travellers. It is absolutely impossible to imagine the scene displayed, without seeing it....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,... | |
 | 1821 - 746 pages
...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,...after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence." Nothing, we think,... | |
 | Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Mrs. Belzoni (Sarah) - 1822 - 486 pages
...Thebes, even from the accounts of the most skilful and accurate travellers. It is absolutely impossible to imagine the scene displayed, without seeing it....would give a very incorrect picture of these ruins : for such is the difference, not only in magnitude, but in form, proportion, and construction, that... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 474 pages
...even from the accounts of the most skilful and accurate travellers. — It is absolutely impossible to imagine the scene displayed, without seeing it....would give a very incorrect picture of these ruins ; for such is the difference, not only in magnitude, but in form, proportion, and construction, that... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 352 pages
...Thebes, even from the accounts of the west skilful and accurate tnivcllers.—It is absolutely impossible to imagine the scene displayed, without seeing it....specimens of our present architecture, would give • very incorrect picture of these ruins ; for such is the difference, not only in magnitude, but... | |
 | Mrs. Hofland (Barbara) - 1828 - 314 pages
...of Belzoni's impressions on actually entering those ruins of Thebes which Denon saw at a distance. " The most sublime ideas that can be formed from the most magnificent specimen of our present architecture, would give a very incorrect picture of these ruins; for such... | |
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The most sublime ideas that can be, formed 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 in magnitude, but in form, proportion, and construction,... 
