Horton, Caroline W · New York, Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge, The Riverside press · leaf 78
and the general effect weighty and ruderather than grand. The magnificent ruins of P^estum, standing, asthey do, solitary and alone with no human habita-tion in view, seem as if they had risen from theground by supernatural power. Surrounded atpresent by a wilderness, they have seen the… … ITHENEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRAR, ASTOR, LENOX ANDTILDEN FOUNDATIONS. Grecian Architecture. 65 ment of an age that was, doubtless, more ancient tothat of Pericles than are the early colonial days ofVirginia to our own time. The central temple,known as the temple of Poseidon or Neptune, isthe largest, and…
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