The column and the arch : essays on architectural history (1899)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · London : Sampson Low, Marston & Co. · leaf 128
zation as theearlier religions were born in, and therefore hadno art which grew in her from its infancy, no mon-uments which brought down with them the rever-ence of her earliest days, like the primitive templesof Greece and Rome—like the Heraeum of Argos,for instance, which, surviving from… … EARLY CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE 91 martyrs, and it was not till the day of her pros-perity that she could adorn these as became herveneration, or even visibly commemorate themwithout exposing them to desecration. When inthe fourth century after Constantines Peace of theChurch and the public conversion…
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