Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 318
e Greekcities of Sicily, Agrigentum, Selinus, Segeste, Syracuse. Who wouldnot say, on beholding thèse vénérable ruins, Happy the lives ofthose who so understood and so exquisitely enjoyed the beautifulalliance of art and nature 1 AVith the Roman it was otherwise. He readily sacrificed natureto his… … DANGEES OF HASTE. 259 Fig. 45, a birds-eye view of a Roman temple of the Impérial epoch,with its porticos, its enclosing wall or cloister, its approaches, and itslarge and sumptuous arclntectm-e.* In modem times we cheapentlie sites of om* monuments, or, if we undertake to isolate tliem,…
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