Half-hour lectures on the history and practice of the fine and ornamental arts (1875)
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890, Linton, W. J. (William James), 1812-1897, illustrator · New York : Scribner, Welford & Armstrong · leaf 152
0 camelswith the brass—a statement which Gibbon repudiates as anexaggeration. It is indeed difficult to imagine such a trainof beasts of burden loaded from the remains of one statue;but a possible solution of the difficulty has been found in thesuggestion that the merchant bargained for all the… … The Eavaria and the Ruhmeshalle. Munich. erected in Munich, one of the surprising creations of KingLudwig. She stands on a pavement to which you ascendby a broad flight of steps; a Doric colonnade, the Ruhmes-halle or Fame-temple, forming the background to the pe-destal, the goddess herself rising…
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