Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 181
of man which they enframe, there isa striking general sympathy.^ The pecLiHar character of Egyptian architecture is owing toits laternal extension, and to those wide-spreading bases andfoundations which suggest the inchnation of the superincumbentwalls. In looking at one of these buildings, we feel… … Fic,. 60.—The Libyan chain, above the necropolis of Thebes. architecture which is peculiar to itself, and suggests an idea ofunbounded durability.^ 1 Egyptian landscape is well characterised in these lines of M. Ch. Blanc, takenfrom the Voyage de la Haute-Egypte (p. 116): Pour le moment, notre…
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