Mahaffy, John Pentland, Sir, 1839-1919 · London Macmillan · leaf 53
ed and mutilated thatthe photographs of to-day give no idea of its decoration. The carefuldrawings and restorations of Stuart and Rcvctt were made in the lastcentury, -when it was still comparatively intact, and it is through theirbooh alone that we can now estimate the merits of many of the… … il] A THENS AND A TTICA. 33 feet in diameter, and no Corinthian pillar of thiscolossal size would ever have been set up by theGreeks in their better days. So, then, in spite ofthe grandeur of these isolated remains—a grandeurnot destroyed, perhaps even not diminished, bycoffee tables, and inquiring…
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