The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 29
s, and was ransomedby Charaxus of Mitylene, a brother of Sappho, the poetess. 6 EGYPT AND NUBIA. only limestone coverings, whitened by eternal sum-mer suns. But beauty was the quality least aimed atduring the Memphite period, grandeur, eternity, in-destructibility, awe, and mystery being the… … Fig. 3.—The Sphinx. struction ; between building as a matter of engineer-ing and building as a matter of taste. Another monument near Cairo should not bepassed over in silence—namely, the Sphinx (Fig. 3). This colossal statue, fashioned halt human, halflion, is the oldest and largest of all…
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