Temples, tombs, and monuments of ancient Greece and Rome. A description and a history of some of the most remarkable memorials of classical architecture (1871)
Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891 · London, New York [etc.] T. Nelson and sons · leaf 17
ow shattered into fragments, and wornwith the corroding touch of Time ! How magnificentmust have been the spectacle when the superb edifices,whose ruins now lie before us, stood erect in all theirbeauty, with the gleam of marble, and the sheen of pre-cious metals, in the golden sunlight of a… … Ancient Athens (Restored). as Raleigh reminds us,* writes upon each gray mossystone the mournful epigraph—Hie jacet. Yet it is something more than an everyday lesson ofmutability that the famous city and its broken monu-ments should teach us. All has 7iot passed away : thetemples may be shattered,…
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