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 258
murmurs the ripple of the Medi-terranean, while the picture is filled up by tremendousrocks embellished with the verdure of various kinds ofcactus, by the ruins of ancient edifices remarkable fortheir solidity and magnificence, by the white town perchedon its beetling precipice, by the creeks and… … Ruins of Taormina. singular and impressive intensity of colour! The richpurple undertones affect the senses like music; and asthe sun rises subHmely from the east, it flings the fulnessof its glory on the blasted front of the volcano, whichreddens from base to summit with a glow like that of itsown…
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