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 47
like the navigatoron a shoreless sea, in the grand march of Time; and todetermine what manifestation of truth and divinity Godhas made to the generation of which he forms a unit ! It is a curious fact, and it invests the Parthenon witha special human interest, that beneath the metopes of theeastern… … Greek Soldiers :—From an ancient Bas-Relief. who had worn or w^on them in battle. To these shieldsEuripides seems to allude in a very beautiful passage :— yripif ^viOtKOL-qv aeetSot/at 8e cTTe(j)dvOL^ Kapa ttoKlov (TTi(j>avit}aa<;^ @p-qLKiav TreArav Trpos AOr/va^ nepiKio(TLV a-y/cpcjado-as…
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