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 97
asting Zeno with Cato, or De-mosthenes with Cicero. It is the same in their sculptureand their architecture; which are the sculpture and the 94 IMPOSING ASPECT OF ROME. architecture, not of a bright, radiant, imaginative, sensuouspeople, but of a stern, haughty, and somewhat asceticrace, who… … Ancient Rome. herself presents a spectacle of glorious splendour, evenin her decay, which Athens could never approach. Taking a -broad and comprehensive view of her porticoes, her temples, her fountains, her theatres, her publicplaces, her statues, her gardens, her Capitol, one is forced. ITS…
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