 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 pages
...windows, and very broad and overhanging eaves, supported by carved brackets. The number of temples is very great, mostly small and stuck like shrines...beautiful and elaborate carvings of flowers, animals, and palm-branches, equalling in minuteness and richness the best specimens that I have seen of Gothic or... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pages
...windows, and very broad and overhanging eaves, supported by carved brackets. The number of temples is very great, mostly small and stuck like shrines...beautiful and elaborate carvings of flowers, animals, and palm-branches, equalling in minuteness and richness the best specimens that I have seen of Gothic or... | |
 | 1828 - 598 pages
...windows, and very broad and overhanging eaves, supported by carved brackets. The number of temples is very great, mostly small and stuck like shrines...beautiful and elaborate carvings of flowers, animals, and palm-branches, equalling in minuteness and richness the best specimens that I have seen of Gothic or... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1828 - 412 pages
...windows, and very broad and overhanging eaves, supported by carved brackets. The number of temples is very great, mostly small, and stuck like shrines...houses. Their forms, however, are not ungraceful; and many of them are entirely covered Over with beautiful and elaborate carvings of flowers, animals, and... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1828 - 618 pages
...windows, and very broad and overhanging eaves, supported by carved brackets. The number of temples is very great, mostly small, and stuck like shrines...streets, and under the shadow of the lofty houses. Their forme, however, are not ungraceful ; and many of them are entirely covered over with beautiful and... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1828 - 564 pages
...windows, and very broad and overhanging eaves, supported by carved brackets. The number of temples is very great, mostly small and stuck like shrines in the angles of the streets,'and under the shadow of the lofty houses. Their forms, however, are not ungraceful, and they... | |
 | Reginald Heber - 1829 - 252 pages
...windows, and very broad and overhanging eaves, supported by carved brackets. The number of temples is very great, mostly small, and stuck like shrines...beautiful and elaborate carvings of flowers, animals, and palm-branches, equalling in minuteness and richness the best specimens that I have seen of Gothic or... | |
 | 1829 - 762 pages
...supported by carved brackets. The number 401 of temples is rery great, mostly smell, and «tuck ¡ike shrines in the angles of the streets, and under the...however, are not ungraceful, and they are many of them entirelycovered over with beautiful and elaborate carvings of flowers, animals, and palm branches,... | |
 | Leonard Crocker Bowles - 1831 - 372 pages
...oriel windows.and very broad and overhanging eaves, supported by carved brackets. The number of temples is very great, mostly small and stuck like shrines in the angles of the streets, and under the shadows of the lofty houses. Their forms, however, are not ungraceful, and they are many of them entirely... | |
 | Robert Elliot - 1833 - 356 pages
...windows, and very broad and overhanging eaves, supported by carved brackets. The number of temples is very great, mostly small, and stuck like shrines...streets, and under the shadow of the lofty houses. These forms, however, are not ungraceful, and they are many of them entirely covered over with beautiful... | |
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... of the houses, which have mostly arched rows in front, with little shops behind them. Above these, the houses are richly embellished with verandahs, galleries, projecting oriel windows, and very broad and overhanging eaves, supported by carved brackets.... 
