 ... to enable a skilful architect to form an accurate plan of Delphi: but it should be fitted to a model of Parnassus ; for in the harmonious adjustment which was here conspicuous, of the works of God and man, every stately edifice and majestic pile constructed...  Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania - Page 373by Thomas Smart Hughes - 1820 - 532 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1818 - 544 pages
...the works of God and man, every stately edifice and every majestic pile raised by human labour was made to form a part of the awful features of the mountain. From whatever quarter DELPHI was approached, a certain solemn impression of supernatural agency must... | |
 | 1821 - 536 pages
...man, every stately edifice . and majestic pile constructed by human labour, were made to form a ter Delphi was approached, a certain solemn impression...throughout Greece, and ' ALL PARNASSUS WAS ACCOUNTED i HOLY.'" I part of the awful features of the mountains, and from whatever quarIt is a singular feature... | |
 | Benjamin Thomas H. Cole - 1829 - 288 pages
...of the spot were scrupulously consulted in the progress of human labours ; every stately edifice was made to form a part of the awful features of the mountain. From whatever quarter Delphi was approached, a solemn impression of supernatural agency must have been... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1837 - 604 pages
...Cyclopean masonry may still be traced, in which the streets, rising in terraces behind each other, were made to form a part of the awful features of the mountain. At the foot of a precipice, above which the rock shoots up into two pointed crags, the visitor sees... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1839 - 618 pages
...Cyclopean masonry may still be traced, in which the streets, rising in terraces behind each other, were made to form a part of the awful features of the mountain. At the foot of a precipice, above which the rock shoots up into two pointed crags, the visiter sees... | |
 | William O. Blake - 1855 - 1010 pages
...Cyclopean masonry may still be traced, in which the streets, rising in terraces behind each other, were made to form a part of the awful features of the mountain. At the foot of a precipice, above which the rock shoots up into two pointed crags, the visiter sees... | |
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