Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania: 1 (1820)Mawman, 1820 - 532 pages |
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... adorn the site of Agrigentum , a city , which , as an eminent historian observes , was such a phenomenon of political prosperity , that these very relics are ne- cessary documents for supporting the truth of its historical records ...
... adorn the site of Agrigentum , a city , which , as an eminent historian observes , was such a phenomenon of political prosperity , that these very relics are ne- cessary documents for supporting the truth of its historical records ...
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... adorned with a miracle of art , a statue of the presiding deity by Myro , who inscribed his own name upon the thigh , in small studs of silver . Cicero , in his lively description of a nocturnal attempt made by the emissaries of Verres ...
... adorned with a miracle of art , a statue of the presiding deity by Myro , who inscribed his own name upon the thigh , in small studs of silver . Cicero , in his lively description of a nocturnal attempt made by the emissaries of Verres ...
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... adorn our national Museum . Leaving these Olympian ruins , the scattered fragments of whose vast entablature and ... adorned by two elegant columns of the * It is plain he never could have read the account of this very temple in Diod ...
... adorn our national Museum . Leaving these Olympian ruins , the scattered fragments of whose vast entablature and ... adorned by two elegant columns of the * It is plain he never could have read the account of this very temple in Diod ...
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... adorned with the beauties of nature , surrounded with the vestiges of antiquity , and rich in scenes of historic interest , till they rested upon a bluff point , opposite the island at its entrance : this spot is the ancient promontory ...
... adorned with the beauties of nature , surrounded with the vestiges of antiquity , and rich in scenes of historic interest , till they rested upon a bluff point , opposite the island at its entrance : this spot is the ancient promontory ...
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... adorned its banks ; but I beheld Arethusa , the lovely Arethusa , so celebrated in songs of ancient minstrelsy , and so honoured in the choicest specimens of nu- mismatic art , despoiled of all her charms , and degraded to the vile ...
... adorned its banks ; but I beheld Arethusa , the lovely Arethusa , so celebrated in songs of ancient minstrelsy , and so honoured in the choicest specimens of nu- mismatic art , despoiled of all her charms , and degraded to the vile ...
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