Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania, Volume 1Mawman, 1820 - 1 pages |
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Page 10
... representing a ship , a lion , sun , a star , or any aother device : the grand prize this year was an allegorical representation of the new constitu- tion , which in the end turned out quite as delusive to the people as its prototype ...
... representing a ship , a lion , sun , a star , or any aother device : the grand prize this year was an allegorical representation of the new constitu- tion , which in the end turned out quite as delusive to the people as its prototype ...
Page 18
... representing the giants , who having been vanquished in the Titanic war were represented here , after * All the editions of Diodorus have 60 ; an incredible supposition in itself , which I proved to be false by actual measurement . How ...
... representing the giants , who having been vanquished in the Titanic war were represented here , after * All the editions of Diodorus have 60 ; an incredible supposition in itself , which I proved to be false by actual measurement . How ...
Page 49
... represented the goddess under this title , always turned the head gracefully behind , as if to indicate the origin ... representing the cortina spread over the oracular tripod , this statue has offered no bone for con- noisseurs to pick ...
... represented the goddess under this title , always turned the head gracefully behind , as if to indicate the origin ... representing the cortina spread over the oracular tripod , this statue has offered no bone for con- noisseurs to pick ...
Page 53
... represented upon the pateræ and lamps were extremely elegant , some very ludicrous , and others indescrib- ably indecent : nothing in the character of the ancients appears more extraordinary than that coarseness of ideas which could ...
... represented upon the pateræ and lamps were extremely elegant , some very ludicrous , and others indescrib- ably indecent : nothing in the character of the ancients appears more extraordinary than that coarseness of ideas which could ...
Page 72
... represented on a large canvass , placed behind the altar of the church , by the celebrated M. Angelo Caravaggio , in return for the hos- pitality which he received during a residence in Syracuse : but the damp has quite obliterated the ...
... represented on a large canvass , placed behind the altar of the church , by the celebrated M. Angelo Caravaggio , in return for the hos- pitality which he received during a residence in Syracuse : but the damp has quite obliterated the ...
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