Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania, Volume 1J. Mawman, 1820 - 532 pages |
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... Grecian Damsel returning from the Fountain --- Mount Anchesmus --- Inscriptions decy- phered --- Statue of Anchesmian Jupiter --- Author attends the School of Athens to hear Homer expounded --- Greek Composition as now taught ...
... Grecian Damsel returning from the Fountain --- Mount Anchesmus --- Inscriptions decy- phered --- Statue of Anchesmian Jupiter --- Author attends the School of Athens to hear Homer expounded --- Greek Composition as now taught ...
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... Grecian colonies no less than their mother - country . 66 Having crossed the island in two days , we arrived in view of the sea , and of those beautiful temples , whose ruins still adorn the site of Agrigentum , a city , which , as an ...
... Grecian colonies no less than their mother - country . 66 Having crossed the island in two days , we arrived in view of the sea , and of those beautiful temples , whose ruins still adorn the site of Agrigentum , a city , which , as an ...
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... Grecian colony * , its inhabitants , like the rest of that people , were not more studious in acquiring wealth , than profuse in expending it upon the elegancies of life . The brightest era of its prosperity ex- tended from the reign of ...
... Grecian colony * , its inhabitants , like the rest of that people , were not more studious in acquiring wealth , than profuse in expending it upon the elegancies of life . The brightest era of its prosperity ex- tended from the reign of ...
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... Grecian art ! Amongst them stood six majestic temples , of that severe Doric order , which so happily com- bines elegance and simplicity with solidity and grandeur . The S.E. angle is still seen crowned with the ruinated colonnade of ...
... Grecian art ! Amongst them stood six majestic temples , of that severe Doric order , which so happily com- bines elegance and simplicity with solidity and grandeur . The S.E. angle is still seen crowned with the ruinated colonnade of ...
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... Grecian art : there the sculptor aimed to rival the bard , embodying his ideas in the most animated forms , and giving a local habitation to the characters of his imagination : there the mysteries of religion or the actions of the gods ...
... Grecian art : there the sculptor aimed to rival the bard , embodying his ideas in the most animated forms , and giving a local habitation to the characters of his imagination : there the mysteries of religion or the actions of the gods ...
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Acradina acropolis admiration adorned Agathocles Agrigentum Albanian amidst amongst Anapus ancient antiquity Apollo appeared Arethusa Argive Argos arrived ascended Athenian Athens beautiful called Catania cavern celebrated Cephalonia character church Cicero citadel curious Cyclopéan Cyclopes dedicated deity Delphi Dionysius discovered edifice Epipolæ erected Etna excavations extraordinary Fazzello feet festival formed Grecian Greece Greek harbour head height honour inhabitants inscription island Jupiter lava magnificent marble Messina modern monument Morea Mount Etna mountains Mycena noble observed ornament Ortygia Palermo pasha Pausan Pausanias plain Plutarch poet Polybius probably remains rock Roman ruins sacred scarcely scene sculpture seems sepulchre shew Sicilian Sicily side Signore soon spot statue stone stood Strabo summit supposed Syracusan Syracuse tatar temple theatre tion Tiryns tomb tower traveller Turkish Turks tyrant vaivode vases walls whilst Zacynthus Zante δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τε τὸ τὸν τῶν