Travels in Sicily, Greece and AlbaniaJ. Mawman, 1820 - 532 pages |
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Page vii
... Beautiful Gardens in a Lautomia or ancient Stone Quarry Church of Santa Lucia - Shrine and Image of the Saint - Supposed Ruins of the Hexacontaclinos , and Construction of a curious Arch - Baths excavated by the Cavaliere PAGE 1 37 viii ...
... Beautiful Gardens in a Lautomia or ancient Stone Quarry Church of Santa Lucia - Shrine and Image of the Saint - Supposed Ruins of the Hexacontaclinos , and Construction of a curious Arch - Baths excavated by the Cavaliere PAGE 1 37 viii ...
Page 7
... advantages might have remained to our unfortunate allies at the conclusion of the war , whereas that constitution , so beautiful in theory , which rose at once , like a 8 MANNERS OF THE SICILIAN CAPITAL . fairy - palace.
... advantages might have remained to our unfortunate allies at the conclusion of the war , whereas that constitution , so beautiful in theory , which rose at once , like a 8 MANNERS OF THE SICILIAN CAPITAL . fairy - palace.
Page 13
... beautiful temples , whose ruins still 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 ...
... beautiful temples , whose ruins still 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 ...
Page 20
... beautiful specimens from the pediments of the Parthenon , which now adorn our national Museum . Leaving these Olympian ruins , the scattered fragments of whose vast entablature and capitals appear at first sight like disjointed rocks ...
... beautiful specimens from the pediments of the Parthenon , which now adorn our national Museum . Leaving these Olympian ruins , the scattered fragments of whose vast entablature and capitals appear at first sight like disjointed rocks ...
Page 22
... beautiful statue of Apollo , which Scipio had restored to the Agrigentines after the capture of Carthage . It appears to have been a pseudo - dipteral temple , like that of Jupiter Olympius , though much smaller in dimensions : two co ...
... beautiful statue of Apollo , which Scipio had restored to the Agrigentines after the capture of Carthage . It appears to have been a pseudo - dipteral temple , like that of Jupiter Olympius , though much smaller in dimensions : two co ...
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