 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1806 - 168 pages
...but subverted shafts, some entire, others shattered to pieces, or dislocated in their joints ; and on which side soever we look, the earth is strewed...with broken entablatures, damaged capitals, mutilated frizes, disfigured reliefs, effaced sculptures, violated tombs, and altars denied by dust. — VOLNEY'S... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1809 - 202 pages
...magnificent columns. On all sides he is surrounded with subverted shafts, some entire, others broken : the earth is strewed with vast stones, half buried,...with broken entablatures, damaged capitals, mutilated fuzes, \io»< 1 tombs, and altars denied with dust. AMERICAN SELECTION. 139 majestic remains of the... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1814 - 240 pages
...magnificent columns. On all sides he is surrounded with subverted shafts, some entire, others broken ; the earth is strewed with vast stones half buried,...with broken entablatures, damaged capitals, mutilated frizes, violated tombs, and altars defiled with dust. 4. But the spectator's curiosity will be arrested... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1833 - 384 pages
...from this striking scene we cast our eves upon the ground, another almost as varied presents itself. On which side soever we look, the earth is strewed...vast stones half buried, with broken entablatures, mutilated friezes, disfigured reliefs, effaced sculptures, violated tombs, and altars defiled by the... | |
 | Ern. Frid. Car Rosenmüller - 1836 - 706 pages
...but subverted shafts, some whole, others shattered to pieces, or dislocated in their joints ; and, on which side soever we look, the earth is strewed...sculptures, violated tombs, and altars defiled by dust." — Volney's Travek, Eng. Trans. Vol. ii. p. 281. No. VII. — Barker's Tour in Syria — One... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1836 - 776 pages
...from this striking scene we cast our eyes upon the ground, another almost as varied presents itself. On which side soever we look, the earth is strewed...vast stones, half buried, with broken entablatures, mutilated friezes, disfigured reliefs, effaced sculptures, violated tombs, and altars defiled by the... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 646 pages
...that, similar to rows of trees, they deceive the sight, and assume the appearance of continued Avails. On which side soever we look the earth is strewed...entablatures, damaged capitals, mutilated friezes, disfigured relics, effaced sculptures, violated tombs, and altars defiled by mud." — " Of these," writes another... | |
 | Frederick Adolphus Packard - 1837 - 660 pages
...subverted shafts, some above others shattered to pieces, or dislocated in their joints. And whichever way we look, the earth is strewed with vast stones half buried with broken entablatures, mutilated friezes, disfigured relics, effaced sculptures, violated tombs, and altars defiled by dust."... | |
 | John R. Miles - 1838 - 400 pages
...nothing but subverted shafts, some whole, others shattered to pieces or dislocated in their joints ; and on which side soever we look, the earth is strewed with vast stones fialf-buried, with broken entablatures, mutilated friezes, disfigured reliefs, effaced sculptures,... | |
 | 1839 - 580 pages
...nothing but subverted shafts, some whole, others shattered to pieces or dislocated in their joints : and on which side soever we look, the earth is strewed...vast stones, half buried, with broken entablatures, mutilated friezes, disfigured relicks, effaced sculptures, violated tombs, and altars defiled by diisi."... | |
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... on which side soever we look, the earth is strewed with vast stones, half buried, with broken entablatures, mutilated friezes, disfigured reliefs, effaced sculptures, violated tombs, and altars defiled by dust. 
