 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1927 - 416 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 defiled by dust. Volney's... | |
 | 1897 - 694 pages
...scene we cast our eyes upon the ground, another almost as varied presents itself. "On whichever side we look the earth is strewed with vast stones half buried with broken entablatures, mutilated frie2es, disfigured reliefs, effaced sculptures, violated tombs and altars defiled by the... | |
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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. 
