| Richard Chandler - 1817 - 736 pages
...dressed out to receive the votaries of the goddess. * These horses are mentioned in a letter to Crusius. It is to be regretted that so much admirable sculpture, as is still extant about this fabric, should be.all.Hkeljr, to j>erish, as it were immaturely, from igno.rant contempt and brutal violence. Numerous... | |
| Ennio Quirino Visconti - 1818 - 178 pages
...à la hauteur de la frise du pronaôs, immédiatement (i) Chandler, Travels in Greece , c. x, p. 5o. It is to be regretted that so much admirable sculpture as is still extant abont this fabric, should be ail likely to perish, as it were , immediately, from ignorant contempt... | |
| University of Oxford - 1824 - 180 pages
...with the spoils of Athens; and by an attempt to take down the principal group, hastened their ruin. It is to be regretted, that so much admirable sculpture, as is still extant about this fabric, should a Stuart, vol. ii. be all likely to perish, as it were immaturely, from ignorant contempt and brutal... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1887 - 482 pages
...expresses his regret that * so much admirable sculpture as is still extant about (the Parthenon) . . . should be all likely to perish as it were immaturely from ignorant contempt and brutal violence.' ' We purchased two fine fragments of the frieze (of the Parthenon) which we found inserted over the... | |
| 1922 - 1578 pages
...expresses his regret that ' so much admirable sculpture as is still extant about (the Parthenon) . . . should be all likely to perish as it were immaturely from ignorant contempt and brutal violence.' 'We purchased two fine fragments of the frieze (of the Parthenon) which we found inserted over the... | |
| Olga Palagia - 1998 - 178 pages
...in Asia Minor and Greece 2 (London 1817), 58. 36. Chandler, op. cit. (n. 35), 53. Cf. ibid., 57, "1t is to be regretted that so much admirable sculpture, as is still extant about the fabric, should be all likely to perish, as it were immaturely, from ignorant contempt and brutal... | |
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