 | 1068 pages
...Writing six liundred years after their erection, he continues : — " For each of them, as soon as finished, had the venerable air of antiquity ; so,...old, they have the freshness of a modern building. A bloom is diffused over them •which preserves their aspect untarnished by time, as if they were... | |
 | 1862 - 636 pages
...ages." Writing six hundred years after their erection, he continues : — " For each of them, as soon as finished, had the venerable air of antiquity ; so,...old, they have the freshness of a modern building. A bloom is diffused отег them which preserves their aspect untarnished by time, as if they were... | |
 | Clara Erskine Clement Waters - 1885 - 336 pages
...raised by Pericles should be built in so short a time, and yet built for ages. For as each of them, as soon as it was finished, had the venerable air...old they have the freshness of a modern building. A bloom is diffused over them which preserves their aspect untarnished by time, as if they were animated... | |
 | Clara Erskine Clement Waters - 1885 - 326 pages
...raised by Pericles should be built in so short a time, and yet built for ages. For as each of them, as soon as it was finished, had the venerable air...old they have the freshness of a modern building. A bloom is diffused over them which preserves their aspect untarnished by time, as if they were animated... | |
 | Clara Erskine Clement Waters - 1887 - 908 pages
...raised by Pericles should be built in so short a time, and yet built for ages. For as each of them, as soon as it was finished, had the venerable air...old they have the freshness of a modern building. A bloom is diffused over them which preserves their aspect untarnished by time, as if they were animated... | |
 | 1862 - 608 pages
...Writing six hundred years after I their erection, he couiinucs : — " For each of them, as soon as finished, had the venerable air of antiquity ; so, now that they are old, thtj I have the freshness of a modern building. A bloom is diffused отег then I which preserves... | |
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... period of twenty years nearly all the great works of that country were begun and completed. Plutarch writes of these wonders in these words : " Hence we have the more reason to wonder that the structures raised by Pericles should be built in so short... 