Wonders of the World as Seen and Described by Great WritersEsther Singleton Dodd, Mead, 1912 - 359 pages |
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... height on a kind of es- planade paved with long slabs of stone . But was it then more sovereign than it is to - night in its last decrepitude ? Almost buried beneath the sands of the Libyan desert , be- neath which its base is no longer ...
... height on a kind of es- planade paved with long slabs of stone . But was it then more sovereign than it is to - night in its last decrepitude ? Almost buried beneath the sands of the Libyan desert , be- neath which its base is no longer ...
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... height of 198 feet , and has on its summit a compact mass of brickwork thirty- seven feet high by twenty - eight broad , the whole being thus 235 in perpendicular height . Neither the original form nor object of the edifice , of which ...
... height of 198 feet , and has on its summit a compact mass of brickwork thirty- seven feet high by twenty - eight broad , the whole being thus 235 in perpendicular height . Neither the original form nor object of the edifice , of which ...
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... height about one hundred canna . A spiral passage , built into the tower , leads up to the summit , from which there is a prospect of twenty miles , the country being one wide plain and quite level . The heavenly fire which struck the ...
... height about one hundred canna . A spiral passage , built into the tower , leads up to the summit , from which there is a prospect of twenty miles , the country being one wide plain and quite level . The heavenly fire which struck the ...
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... height of at least seventy - five feet , and was covered at top with a great mass of earth , in which there grew not merely flowers and shrubs , but trees also of the largest size . Water was supplied from the Euphrates through pipes ...
... height of at least seventy - five feet , and was covered at top with a great mass of earth , in which there grew not merely flowers and shrubs , but trees also of the largest size . Water was supplied from the Euphrates through pipes ...
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... height of the walls . Herodotus says that the height was 200 royal cubits , or 300 royal feet ( about 335 English ) ; Ctesias made it fifty fathoms or 300 ordinary Greek feet ; Pliny and Solinus , substituting feet for the royal cubits ...
... height of the walls . Herodotus says that the height was 200 royal cubits , or 300 royal feet ( about 335 English ) ; Ctesias made it fifty fathoms or 300 ordinary Greek feet ; Pliny and Solinus , substituting feet for the royal cubits ...
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adorned altar Ananga Pala ancient Anio Anio Novus aqueducts arches architecture Assouan bath Baths of Caracalla beautiful bell Beni Hasan blocks brick building built carved centre Century Chaitya Chares of Lindos Christian church colonnade colossal colour columns construction covered cubits decorated diameter dimensions dome dynasty edifice Egypt Egyptian Emperor entrance erected excavations feet high figures four frieze galleries gate gigantic goddess gold golden granite Greek hall height Herodotus hundred immense inscriptions Iron Pillar Kaabah king light magnificent marble masonry Mausoleum menhirs metopes miles monument mosque Nile one-half inches original ornaments pagoda painted palace Parthenon passed pavement Peacock Throne peristyle Pheidias placed platform Pyramid remains rise rock Roman Rome roof round ruins sacred Sanchi sculptured seen side stands statue stone Stonehenge stood summit surrounded temple terrace Thermæ throne tion tomb tons tôpe tower Trajan vast walls whole wonderful Zeus
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Page 134 - This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, among the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever-winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air.
Page 192 - But the most renowned of the Peruvian temples, the pride of the capital, and the wonder of the empire, was at Cuzco, where, under the munificence of successive sovereigns, it had become so enriched, that it received the name of Coricancha, or "the Place of Gold.
Page 286 - ... where were white, green, and blue hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black marble.
Page 190 - It is remarkable that this important institution should have been known to both the Mexicans and the Peruvians without any correspondence with one another; and that it should have been found among two barbarian nations of the New World, long before it was introduced among the civilized nations of Europe. By these wise contrivances of the Incas, the most distant parts of the long-extended empire of Peru were brought into intimate relations with each other. And while the capitals of Christendom, but...
Page 242 - OM, AMITAYA ! measure not with words Th' Immeasurable ; nor sink the string of thought Into the Fathomless. Who asks doth err, Who answers, errs. Say nought...
Page 146 - Suffer little children to come to me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
Page 194 - ... the reservoirs that received it, even the agricultural implements used in the gardens of the temple, were all of the same rich materials. The gardens, like those described belonging to the royal palaces, sparkled with flowers of gold and silver, and various imitations of the vegetable kingdom.
Page 84 - Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves my watch I keep, A ruddy gem of changeful light, Bound on the dusky brow of night, The seaman bids my lustre hail. And scorns to strike his timorous sail.
Page 187 - ... stretched across the water, were conducted through rings or holes cut in immense buttresses of stone raised on the opposite banks of the river, and there secured to heavy pieces of timber. Several of these enormous cables, bound together, formed a bridge, which, covered with planks, well secured arid defended by a railing of the same osier materials on the sides, afforded a safe passage for the traveller.
Page 193 - It was so situated in front of the great eastern portal that the rays of the morning sun fell directly upon it at its rising, lighting up the whole apartment with an effulgence that seemed more than natural, and which was reflected back from the golden ornaments with which the walls and ceiling were everywhere incrusted. Gold, in the figurative language of the people, was 'the tears wept by the sun,' and every part of the temple glowed with burnished plates and studs of the precious metal.