A Popular Handbook to the Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British MuseumMacmillan, 1903 - 794 Seiten |
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... stones still stood the one upon the other . In future ages when our Museum is in turn a ruin , and our civilisation has ... stone , and are almost all that survives of that once wise and powerful people . The Egyptian mummies , which no ...
... stones still stood the one upon the other . In future ages when our Museum is in turn a ruin , and our civilisation has ... stone , and are almost all that survives of that once wise and powerful people . The Egyptian mummies , which no ...
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... stones such as we see here around us may be called the museums or record offices of the ancient world . In modern times ... stone was taken from the E B ruins of Iasos ( on the coast of Caria ) THE HALL OF INSCRIPTIONS- Inscriptions I.
... stones such as we see here around us may be called the museums or record offices of the ancient world . In modern times ... stone was taken from the E B ruins of Iasos ( on the coast of Caria ) THE HALL OF INSCRIPTIONS- Inscriptions I.
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... stone which marked the spot as unlucky , because it reminded the Romans of the tomb of the founder of their city , adding that Romulus was not buried there , but only Faustulus and one named Quintilius . In the excavations of 1899 there ...
... stone which marked the spot as unlucky , because it reminded the Romans of the tomb of the founder of their city , adding that Romulus was not buried there , but only Faustulus and one named Quintilius . In the excavations of 1899 there ...
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... stones now before us were taken ; and it is to silver images of the goddess that the inscriptions on the stones refer . They relate to a number of gold and silver images , weighing from three to seven lbs . each , which were dedicated ...
... stones now before us were taken ; and it is to silver images of the goddess that the inscriptions on the stones refer . They relate to a number of gold and silver images , weighing from three to seven lbs . each , which were dedicated ...
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... stone , • Forgotten more profoundly . The art of portrait statuary , taking rise in Greece , was extended by a natural instinct over the whole world ; from public characters in public places , the iconic statue passed into private ...
... stone , • Forgotten more profoundly . The art of portrait statuary , taking rise in Greece , was extended by a natural instinct over the whole world ; from public characters in public places , the iconic statue passed into private ...
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Seite 124 - Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus. but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands...
Seite 608 - The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond : it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars ; whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
Seite 371 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm...
Seite 197 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back...
Seite 191 - And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillow, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
Seite 6 - But be his My special thanks, whose even-balanced soul, From first youth tested up to extreme old age, Business could not make dull, nor passion wild ; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole ; The mellow glory of the Attic stage, Singer of sweet Colonus, and its child.
Seite 6 - THOU still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady ? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit ? ? What struggle to escape ? What pipes and timbrels ? What wild ecstasy...
Seite 143 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Seite 99 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Seite 143 - These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned; And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within.