 | 1842 - 574 Seiten
...form an extraordinary mass of richness and complexity, and the effect is both grand and curious. And the construction of these ornaments is not less peculiar...separate stones, on each of which part of the subject was curved, and which was then set in its place in the wall. Each stone, by itself, was an unmeaning fractional... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - 600 Seiten
...form an extraordinary mass of richness and complexity and the effect is both grand and curious. And the construction of these ornaments is not less peculiar...carved, and which was then set in its place in the wall. Each stone, by itself, was an unmeaning fractional part ; but, placed by the side of others, helped... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - 578 Seiten
...form an extraordinary mass of richness and complexity and the effect is both grand and curious. And the construction of these ornaments is not less peculiar...carved, and which was then set in its place in the wall. Each stone, by itself, was an unmeaning fractional part ; but, placed by the side of others, helped... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1842 - 660 Seiten
...form an extraordinary mass of richness and complexity, and the effect is both grand and curious. And the construction of these ornaments is not less peculiar...ornament or combination is made up of separate stones, upon each of which part of the subject was carved, and which was then set in its place in the wall.... | |
 | 1842 - 630 Seiten
...an extraordinary mass of richness and complexity, and the effect is both grand,, aud, curious. And the construction of these ornaments is not less peculiar...by itself an entire subject ; but every ornament or comhination is made up of separate stones, on each of which part of the subject was curved, and which... | |
 | George Jones - 1843 - 500 Seiten
...form an extraordinary mass of richness and complexity, and the effect is both grand and curious; and the construction of these ornaments is not less peculiar...tablets or single stones, each representing separately, or by itself, an entire subject ; but every ornament or combination is made up of separate stones,... | |
 | George Jones - 1843 - 572 Seiten
...form an extraordinary mass of richness and complexity, and the effect is both grand and curious; and the construction of these ornaments is not less peculiar...tablets or single stones, each representing separately, or by itself, an entire subject ; but every ornament or combination is made up of separate stones,... | |
 | George Jones - 1843 - 514 Seiten
...form an extraordinary mass of richness and complexity, and the effect is both grand and curious; and the construction of these ornaments is not less peculiar...tablets or single stones, each representing separately, or by itself, an entire subject ; but every ornament or combination is made up of separate stones,... | |
 | John L. Stephens - 1843 - 554 Seiten
...in the engraving show- that, as I remarked in my former account, there is no tablet or single stone representing separately and by itself an entire subject,...ornament or combination is made up of separate stones, each of which had carved on it part of the subject, and was then set in its place in the wall. Each... | |
 | 1854 - 744 Seiten
...form an extraordinary mass of richness and complexity, and the effect is both grand and curious. And the construction of these ornaments is not less peculiar...entire subject; but every ornament or combination is mad« up of separate stones, on each of which part of the subject was carved, and which was then set... | |
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And the construction of these ornaments is not less peculiar and striking than the general effect. There were no tablets or single stones, each representing separately and by itself an entire subject ; but every ornament or combination is made up of separate... 
