 | 1842 - 574 sidor
...was the first building I entered ; and from it I counted sixteen elevations, with broken walls and mounds of stones, and vast, magnificent edifices,...a scene strange enough for a work of enchantment. ' The Casa del Enano is 68 feet long. The elevation on which it stands is built up solid from the plain,... | |
 | 1842 - 630 sidor
...was the first building I entered ; and from it I counted sixteen elevations, with broken walls and mounds of stones , and vast, magnificent edifices,...a scene strange enough for a work of enchantment. 'The Casa del Enano is 68 feet long. The elevation on which.it stands is built up solid from the plain,... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1842 - 660 sidor
...first building I entered. From its front doorway I counted sixteen elevations with broken walls, and mounds of stones, and vast magnificent edifices, which at that distance seemed untouched by tune, and defying ruin. I stood in the doorway when the sun went down, throwing from the buildings... | |
 | 1854 - 744 sidor
...first building I entered. From its front doorway I counted sixteen elevations, with broken walls and mounds of stones, and vast magnificent edifices, which at that distance seemed untouched by * Incidents of Travel in Central America, t. ii. p. 420, sqq. time, and defying ruin. I stood in the... | |
 | John Frost - 1852 - 560 sidor
...first building I entered. From its front doorway I counted sixteen elevations, with broken walls and mounds of stones, and vast magnificent edifices which...untouched by time, and defying ruin. I stood in the doovway when the sun went down, throwing from the buildings a prodigious breadth of shadow, darkening... | |
 | William Linton - 1862 - 174 sidor
...stones. "From its front doorway, I could count sixteen elevations with broken walls and mounds of stone, and vast magnificent edifices, which, at that distance seemed untouched by time and defying ruin!"2 The stone-work inside is smoothly polished. About the height of the door is a rich cornice... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 578 sidor
...was the first building I entered ; and from it I counted sixteen elevations, with broken walls and mounds of stones, and vast, magnificent edifices,...prodigious breadth of shadow, darkening the terraces orm which they stood, and presenting a scene strange enough for a work of enchantment. ' The Casa del... | |
 | Vivien Lougheed, Bruce Conord - 2012 - 459 sidor
...2003 HUNTER PUBLISHING. INC. Uxmal From its front doorway 1 counted 16 elevations with broken walls, mounds of stones and vast, magnificent edifices which,...prodigious breadth of shadow, darkening the terraces, presenting a scene strange enough for a work of enchantment. ~ John L. Stephens, describing the vista... | |
 | Alma M. Reed, Michael K. Schuessler - 2007 - 364 sidor
...outside reactions to El Castillo del Adivino, Stephens wrote that he stood in its main entrance as the sun went down, "throwing from the buildings a...a scene strange enough for a work of enchantment." I was seeing the gigantic monument for the first time at sunrise, but my own vivid and enduring impressions... | |
 | S. Warrand - 1842 - 626 sidor
...was the first building I entered ; and from it I counted sixteen elevations, with broken walls and mounds of stones , and vast, magnificent edifices,...a scene strange enough for a work of enchantment. 'The Casa del Enano is 68 feet long. The elevation on which it stands is built up solid from the plain,... | |
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I counted sixteen elevations, with broken walls and mounds of stones, and vast, magnificent edifices, which at that distance seemed untouched by time and defying ruin. I stood in the doorway when the sun went down, throwing from the buildings a prodigious... 