 | 1841 - 640 sidor
...barbarity in the designs or proportions ; on. the contrary the whole wears an architectural air of symmetry and grandeur ; and as the stranger ascends...the steps and casts a bewildered eye along its open desolate doors, it is hard to believe that he sees before him the work of a race in whose epitaph,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 248 sidor
...grand and curious. There is no rudeness or barbarity in the design or proportions of the building; on the contrary, the whole wears an air of architectural...believe that he sees before him the work of a race of men deserving the name which has been bestowed upon them by their historians, of savages, ignorant... | |
 | Pickering Dodge - 1850 - 376 sidor
...that runs along the tops of the door way, and above filled with sculpture, rich, grand and elaborate. The whole wears an air of architectural symmetry and...bewildered eye along its open and desolate doors, it is difficult to believe that he sees before him the work of a race who have been described by historians... | |
 | Pickering Dodge - 1850 - 404 sidor
...that runs along the tops of the door way, and above filled with sculpture, rich, grand and elaborate. The whole wears an air of architectural symmetry and...bewildered eye along its open and desolate doors, it is difficult to believe that he sees before him the work of a race who have been described by historians... | |
 | William Linton - 1862 - 174 sidor
...third terrace stands the palace itself, the fa9ade measuring 320 feet. The whole building is of stone, and as the stranger ascends the steps and casts a...believe that he sees before him the work of " a race who are ignorant of art and are said to have perished in the rudeness of savage life."1 This palace... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1862 - 524 sidor
...and elaborate sculpture. Of this magnificent ruin Mr. Stephens remarks : " There is no rude:.• -.1 or barbarity in the design or proportions ; on the...symmetry and grandeur; and as the stranger ascends the •tepg and casts a bewildered eye along its open and dtaiolate doors, it is hard to believe that he... | |
 | sir Daniel Wilson - 1865 - 1014 sidor
...feet, with rich, strange, and elaborate sculpture. Of this magnificent ruin Mr. Stephens remarks : " There is no rudeness or barbarity in the design or...grandeur ; and as the stranger ascends the steps and xvi.] Native Character of the Civilisation. 335 casts a bewildered eye along its open and desolate... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1865 - 686 sidor
...feet, with rich, strange, and elaborate sculpture. Of this magnificent ruin Mr. Stephens remarks : " There is no rudeness or barbarity in the design or...grandeur ; and as the stranger ascends the steps and xvi.] Native Character of the Civilisation. 335 casts a bewildered eye along its open and desolate... | |
 | John Wells Foster - 1874 - 434 sidor
...In reference to the architecture of the " House of the Governor," at Uxmal, he further observes : " There is no rudeness or barbarity in the design or...wears an air of architectural symmetry and grandeur. ... If it stood at this day, on its great artificial terraces in Hyde Park or the garden of the Tuileries,... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - 1890 - 592 sidor
...sculpture, and I can best describe it by copying what was written by Stephens nearly fifty years ago : ' There is no rudeness or barbarity in the design or...hard to believe that he sees before him the work of a face in whose epitaph, as written by historians, they are called ignorant of art, and said to have... | |
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There is no rudeness or barbarity in the design or proportions ; on the contrary, the whole wears an air of architectural symmetry and grandeur ; and as the stranger ascends the steps and casts a bewildered eye along its open and desolate doors, it is... 
