 ... arts, their wealth and power. In the midst of desolation and ruin we looked back to the past, cleared away the- gloomy forest, and fancied every building perfect, with its terraces and pyramids, its sculptured and painted ornaments, grand, lofty,...  Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan - Sida 344efter John Lloyd Stephens - 1848Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Henry Brown - 1844 - 526 sidor
...In the midst of desolation and ruin we looked back to the past — cleared away the gloomy forests, and fancied every building perfect, with its terraces...life the strange people who gazed at us in sadness fro/ii the walls — pictured them in fanciful costumes, and adorned with plumes of feathers, ascending... | |
 | Henry Brown - 1844 - 524 sidor
...and ruined altars, and wherever we moved we saw the evidence of their taste — their skill in the arts — their wealth and power. In the midst of desolation...looked back to the past — cleared away the gloomy forests, and fancied every building perfect, with its terraces and pyramids, its sculptured and painted... | |
 | Estelle Anna LEWIS - 1866 - 484 sidor
...was all a mystery ; silent, defying the most scrutinizing gaze and reach of intellect. • » » " What we had before our eyes was grand, curious, and...called back into life the strange people who gazed at ns in sadness from the walls; pictured them, in fanciful costumes and adorned with plumes of feathers,... | |
 | Estelle Anna LEWIS - 1866 - 490 sidor
...unknown. The links which connected them with the human family were severed and lost, and these wore the only memorials of their footsteps upon earth....cleared away the- gloomy forest, and fancied every bnilding perfect, with its terraces and pyramids, its sculptured and painted ornaments, grand, lofty,... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 sidor
...wherever we moved, we saw the evidences of their taste, their skill in arts, their wealth and power. 8. In the midst of desolation and ruin, we looked back...with its terraces and pyramids, its sculptured and pointed ornaments, grand, lofty, and imposing, and overlooking an immense inhabited plain. We called... | |
 | 1885 - 436 sidor
...venerable fragments, can be used than those with which Stephens closes his description of these ruins. " In the midst of desolation and ruin we looked back...; we called back into life the strange people who ga/ed at us in sadness from the walls, and pictured them in fanciful costumes and adorned with plumes... | |
 | Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman - 1885 - 414 sidor
...venerable fragments, can be used than those with which Stephens close? his description of these ruins. " In the midst of desolation and ruin we looked back...gloomy forest and fancied every building perfect, with h its terraces and pyramids, its sculptured and painted ornamertts grand, lofty and imposing, and overlooking... | |
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