 | 1841 - 640 sidor
...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...life. If it stood at this day on its grand artificial terrnce in Hyde Park or the garden of the Tuilleries, it would form a new order, I do not say eyuallirg,... | |
 | 1842 - 712 sidor
...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...rudeness of savage life. If it stood at this day on tti grand artificial terrace, in Hyde Park or the Garden of the Tuileries, tt icotiJd form a ncic order,... | |
 | George Jones - 1843 - 514 sidor
...Architectural symmetry and grandeur ; and as the stranger ascends the steps, and casts a bewildered eye along its open and desolate doors, it is hard to believe,...to have perished in the rudeness of savage life." Injustice to those historians, it should be stated, that they did not know of these architectural wonders... | |
 | George Jones - 1843 - 500 sidor
...Architectural symmetry and grandeur ; and as the stranger ascends the steps, and casts a bewildered eye along its open and desolate doors, it is hard to believe,...to have perished in the rudeness of savage life." Injustice to those historians, it should be stated, that they did not know of these architectural wonders... | |
 | George Jones - 1843 - 572 sidor
...Architectural symmetry and grandeur ; and as the stranger ascends the steps, and casts a bewildered eye along its open and desolate doors, it is hard to believe,...to have perished in the rudeness of savage life." In justice to those historians, it should be stated, that they did not know of these architectural... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 354 sidor
...architectural symmetry and grandeur : and as the stranger ascends the steps, and casts a bewildered eye along its open and desolate doors, it is hard to 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
...stranger ascends the steps and casts a 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 as having perished in ignorance of the arts of civilized life."... | |
 | Pickering Dodge - 1850 - 404 sidor
...stranger ascends the steps and casts a 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 as having perished in ignorance of the arts of civilized life."... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1862 - 532 sidor
...architectural symmetry and grandeur ; and as the stranger ascends the steps and casts a bewildered eye along its open and desolate doors, it is hard to believe...perished in the rudeness of savage life. If it stood in Hyde Park or the Garden of the Tuileries, it would form a new order, I do not say equalling, but... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1862 - 524 sidor
...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 sees before him...perished in the rudeness of savage life. If it stood in Hyde Park or the Garden of the Tuileries, it would firm a new order, I do not say equalling, but... | |
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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... 
