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... Stucco Ornament - A Wooden Lintel - A curious Cave - Buildings , & c . - A Causeway -More Ruins - Journey to Palenque - Rio Grande - Cascades - Succession of Villages -A Maniac - The Yahalon - Tumbala - A wild Place - A Scene of ...
... Stucco Ornament - A Wooden Lintel - A curious Cave - Buildings , & c . - A Causeway -More Ruins - Journey to Palenque - Rio Grande - Cascades - Succession of Villages -A Maniac - The Yahalon - Tumbala - A wild Place - A Scene of ...
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... Stucco Ornaments - Human Figures -Tablets Remarkable Hieroglyphics - Range of Pillars - Stone Terrace - Another Building - A large Tablet - A Cross - Conjectures in regard to this Cross - Beautiful Sculpture - A Platform - Curious ...
... Stucco Ornaments - Human Figures -Tablets Remarkable Hieroglyphics - Range of Pillars - Stone Terrace - Another Building - A large Tablet - A Cross - Conjectures in regard to this Cross - Beautiful Sculpture - A Platform - Curious ...
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... Stucco 429 53 No. 2. - Bas - relief in Stucco 430 54 No. 3. - Bas - relief in Stucco 55 Oval Bas - relief in Stone 56 Bas - relief in Stucco 57 General Plan of Palenque 58 Casa No. 1. in Ruins 59 Casa No. 1. Restored 60 No. 1. - Bas ...
... Stucco 429 53 No. 2. - Bas - relief in Stucco 430 54 No. 3. - Bas - relief in Stucco 55 Oval Bas - relief in Stone 56 Bas - relief in Stucco 57 General Plan of Palenque 58 Casa No. 1. in Ruins 59 Casa No. 1. Restored 60 No. 1. - Bas ...
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... stucco ornaments and figures of saints larger than life ; at each angle was a high tower , and over the dome a spire , rearing aloft in the air the crown of that once proud power which wrested the greatest part of America from its ...
... stucco ornaments and figures of saints larger than life ; at each angle was a high tower , and over the dome a spire , rearing aloft in the air the crown of that once proud power which wrested the greatest part of America from its ...
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... stucco , cracked and yawning , roofless , without doors or windows , and trees growing inside above the walls . Many of the houses have been repaired , the city is repeopled , and pre- sents a strange appearance of ruin and recovery ...
... stucco , cracked and yawning , roofless , without doors or windows , and trees growing inside above the walls . Many of the houses have been repaired , the city is repeopled , and pre- sents a strange appearance of ruin and recovery ...
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Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan John L. Stephens Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1854 |
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan John L. Stephens Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1854 |
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, & Yucatan, Volym 1 John L. Stephens Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1949 |
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Sida 62 - The world's great mistress on the Egyptian plain," but architecture, sculpture, and painting, all the arts which embellish life, had flourished in this overgrown forest; orators, warriors, and statesmen, beauty, ambition, and glory, had lived and passed away, and none knew that such things had been, or could tell of their past existence. Books, the records of knowledge, are silent on this theme.
Sida 62 - In Egypt the colossal skeletons of gigantic temples stand in the unwatered sands in all the nakedness of desolation; here an immense forest shrouded the ruins, hiding them from sight, heightening the impression and moral effect, and giving an intensity and almost wildness to the interest.
Sida 60 - The sight of this unexpected monument put at rest at once and for ever, in our minds, all uncertainty in regard to the character of American antiquities, and gave us the assurance that the objects we were in search of were interesting, not only as the remains of an unknown people, but as works of art, proving, like newly discovered historical records, that the people who once occupied the continent of America were not savages.
Sida 473 - Here were the remains of a cultivated, polished, and peculiar people, who had passed through all the stages incident to the rise and fall of nations; reached their golden age, and perished, entirely unknown. The links which connected them with the human family were severed and lost, and these were the only memorials of their footsteps upon earth.
Sida 71 - It is impossible to describe the interest with which I explored these ruins. The ground was entirely new; there were no guide-books or guides; the whole was a virgin soil. We could not see ten yards before us, and never knew what we should stumble upon next. At one time we stopped to cut away branches and vines which concealed the face of a monument, and then to dig around and bring to light a fragment, a sculptured comer of which protruded from the earth.
Sida 71 - ... stone, I pushed the Indians away, and cleared out the loose earth with my hands. The beauty of the sculpture, the solemn stillness of the woods, disturbed only by the scrambling of monkeys and the chattering of parrots, the desolation of the city, and the mystery that hung over it, all created an interest higher, if possible, than I had ever felt among the ruins of the Old World.
Sida 80 - The front or river wall extends on a right line north and south six hundred and twenty-four feet, and it is from sixty to ninety feet in height. It is made of cut stones, from three to six feet in length, and a foot and a half in breadth. In many places the stones have been thrown down by bushes growing out of the crevices, and in one place...
Sida 523 - 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 hard to believe that he sees before him the work of a race in whose epitaph, as written by historians, they are called ignorant of art, and said to have perished in the rudeness of savage life.
Sida 62 - ... whom she belonged, how long on her voyage, or what caused her destruction; her lost people to be traced only by some fancied resemblance in the construction of the vessel, and, perhaps, never to be known at all. The place where we sat, was it a citadel from which an unknown people had sounded the trumpet of war? or a temple for the worship of the God of peace? or did the inhabitants worship the idols made with their own hands, and offer sacrifices on the stones before them? All was mystery, dark,...
Sida 474 - An Emperor tramples where an Emperor knelt ; Kingdoms are shrunk to provinces, and chains Clank over sceptred cities ; nations melt From power's high pinnacle, when they have felt The sunshine for a while, and downward go Like lauwine loosen'd from the mountain's belt; Oh for one hour of blind old Dandolo ! Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe.