 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1886 - 832 sidor
...Civ., torn, ii., pp. irS-83, give the tradition of the Dwarf, which gives this temple one of its mines. 'The construction of these ornaments is not less peculiar...tablets or single stones, each representing separately ami by itself an entire subject; but every ornament or combination is made up of separate stones, on... | |
 | Henry A. Case - 1911 - 444 sidor
...of leopards, and compositions of leaves and flowers, and the ornaments generally known as grecques. The ornaments which succeed each other, are all different;...an extraordinary mass of richness and complexity, rendering an effect grand and at the same time curious. Besides the construction of these ornaments... | |
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The ornaments, which succeed each other, are all different ; the whole form an extraordinary mass of richness and complexity, and the effect is both grand and curious. And the construction of these ornaments is not less peculiar and striking than the... 
