The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 149A. Constable, 1879 |
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Página 142
... temple ' of divine and human wisdom ! Far in the mountains of Calabria , near the little town of Stilo , was born , September 5 , 1568 , Giovan Domenico , son of Geronimo and Catarinella Campanella . Tasso's hackneyed verse- ' La terra ...
... temple ' of divine and human wisdom ! Far in the mountains of Calabria , near the little town of Stilo , was born , September 5 , 1568 , Giovan Domenico , son of Geronimo and Catarinella Campanella . Tasso's hackneyed verse- ' La terra ...
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... temple , the most imposing edifice in the Olympian plain , was the colossal statue in gold and ivory , executed by Pheidias , which to successive generations of worshippers served as a symbol of the perpetual presence at Olympia of the ...
... temple , the most imposing edifice in the Olympian plain , was the colossal statue in gold and ivory , executed by Pheidias , which to successive generations of worshippers served as a symbol of the perpetual presence at Olympia of the ...
Página 214
... temple of Zeus , with its chryselephantine statue and other sculptures , occupies , as might be expected , the foremost place in the notice of Olympian admiranda . After describing these at great length , Pausanias passes on to the temple ...
... temple of Zeus , with its chryselephantine statue and other sculptures , occupies , as might be expected , the foremost place in the notice of Olympian admiranda . After describing these at great length , Pausanias passes on to the temple ...
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... temples and other edifices at Olympia , Pausanias next notices the altars . One of these , dedicated to Zeus , was on a colossal scale . It consisted , of a lower platform , of which the circumference at the base was 125 feet , and ...
... temples and other edifices at Olympia , Pausanias next notices the altars . One of these , dedicated to Zeus , was on a colossal scale . It consisted , of a lower platform , of which the circumference at the base was 125 feet , and ...
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... temple . Here has been traced a massive wall , the late date of which is proved by the character of its masonry , in which , as in the so- called wall of Valerian at Athens , many blocks and fragments of ancient buildings and sculpture ...
... temple . Here has been traced a massive wall , the late date of which is proved by the character of its masonry , in which , as in the so- called wall of Valerian at Athens , many blocks and fragments of ancient buildings and sculpture ...
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