 ... much striking beauty, so distinct a type, so vast a volume of history, so great a pageant of immortal memories. There is, in fact, no building on earth which can sustain the burden of such greatness, and so the first visit to the Acropolis is and...  The Denstonian - Page 65by Denstone St. Chad's coll - 1877Full view - About this book
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1897 - 1172 pages
...painstaking accuracy that would be ridiculous were it any other building than the Parthenon : but « all the Old World's culture culminated in Greece, all Greece in Athens, all Athens in its Acropolis, all the Acropolis in the Parthenon.* Racked by earthquake and torn by explosion, bombarded... | |
 | John Pentland Mahaffy - 1876 - 382 pages
...and so the first visit to the Acropolis is and must be disappointing. When the traveller reflects how all the Old World's culture culminated in Greece — all Greece in Athens — all Athens in its Acropolis — all the Acropolis in the Parthenon — so much crowds upon the mind confusedly that... | |
 | John Pentland Mahaffy - 1876 - 378 pages
...and so the first visit to the Acropolis is and must be disappointing. When the traveller reflects how all the Old World's culture culminated in Greece — all Greece in Athens — all Athens in its Acropolis — all the Acropolis in the Parthenon — so much crowds upon the mind confusedly that... | |
 | Francis Whiting Halsey - 1914 - 228 pages
...and so the first visit to the Acropolis is and must be disappointing. When the traveler reflects how all the Old World's culture culminated in Greece — all Greece in Athens — all Athens in its Acropolis — all the Acropolis in the Parthenon — so much crowds upon the mind confusedly that... | |
 | John Elder - 1960 - 248 pages
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 | 1964 - 908 pages
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 | Jack Finegan - 1981 - 250 pages
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