 | Henry Fielding - 1755 - 260 páginas
...convents, churches, are large, and all built with white ftonf, they look very beautiful at a diftance, but as you approach nearer, and find them to want every kind of ornament, all idea of beauty vanifhes at once. While I was furveying the profped of this city, which bears fo little refemblance... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 400 páginas
...all seem to have but one foundation. .As the houses, convents, churches, ^c. are large, and all built with white stone, they look very beautiful at a distance;...to want every kind of ornament, all idea of beauty varnishes at once. While I was surveying the pros' pect of this city, which bears so little resemblance... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1882 - 448 páginas
...all seem to have but one foundation. As the houses, convents, churches, &c., are large, and all built with white stone, they look very beautiful at a distance...seen, a reflection occurred to me, that if a man was suddenly to be removed from Palmyra hither, and should take a view of no other city, in how glorious... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1882 - 442 páginas
...all seem to have but one foundation. As the houses, convents, churches, &c., are large, and all built with white stone, they look very beautiful at a distance...seen, a reflection occurred to me, that if a man was suddenly to be removed from Palmyra hither, and should take a view of no other city, in how glorious... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1892 - 320 páginas
...all seem to have but one foundation. As the houses, convents, churches, &c. are large, and all built with white stone, they look very beautiful at a distance...seen, a reflection occurred to me, that if a man was suddenly to be removed from Palmyra hither, and should take a view of no other city, in how glorious... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1893 - 320 páginas
...all seem to have but one foundation. As the houses, convents, churches, &c., are large, and all built with white stone, they look very beautiful at a distance...resemblance to any other that I have ever seen, a reflexion occurred to me that, if a man was suddenly to be removed from Palmyra hither, and should... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1904 - 362 páginas
...younger travellers of 1760. He says : "As the houses, convents, churches, etc., are large, and all built with white stone, they look very beautiful at a distance...seen, a reflection occurred to me that, if a man was suddenly to be removed from Palmyra hither, and should take a view of no other city, in how glorious... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1902 - 234 páginas
...large, and all built with white sl;one, they look very beautiful at a distance ; but as you ap^ proach nearer, and find them to want every kind of ornament,...beauty vanishes at once. While I was surveying the prospectof this city, which bears so little resemblance to any other that I have ever seen, a reflection... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1893 - 312 páginas
...all seem to have but one foundation. As die houses, convents, churches, &c., are large, and all built with white stone, they look very beautiful at a distance...but as you approach nearer, and find them to want eveiy kind of ornament, all idea of beauty vanishes at once. While I was surveying the prospect of... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1903 - 514 páginas
...all seem to have but one foundation. As the houses, convents, churches, &c. are large, and all built with white stone, they look very beautiful at a distance...seen, a reflection occurred to me, that if a man was suddenly to be removed from Palmyra hither, and should take a view of no other city, in how glorious... | |
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As the houses, convents, churches, &c. are large, and all built with white stone, they look very beautiful at a distance ; but as you approach nearer, and find them to want every kind of ornament, all idea of beauty vanishes at once. 
