The .French have uncovered all the pedestal of this statue, and all the cumbent or leonine parts of the figure ; these were before entirely concealed by sand. Instead, however, of answering the expectations raised concerning the work upon which it was... The Family Library (Harper). - Page 1191842Full view - About this book
| Edward Daniel Clarke - 1817 - 522 pages
...cumbent or leonine parts of the figure : these were before entirely concealed by sand. Instead, however, of answering the expectations raised concerning the...be a wretched substructure of brick-work, and small pieces of stone, put together like the most insignificant piece of modern masonry, and wholly out of... | |
| Edward Daniel Clarke - 1817 - 528 pages
...cumbent or leonine parts of the figure : these were before entirely concealed by sand. Instead, however, of answering the expectations raised concerning the...the pedestal proves to be a wretched substructure of brick -work, and small pieces of stone, put together like the most insignificant piece of modern masonry,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 600 pages
...or leonine parts of the figure ; these were before entirely concealed by Ťan< I. Instead, however, of answering the expectations raised concerning the...be a wretched substructure of brick-work, and small pieces of stone, put together like the most insignificant piece of modern masonry, and wholly out of... | |
| 1818 - 598 pages
...cumbent or leonine parts of the figure ; these were before entirely concealed by sand. Instead, however, of answering the expectations raised concerning the...be a wretched substructure of brick-work, and small pieces of stone, put together like the most insignificant piece of modern masonry, and wholly out of... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 622 pages
...cumbeni.or leonine parts of the figure ; these were before entirely concealed by sand. Instead, however, of answering the expectations raised concerning the...the pedestal proves to be a wretched substructure of brick-W9rk, and small pieces of stone, put together like the most insignificant piece of modern masonry,... | |
| 1819 - 630 pages
...cumbent or leonine parts of the figure ; these were before entirely concealed by sand. Instead, however, of answering the expectations raised concerning the...be a wretched substructure of brick-work, and small pieces of stone, put together like the most insignificant piece of modern masonry, and wholly out of... | |
| Michael Russell - 1831 - 514 pages
...states, without the slightest hesitation, that the academicians who followed the camp of Bonaparte laid open the whole pedestal of this statue, as well...the pedestal proves to be a wretched substructure of brick- work and small fragments of stone, put together like the most insignificant piece of modern... | |
| Michael Russell - 1831 - 536 pages
...states, without the slightest hesitation, that the academicians who followed the camp of Bonaparte laid open the whole pedestal of this statue, as well...the pedestal proves to be a wretched substructure of brick- work and small fragments of stone, put together like the most insignificant piece of modern... | |
| George Nugent Grenville Baron Nugent, George Nugent- Grenville (baron Nugent.) - 1846 - 460 pages
...by Napoleon, and that, instead of answering the expectations they had formed, the pedestal " proved to be a wretched substructure of brickwork and small...like the most insignificant piece of modern masonry." Of the French savans, M. Denon and M. Gobert, whose valuable works contain all that the labours of... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 468 pages
...cumbent or leonine parts of the figure ; these were before entirely concealed by sand. Instead, -however, of answering the expectations raised concerning the...the pedestal proves to be a wretched substructure of brick- work and small pieces of stone put together, like the most insignificant piece of modern masonry,... | |
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