 | William Guthrie - 1843 - 848 pages
...columns below, forming an ample pediment ; some of these, above 60 feet in thickness from the base to the point, formed, by the sloping of the hill on each side, almost in the shape of those used in architecture." The most elevated part of the island is 214 feet above... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1846 - 284 pages
...exquisite in beauty, than to hin eye the reality justifies. " Compared to this (it IKI- been said) what are the cathedrals or the palaces built by men ? — mere models or plaything's ; — imitative or diminutive as his works will always he when compared with those of nature."... | |
 | Caves - 1847 - 220 pages
...supported by ranges of natural pillars, mostly above fifty feet high, standing in natural colonnades. Compared to this, what are the cathedrals, or the palaces, built by man ? mere models or playthings, imitations as diminutive, as his works will always be, when compared... | |
 | Sylvan (pseud.) - 1848 - 154 pages
...temple of nature, and own, with a religious enthusiasm, the greatness of the Almighty architect. " Compared to this, what are the cathedrals or the palaces built by man? Mere models or playthings:—imitations as diminutive as his works will always be when compared... | |
 | 1850 - 836 pages
...foundations.' He thus eloquently records his first ¡impressions of the stupendous structures :— ' Compared to this, what are the cathedrals or the palaces built by men ? mere models or playthings, imitations as diminutive as his works will always be, when compared to tbost t'f Nature... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1852 - 392 pages
...exquisite in beauty, than to his eye the reality justifies. " Compared to this (it has been said), what are the cathedrals or the palaces built by men?— mere models or playthings;— imitative or diminutive as his works will always be when compared with those of nature."... | |
 | Sir Charles Noon Talfourd - 1852 - 396 pages
...exquisite in beauty, than to his eye the reality justifies. " Compared to this (it has been said), what are the cathedrals or the palaces built by men ?— mere models or playthings ;— imitative or diminutive as his works will always be when compared with those of nature."... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1855 - 428 pages
...Have one eternal law — one endless hymn, Which they shall sing for ever and for ever ! " 135 NOTE. "Compared to this, what are the cathedrals or the palaces built by man? — mere models or playthings! — imitations as diminutive as his works will always be when compared... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1859 - 432 pages
...1774 did the world know anything of Staffa, of which Sir Joseph Banks, in a burst of enthusiasm, says, 'compared to this, what are the cathedrals or the palaces built by men ? — mere models or playthings, imitations as diminutive as his works will always be when compared to those of nature.'... | |
 | John Sheppard - 1859 - 304 pages
...confined to a few individuals in the neighbourhood, previously to his visit in 1772. He observes, — " Compared to this, what are the cathedrals, or the palaces, built by man 1 — The mind can hardly form an idea more imposing than such a space supported on each side by... | |
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Compared to this what are the cathedrals or the palaces built by men! mere models or playthings, imitations as diminutive as his works will always be when compared to those of nature. 
