 | Literary Criticism - 1820
...can appreciate such a building as the Parthenon ; a building which, to use the words of Mr Dodwell, " is the most unrivalled triumph of sculpture and architecture that the world ever saw. The delight," he adds, " which it inspires on a superficial view, is heightened in proportion as it is attentively... | |
![The Children's magazine [afterw.] The Children's magazine and missionary ...](http://bks8.books.google.co.uk/books?id=Xl8EAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "The Children's magazine [afterw.] The Children's magazine and missionary ...") | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1856
...rather disappointed my expectations, and appeared less than its fame. The eye, however, soon became filled with the magnitude of its dimensions, the beauty...attentively surveyed. If we admire the whole of the gorgeous fabric, that admiration will be augmented by a minute investigation of all the ramified details.... | |
 | Charles Rockwell - History - 1842
...and the joy and pride of every Grecian heart. Its claims are unquestioned, to the high merit of being the most unrivalled triumph of sculpture and architecture that the world ever saw. Like the interior of St. Peter's, at Rome, and other splendid and finished specimens of the arts, the... | |
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At first sight it rather disappointed my expectations, and appeared less than its fame. The eye, however, soon became filled with the magnitude of its dimensions, the beauty of its materials, the exquisite perfection of its symmetry, and the harmonious... 