Hellas, her monuments and scenery; by Thomas Chase, M.A.
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781425519476
Subjects: American history; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; History / United States / General; United States - General
First sentence: I HAD seen the exiled sculptures of the Parthenon in London, the Venus of Melos at the Louvre, - strayed among the solemn ruins and through the opulent galleries of Rome, - been admitted, as it were, to the very households of the ancients, in the disentombed cities of Campania, and beheld on their walls the reflected glories of Grecian painting, beautiful even in its decline, - gazed, too, at Paestum, in that silent plain by the side of the sea, on a well-nigh perfect image of the Doric temple, simple and elegant, matchless in harmony and repose.