The Quarterly Review, Volume 14William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1815 - English literature |
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Page 515
... pediments , or triangular spaces over the portico , were adorned with groups of statues . Pausanias ( in ... pediment of the front , or entrance , represented the Birth of Minerva ; and that of the back the Contest of Minerva ...
... pediments , or triangular spaces over the portico , were adorned with groups of statues . Pausanias ( in ... pediment of the front , or entrance , represented the Birth of Minerva ; and that of the back the Contest of Minerva ...
Page 518
... pediment - and six , the places of which ( Report , 71 ) are not ascertained . Of the metopes in high - relief there ... pediments , and ten of the frieze , are stated not to be ascertained ; but we beg to observe , that - if there ...
... pediment - and six , the places of which ( Report , 71 ) are not ascertained . Of the metopes in high - relief there ... pediments , and ten of the frieze , are stated not to be ascertained ; but we beg to observe , that - if there ...
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... pediments , because 1. The exact extent of the mischief was probably not very accu- rately recollected by the Turks or Greeks , and they , or those who conversed with them , mistook the nature of the damage done . 2. The East pediment ...
... pediments , because 1. The exact extent of the mischief was probably not very accu- rately recollected by the Turks or Greeks , and they , or those who conversed with them , mistook the nature of the damage done . 2. The East pediment ...
Contents
A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of London | 39 |
Histoire de lAmbassade dans le Grand Duché de Varsovie en 1812 | 53 |
The Character of Moses established for Veracity as a Historian | 96 |
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