 | Criticism - 1865 - 836 pages
...and Seville, is still a witness of their power in Spain, and of their elegant genius. Kuskin says, " there are but two strong conquerors of the forgetfulness of men, Poetry and Architecture — the day is coming when we shall confess that we have learned more of Greece out of the crumbled... | |
 | Antiquities - 1850 - 418 pages
...the memory, " How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears !...stones left one upon another ! The ambition of the old Babel-builders was well directed for this world. There are but two strong conquerors of the forgetfulness... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - Archaeology - 1851 - 776 pages
...to penetrate. " How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears !...stones left one upon another ! The ambition of the old Babel-builders was well directed for this world. There are but two strong conquerors of the forgetfulness... | |
 | Ruins - 1852 - 464 pages
...the memory, " How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears !...stones left one upon another ! The ambition of the old Babel-builders was well directed for this world. There are but two strong conquerors of the forgetfulness... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1852 - 482 pages
...living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears ! How ' bi 2 iffirtin t — Herodotus, i. 136. many pages of doubtful record might we not often spare for a few stones left one upon another!" The spirit of oriental architecture is in contrast to that of the western world. It rejoices in colour... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 504 pages
...remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears !...stones left one upon another ? The ambition of the old Babel-builders was well directed for this world. There are but two strong conquerors of the forgetfulness... | |
 | John Ruskin - Architecture - 1859 - 240 pages
...living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears ! bow many pages of doubtful record might we no^ often spare, for A few stones left one upon another ! The ambition of the old Baoel builders was well directed for this world : there are but two strong conquerors of the forgetfulness... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1862 - 178 pages
...remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears !...but two strong conquerors of the forgetfulness of man, Poetry and Architecture, and the latter in some sort includes the former, and is mightier in its... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - America - 1862 - 532 pages
...imagery, compared to that 1 Prescott's Conquest of Mexico, B. \. ch. iv. VOL. II. E which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears !...often spare, for a few stones left one upon another I"1 There is historical evidence that some of the ruined cities were in occupation by the native population... | |
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How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears !— how many pages of doubtful record might we not often spare, for a few stones left one upon another ! The .ambition... 
