 | Charles Leonard Irby, James Mangles, John Barker - 1823 - 634 페이지
...extraordinary hues, whose summits present us with nature in her most savage and romantic form, whilst their bases are worked out in all the symmetry and...of corridors adhering to the perpendicular surface. The short notice of Petra, by Pliny, is as follows : " the Nabataei inhabit a city called Petra, in... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1824 - 608 페이지
...the singular effect of rocks tinted with the most extraordinary hues, whose summits present us with nature in her most savage and romantic form, while...corridors adhering to the perpendicular surface.' pp. 414 — 4£3. There can be no doubt that this extraordinary spot is, ai Burckhardt supposed, the... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 552 페이지
...the singular effect of rocks tinted with the most extraordinary hues, whose summits present us with nature in her most savage and romantic form, while...corridors adhering to the perpendicular surface." Irby and Alungle's Trav. p. 414-423. Eel. Uev. for Jan. 1824. enough to pass through, admits a stranger... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 578 페이지
...covered the sides of their mountains " with an endless variety of excavated tombs and private dwellings, worked out in all the symmetry and regularity of art,...corridors, adhering to the perpendicular surface." On the inacessible cliff's which, in some places, rise to the height of seven hundred feet, and the... | |
 | 1828 - 420 페이지
...extraordinary hues, whose summits present us with nature in her most savage and romantic form, whilst their bases are worked out in all the symmetry and...of corridors adhering to the perpendicular surface. The short notice of Petra by Pliny is as follows : " The Nabataei inhabit a city called Petra, in a... | |
 | 1828 - 406 페이지
...extraordinary hues, whose summits present us with nature in her most savage and romantic form, whilst their bases are worked out in all the symmetry and...of corridors adhering to the perpendicular surface. The short notice of Petra by Pliny is as follows : " The Nabataei inhabit a city called Petra, in a... | |
 | 1833 - 804 페이지
...have ever beheld ; and we must despair of giving the reader an idea of the singular eflect of rorks tinted with the most extraordinary hues, whose summits...corridors adhering to the perpendicular surface." Irby and Mangles. — ED. On our return I stopped a few hours at Eldjy. The town is surrounded with... | |
 | Andrew Crichton - 1834 - 432 페이지
...idea of the singular effect of rocks tinted •with the most extraordinary hues, whose summits present nature in her most savage and romantic form ; while...corridors, adhering to the perpendicular surface." The inner and wider extremity of the circuitous defile by which the city is approached is sculptured... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 614 페이지
...on both sides, till it presented at last a continued street of tombs. The base of the cliffs wrought out in all the symmetry and regularity of art, with colonnades, and pedestals, and ranges of corridors adhering to the perpendicular surface ; flights of steps chiselled... | |
 | Peter Graham (topographical writer.) - 1836 - 292 페이지
...an infinite variety of tombs, both Arabian and Roman, on either side. This pass conducts (in a N._W. direction) to the theatre ; and here, the ruins of...supposed, the Petra of Pliny and Strabo, the capital of Nabatael ; notwithstanding that the Greek church has transferred the name of Battra, with its metropolitan... | |
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... most extraordinary hues, whose summits present us with nature in her most savage and romantic form, whilst their bases are worked out in all the symmetry and regularity of art with colonnades and pediments, and ranges of corridors adhering to the... 
