10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CARYATIDEAN»
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caryatidean in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Cruel fortune: in three volumes
... busily engaged in manufacturing dirt-pies in the gutter which runs down the
middle of the Court, a foray being occasionally made on them by one or other of
the tatterdemalion, slatternly, slipshod women who lounge in Caryatidean
attitudes ...
Ellen Creathorne Clayton, 1865
2
The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society: JRGS
It was composed of a series of long quarry-stones, on the edges of which
Caryatidean pillars (representing Phaya Nakh, or the king of the subterranean
serpents) supported another slab, with an excavation all along its rim, to receive
in it a ...
Royal Geographical Society, 1865
3
Orient Sunbeams: Or, From the Porte to the Pyramids, by Way ...
... purple veils and embroidered fine linen, carved pillars and pomegranates,
molten seas and caryatidean oxen, flowers of lilies and baths of beauty, lavers,
candlesticks, and basins of gold, courts of brass, and the chapiters, basins,
wreaths, ...
Samuel Sullivan Cox, 1882
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The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society
It was composed of a series of long quarry-stones, on the edges of which
Caryatidean pillars (representing Phaya Nakh, or the king of the subterranean
serpents) supported another slab, with an excavation all along its rim, to receive
in it a ...
Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), 1865
5
The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London
It was composed of a series of long quarry-stones, on the edges of which
Caryatidean pillars (representing Pliaya Nakh, or the king of the subterranean
serpents) supported another slab, with an excavation all along its rim, to receive
in it a ...
... of some inward hurt crying for abrasion; topling entablatures; architraves that
ache; friezes of sculptured freaks ; cornices that shriek out to gravity for a center
and occasional caryatidean creatures that would shame a gargoyle into dignity.
7
Treatises on architecture, building, masonry, joinery, and ...
The Caryatidean frontispiece, also, for more it cannot be called, is full of
architectural beauties, though it is most injudiciously collocated. The theatres of
the Greeks, it has been already intimated, present but little to interest in the view
we are ...
Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc, 1844
8
The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, Dictionary of Arts, ...
Greek columnar archiwere eVer executed,—arranged in the finest proportion,
and with the most exquisite details and enrichments. The Caryatidean
frontispiece, also, for more it cannot be called, is full of architectural beauties,
though it is most ...
Thomas Stewart Traill, 1853
9
The Encyclopædia Britannica, or, Dictionary of arts, ...
The Caryatidean frontispiece, also, for more it cannot be called, is full of
architectural beauties, though it is most injudiciously collocated. The theatres of
the Greeks, it has been already intimated, present but little to interest in the view
we are ...
10
The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Or Dictionary of Arts, ...
The Caryatidean frontispiece, also, for more it cannot be called, is full of
architectural beauties, though it is most injudiciously collocated. The theatres of
the Greeks, it has been already intimated, present but little to interest in the view
we are ...
