 the flood of fire in which the marble columns, the mountains, and the sea are all bathed and penetrated", and of "the violet hue which Hymettus assumes in the evening sky, in contrast to the glowing furnace of the rock of Lycabettus and the rosy pyramid...  A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography - الصفحة 243المحررون: - 1878عرض كامل - حول هذا الكتاب
 | Leonhard Schmitz - 1844
...Attica, 240, 241), hyperbolical as some of them may sound to western ears, are only just representations of the transparent clearness, the brilliant colouring...mountains, and the sea, are all bathed and penetrated by the illumination of an Athenian sunset15. But if Greek scenery is a standing witness to us of the readiness... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...representations under the open sky. The transparent clearness and brilliant colouring of the Athenian atmosphere, the flood of fire with which the marble columns, the...mountains, and the sea are all bathed and penetrated by an Athenian sunset, the violet hue which Hymettus assumes in the evening sky, in contrast to the glowing... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1872
...hues, which are painted upon the objects below, and render the landscapes indescribably glorious. Dean Stanley speaks of the transparent clearness, the brilliant colouring of an Athenian eky ; of the flood of fire with which the marble columns, the mountains, and the sea are all bathed... | |
 | Henry Fanshawe Tozer - 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 405
...of various countries have vied with one another in describing the glories of an Athenian sunset: — "the flood of fire with which the marble columns,...mountains, and the sea are all bathed and penetrated " — " the violet hue which Hymettus assumes in the evening sky, in contrast to the glowing furnace... | |
 | Richard Simpson (of Lower Clapton.) - 1875
...various countries have vied with one another in describing the glories of an Athenian sunset : — " the flood of fire with which the marble columns, the...mountains, and the sea are all bathed and penetrated," — " the violet hue which Hymettus assumes in the evening sky, in contrast to the glowing furnace... | |
 | Sir William Smith - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 617
...through most pellucid air." Modern travellers have not failed to notice the same peculiarity. Thus Dean Stanley speaks " of the transparent clearness, the...flood of fire, with which the marble columns, the mountain!, and the sea are all bathed and penetrated by an illumination of an Athenian sunset." —... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1882
...hues, which are painted upon the objects below, and render the landscapes indescribably glorious. Dean Stanley speaks of the transparent clearness, the brilliant...mountains, and the sea are all bathed and penetrated by the illumination of an Athenian sunset ; of the violet hue which Hymettus assumes, in contrast with... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1884
...dramatic representations under the open sky. The clearness and brilliant colourings of the atmosphere, the flood of fire with which the marble columns, the mountains, and the sea are bathed by an Athenian sunset, the violet hue which Hymettus assumes in the evening sky, in contrast... | |
 | 1888
...also the brilliant colouring which is so conspicuous in an Athenian sunset. Thus Dean Stanley speaks of " the flood of fire with which the marble columns,...mountains, and the sea are all bathed and penetrated ;" " the violet hue which Hymettus vassumes in the evening sky, in contrast to the glowing furnace... | |
 | Benjamin Bartis Comegys - 1893 - عدد الصفحات: 277
...modern. Nothing can exceed the transparent clearness, the brilliant coloring of an Athenian sky, or the flood of fire with which the marble columns, the...mountains and the sea, are all bathed and penetrated by the illumination of an Athenian sunset. And yet, to an American who knows what a peculiarly clear,'... | |
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