 | 1836 - Počet stránok 282
...the number that have in their turn inhabited these islands. The mysterious monument of Stonehenge f, standing remote and alone upon a bare and boundless...ages as it is with the uses of the present, carries yon back, beyond all historical records, into the obscurity of a wholly unknown period. Perhaps thu... | |
 | 1855 - Počet stránok 506
...some departed race of giants. This is the splendid sepulehre, where Science, like the Roman Tarpela, lies buried under the weight of gold that rewarded...moved such immense masses of rock ? By what fatality la it, that, in every part of the globe, the most durable impressions that have been made upon its... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - Počet stránok 752
...mounment of Stonelienge, standing remote and alone upon a hare and boundless heath, as mnch uncounected with the events of past ages as it is with the uses of the present, carries you hack, beyond all historical records, into the obscurity of a wholly unknown period. Perhaps the Draids... | |
 | Algernon Graves - 1905 - Počet stránok 460
...laid, etc." — Wordsworth. 581 Stonehenge. " The mysterious monument of Stonehenge, standing remote on a bare and boundless heath, as much unconnected with...beyond all historical records into the obscurity of a totally unknown period." (The late.) 1837. 193 Arundel mill and castle. CONSTABLE, L. B Painter. 1... | |
 | Robert Rosenblum - 1970 - Počet stránok 346
...makes these Romantic sensations explicit: "The mysterious monument of Stonehenge, standing remote on a bare and boundless heath, as much unconnected with...beyond all historical records into the obscurity of a totally unknown period."143 Two years later, this fascination with origins could lead into such remarkable... | |
 | Victor Chan, University of Alberta. Department of Art and Design - 1995 - Počet stránok 164
...described the work in the Academy catalogue: "The mysterious monument of Stonehenge standing remote on a bare and boundless heath, as much unconnected with...the present, carries you back beyond all historical record into the obscurity of a totally unknown period." Constable paid his only recorded visit to Stonehenge... | |
 | John E. Thornes, John Constable - 1999 - Počet stránok 292
...Constable's notes accompanying Stonehenge state: The mysterious monument of Stonehenge, standing remote on a bare and boundless heath, as much unconnected with...beyond all historical records into the obscurity of a totally unknown period. 46 See WGK Middleton,^ History of the Theories of Rain (London: Oldbourne History... | |
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The mysterious monument of Stonehenge, standing remote and alone upon a bare and boundless heath, as much unconnected with the events of past ages, as it is with the uses of the present, carries you back beyond all historical records into the obscurity... 