 | English literature - 1842 - 592 pages
...trees, mill almost lifted out of the earth ; another hurled to the ground and hound down hy huge vii'W and creepers ; and one standing with its altar before it, in a grove of trees winch grew around it, seemingly to shade and shroud it as a sacied thing: in the solemn stillness of... | |
 | 1842 - 574 pages
...fragments, to fourteen monuments of the same character and appearance, some with more elegant designs, r.nd some in workmanship equal to the finest monuments...altar before it, in a grove of trees which grew around it, seemingly to shade and shroud it as a sacred thing : in the solemn stillness of the woods, it seemed... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1841 - 578 pages
...among half-buried fragments, to fourteen monuments of the same character and appearance, some with more elegant designs, and some in workmanship, equal to...altar before it, in a grove of trees which grew around it, seemingly to shade and shroud it as a sacred thing ; in the solemn stillness of the woods, it seemed... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1841 - 600 pages
...among half-buried fragments, to fourteen monuments of the same character and appearance, some with more elegant designs, and some in workmanship, equal to...altar before it, in a grove of trees which grew around it, seemingly to shade and shroud it as a sacred thing ; in the solemn stillness of the woods, it seemed... | |
 | 1841 - 470 pages
...among half-buried fragments, to fourteen monuments of the same character and appearance, some with more elegant designs, and some in workmanship equal to...altar before it, in a grove of trees which grew around it, seemingly to shade and shroud it as a sacred thing ; in the solemn stillness of the woods, it seemed... | |
 | John L. Stephens - Central America - 1841 - 508 pages
...among half-buried fragments, to fourteen monuments of the same character and appearance, some with more elegant designs, and some in workmanship equal to...altar before it, in a grove of trees which grew around it, seemingly to shade and shroud it as a sacred thing ; in the solemn stillness of the woods, it seemed... | |
 | 1841 - 404 pages
...character and appearance, some with more elegant designs, and some in workmanSee Notices. VOL. I.—35 ship equal to the finest monuments of the Egyptians; one...altar before it, in a grove of trees which grew around it, seemingly to shade and shroud it as a sacred thing; in the solemn stillness of the woods, it seemed... | |
 | John L. Stephens - Central America - 1841 - 534 pages
...the finest monuments of the Egyptians ; one displaced from its pedestal by enormous roots ; an, other locked in the close embrace of branches of trees,...altar before it, in a grove of trees which grew around it, seemingly to shade and shroud it as a sacred thing ; in the solemn stillness of the woods, it seemed... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1842 - 660 pages
...among halfburied fragments, to fourteen monuments of the same character and appearance ; some with more elegant designs, and some in workmanship equal to...altar before it, in a grove of trees which grew around it, seemingly to shade and shroud it as a sacred thing ; in the solemn stillness of the woods, it seemed... | |
 | 1842 - 1008 pages
...among half-buried fragments, to fourteen monuments of the same character and appearance, some with more elegant designs, and some in workmanship equal to...altar before it, in a grove of trees which grew around it, seemingly to shade and shroud it as a sacred thing ; in the solemn stillness of the •woods, it... | |
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Egyptians ; one displaced from its pedestal by enormous roots ; another locked in the close embrace of branches of trees, and almost lifted out of the earth ; another hurled to the ground, and bound down by huge vines and creepers; and one standing, with... 
