 | Robert Jameson - 1820 - 1172 páginas
...limestone. This is principally owing to veins of extraneous substances which intersect the Pentelican quarries, and which appear more or less in all the works executed in this kind of stone. 3. Greek White Marble, — Marmo Greco of Italian artists. Its colour is snow-white ; is fine... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - 1825 - 342 páginas
...lime-stone. This is principally owing to veins of extraneous substances which intersect the Pentelic quarries, and which appear more or less in 'all the works executed in this kind of stone. The Parian marble has somewhat of a waxy appearance when polished ; it hardens by exposure to... | |
 | Thomas Dudley Fosbroke - 1825 - 508 páginas
...limestone. This is principally owing to veins of extraneous substances, which intersect the Pentelican quarries, and which appear more or less in all the works executed in that kind of marble. The fracture of Pentelican marble is sometimes splintery, and partakes of the... | |
 | Horace - 1830 - 1104 páginas
...to veins of extraneous substances which intersect the Pentelican quarries, and which appear more or or less in all the works executed in this kind of marble." (Clarke's Trarclt. rol. 6. p. 134. E»g. Ed.) 7. GnUa pntcrritas. " Her winning boldness." Mitscherlich... | |
 | Horace - 1840 - 344 páginas
...limestone. This is principally owing to veins of extraneous substances which intersect the Pentelican quarries, and which appear more or less in all the works executed in this kind of marble." ( Clarke's Traceis, wf. 6. p. 134. Eng. Ed.) 8 — 12. 8. Et vultus nimium lubricus aspin. "And her... | |
 | Charles Anthon - 1841 - 664 páginas
...limestone. This is principally owing to veins of extraneous substances which intersect the Pentelican quarries, and which appear more or less in all the...consequently, it has a tendency to exfoliate, like cipuKno, by spontaneous decomposition. — We descended into the quarry, whence not a single block... | |
 | Joseph Gwilt - 1842 - 1114 páginas
...is considered to be principally owing to veins of extraneous substances which intersect the Pentelic quarries, and which appear more or less in all the works executed in this kind of stone. The Parian marble has a waxy appearance when polished ; it hardens by exposure to the air, and... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1846 - 452 páginas
...limestone. This is principally owing to veins of extraneous substances which intersect the Pentelican quarries, and which appear more or less in all the works executed in this kind of marble. "— (Clark's Travels, vol. vi. p. 134, Eng. ed.) -12. 8. £t &u#uf nitmum lubriciu odspioi, " And... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1846 - 452 páginas
...limestone. This is principally owing to veins of extraneous substances which intersect the Pentelican quarries, and which appear more or less in all the works executed in this kind of marble."— ( Clark's Travels, vol. vi. p. 134, Eng. ed.) 8 — 12. 8. Et еыйш nhniwn lubricut adspici, "And... | |
 | Horace - 1855 - 718 páginas
...limestone. This is principally owing to veins of extraneous substances which intersect the Penteliian quarries, and which appear more or less in all the works executed in this kind of marble." ( Clarke't Travels, vol. vi. p. 134.) 7. Grata protcrvitai. Rendered by Francis "her sweet coquetting."... | |
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... softness of wax, the mild lustre even of their original polish, those which were finished in Pentelican marble have been decomposed, and sometimes exhibit a surface as earthy and as rude as common limestone. This is principally owing to veins of extraneous... 
