The number of temples is very great, mostly small and stuck like shrines in the angles of the streets, and under the shadow of the lofty houses. Their forms, however, are not ungraceful, and... The Hindoos - Página 212por Hindus - 1834Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Robert Smith - 1829 - 432 páginas
...windows, and very broad and overhanging eaves, supported by carved brackets. The number of temples is very great, mostly small and stuck like shrines...houses. Their forms, however, are not ungraceful, and they are many of them entirely covered over with beautiful and elaborate carvings of flowers, animals,... | |
| 1829 - 762 páginas
...the Lord Padre, the Himalaya mountains, the region in of temples ¡в тегу great, mostly (mall, and stuck like shrines in the angles of the streets,...houses. Their forms, however, are not ungraceful, and they are many of them entirely covered over with beautiful and elaborate carvings of flowers, animals,... | |
| Leonard Crocker Bowles - 1831 - 372 páginas
...oriel windows.and very broad and overhanging eaves, supported by carved brackets. The number of temples is very great, mostly small and stuck like shrines in the angles of the streets, and under the shadows of the lofty houses. Their forms, however, are not ungraceful, and they are many of them entirely... | |
| Robert Elliot - 1833 - 356 páginas
...windows, and very broad and overhanging eaves, supported by carved brackets. The number of temples is very great, mostly small, and stuck like shrines...streets, and under the shadow of the lofty houses. These forms, however, are not ungraceful, and they are many of them entirely covered over with beautiful... | |
| 1835 - 284 páginas
...oriel windows, and very broad overhanging eaves, supported by carved brackets. The number of temples is very great, mostly small, and stuck like shrines...ungraceful, and there are many of them entirely covered with beautiful and elaborate carvings of flowers, animals, and palmbranches, equalling, in minuteness... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - 1838 - 400 páginas
...windows, and very broad and over-hanging eaves, supported by carved brackets. The number of temples is very great, mostly small, and stuck like shrines...houses. Their forms, however, are not ungraceful, and they are many of them entirely covered over with beautiful and elaborate carving* of flowers, animals,... | |
| 1840 - 430 páginas
...windows, and very broad and over-hanging eaves, supported by carved brackets. The number of temples is very great, mostly small, and stuck like shrines...houses. Their forms, however, are not ungraceful, and many of them are entirely covered over with beautiful and elaborate carvings ofjflowers, animals, and... | |
| Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1844 - 336 páginas
...and very broad and overhanging eaves, supported by carved brackets. The number of temples is '',ry great, mostly small, and stuck like shrines in the...houses. Their forms, however, are not ungraceful, and they are many of them entirely covered over with beautiful and elaborate carvings of flowers, animals,... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 900 páginas
...as numerous Mahometan mosques. "The number of temples," says Bishop Heber, who visited the city, " is very great, mostly small, and stuck like shrines...richness the best specimens that I have seen of Gothic and Grecian architecture. The material of the buildings is a very good stone from Chunar ; but the... | |
| Reginald Heber - 1846 - 328 páginas
...windows, and very broad a» overhanging eaves, supported by carved brackets. The number of temples is very great, mostly small, and stuck like shrines...of the lofty houses. Their forms, however, are not ungrace ful, and they are many of them entirely covered over with beautiful and elaborate carvings... | |
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