 | Vivant Denon - 1803 - 450 pagina’s
...diftinguifhable, renders them almoft tranfparent, and the blue tint of the fky caufes their angles to appear fharp and well defined, though they have been rounded by the decay of years. (See Plate VII. Fig. 1, 2, and 3.) About nine o'clock the noife of cannon announced to us the approach... | |
 | Dominique Vivant baron Denon - 1803 - 450 pagina’s
...renders them almoft tranfparent, and the blue tint of the iky caufes their angles to appear fliarp and well defined, though they have been rounded by the decay of years. (See Plate VII. Fig. l, 2, and 3.) About, nine o'clock the noife of cannon announced to us the approach... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1827 - 384 pagina’s
...vast distance at which the pyramids are distinguishable, gives them an " almost transparent hue ;" and the blue tint of the sky causes their angles to...though they have been rounded by the decay of years. As the traveller draws nearer Cairo, he sees numerous minarets surrounding Mount Mokattam, and proceeding... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - 1828 - 528 pagina’s
...fine transparent hue which they derive from the immense volume of air wherewith they are surrounded : this is a peculiarity belonging to these monuments,...position we saw numerous minarets, surrounding Mount Mocatam, and proceeding from the gardens on the banks of the Nile, whilst Old Cairo, Bulac, and Roda,... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1846 - 764 pagina’s
...vast distance at which they are distinguishable renders them al- ' most transparent and the blue lint of the sky causes their angles to appear sharp and...though they have been rounded by the decay of years. When I arrived at head-quarters at Cairo, I learnt that the commander in chief was ; then setting out... | |
 | Renzo Dubbini - 2002 - 268 pagina’s
...that fine transparent hue which they derive from the immense volume of air that surrounds them. . . . The vast distance at which they are distinguishable,...though they have been rounded by the decay of years." Denon also had important things to say about the distance between the various planes of his drawings,... | |
 | Renzo Dubbini - 2002 - 268 pagina’s
...vast distance at which they are distinguishable, renders them almost transparent, and the blue tmt of the sky causes their angles to appear sharp and...though they have been rounded by the decay of years." Denon also had important things to say about the distance between the various planes of his drawings,... | |
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... the vast distance at which they are distinguishable, renders them almost transparent, and the blue tint of the sky causes their angles to appear sharp and well defined, though they have been rounded by the decay of years. 