Travelling Sketches : in the North of Italy, the Tyrol, and on the Rhine.- (Heath's picturesque annual ; 1832)
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Autor:
Leitch, Ritchie / Leitch Ritchie
Ort:
London
Verlag:
Longman [u.a.]
Umfang:
IV, 256 S. : Ill.
Sprache:
Englisch
Anmerkungen:
mit 26 Stahlstichen
Schlagwort:
g.Oberitalien;f.Reisebericht ; <br>g.Tirol;f.Reisebericht
Signatur:
II 185.432
Intern-ID:
240277
, and all avenues meander like sheep-walks. Why so?—or, rather, why do they not extend their principle to other works of art and taste ? Should not houses , by the same rule, imitate caverns? The bare slate rock, of which we are discoursing, was turned, in our opinion, to the very best purpose of which it was capable ; and, had it even been converted into a gardener's shop, with pyramidal ranges of flower-pots prettily disposed all round, as we see them in the suburbs of London, there would have