Image: Nineveh and Persepolis- an historical sketch of ancient Assyria and Persia, with an account of the recent researches in those countries (1850) (14742489156)

Description: Identifier: ninevehpersepoli00vaux (find matches) Title: Nineveh and Persepolis: an historical sketch of ancient Assyria and Persia, with an account of the recent researches in those countries Year: 1850 (1850s) Authors: Vaux, W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright), 1818-1885 Subjects: Publisher: London : A. Hall, Virtue & co. Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: between Shiraz andIsfahan, they have been visited and described by nearly everytraveller who has passed through Persia ; and though, even now,it is not possible to assign its own builder to every edifice, latediscoveiies have enabled us to identify Darius Hvstaspes, andXerxes as the chief builders of tbem. The obscure tradition inthe mouths of the modern inhabitants ascribes them to kingJemshid, and serves to show that, while the modern inhabitantsreally know but little of their real history, they arc willing toassign to them the most venerable antiquity. The approach to Persepolis, as the traveller crosses the vastplain of Merdusht, is described by eveiy one who has had thegood fortune to visit it, as magnificent in the extreme. Theclearest and most spirited, that we have met with, is that of theauthor of Piough Notes of a Rough Ride from the East. We were in our saddles, says he, at the first streak of day. Text Appearing After Image: . n m-1 CHAP. IX.) PERSEPOLIS. 287 and ere the suns rays had gilded the few surviving capitals ofChehel Minar, its tall white columns stood before us in nakedmajesty at the foot of the bare and dreary ridge of mountainswhich bounds the wide alluvial plain of Merdusht. Xo otherwork of man was visible, except a few tents of wandering Eelyauts—specks in the distant horizon. There stood, in stately solitude,the pride of ages, which appear almost fabulous from their dis-tance ; of empires nearer, by five centuries, to the time of Noah,than to ours, and of which no trace Iemains; but here are suffi-cient to verify the naiTations of their splendid existence, and toshow that, in some arts, and those among the noblest, ourvaunted march of intellect is but an idle boast; indeed, were itnot for the models we imitate—the more servilely the better—this march would most certainly be a countermarch. As it is,where is the modem city which will have such a glorious wreck astliis after its epheme Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Nineveh and Persepolis- an historical sketch of ancient Assyria and Persia, with an account of the recent researches in those countries (1850) (14742489156)
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