Pompeii PDF Download

Author: William Clarke
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267698837
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Excerpt from Pompeii: Its Past and Present State, Its Public and Private Buildings, Etc, Vol. 1 of 2: Compiled in Part From the Great Work of M. Mazois; The Museo Borbonico, the Publications of Sir W. Gell, and T. L. Donaldson, Esq. But Chiefly From the Ms. Journals and Drawings of William Clarke, Esq., Architect But time works constantly, as well as slowly and therefore, however antiquated the appearance, and however old-fashioned and changeless the habits of any place or people may seem to be, they are sure to present a very imperfect type of what they were even a single century ago. We have often wished, 1 various parts of England, that we could recall for a moment the ancient aspect of the country reclothe the downs of Wiltshire with their native sward, and see them studded with tumuli and Druid temples, free and boundless as they extended a thousand years ago, before the devastations of the plough and Inclosure Acts recall the leafy honours of Notting hamshire and Yorkshire, and repeople the neighbour hood of Sheffield and the Don with oaks instead of steam-engine and manufactory chimneys; or renew the decayed splendour of those magnificent monasteries whose ruins still strike the beholder with admiration. If the romantic fictions of the middle ages could be realized, which tell of mirrors framed with magic art to represent what had formerly passed, or was passing, in distant parts of the earth, the happy dis coverer might soon make his fortune in this age of exhibitions. What exhibition could be found more interesting than acamera-obscura, which should re fiect past incidents of historical or private interest, and recall, with the vividness and minuteness of life, at least the external characteristics of long-past ages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.