 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1838 - 400 страници
...the best specimens that I have seen of Gothic or Grecian architecture. The material of the building is a very good stone from Chunar; but the Hindoos here seem fond of painting them a deep-red colour, and, indeed, of covering the more conspicuous parts of their houses with paintings,... | |
 | 1840 - 430 страници
...minuteness and richness the best specimens that I have seen of Gothic or Grecian architecture. The material of the buildings is a very good stone, from Chunar, but the Hindus here seem fond of painting them a deep red colour, and, indeed, of covering the more conspicuous... | |
 | 1841 - 536 страници
...very fat, indolent, and inoffensive. 37 of the houses in this city are adorned with gaudy paintings of flower-pots, men, women, bulls, elephants, gods,...many-weaponed varieties. The sacred bulls devoted to Siva (says this author), of every age, tame and familiär as mastiffs, walk lazily up and down these narrow... | |
 | Reginald Heber - 1844 - 332 страници
...minuteness and richness the best specimens that I have seen of Gothic or Grecian architecture. The material of the buildings is a very good stone from...all their many-formed, many-headed, many-handed, and many-weapoued varieties. The sacred bulls devoted to Siva, of every age, tame and familiar as mastiffs,... | |
 | Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1844 - 336 страници
...minuteness and richness the best specimens that I have seen of Gothic or Grecian architecture. The material of the buildings is a very good stone from...deep red colour, and, indeed, of covering the more conspicnous parts of their houses with paintings in gaudy colours of flower-pots, men, women, bulls,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 900 страници
...minuteness and 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 Hindoos here seem fond of painting it a deep red colour, and indeed of covering the more conspicuous parts of their houses with paintings... | |
 | Henry Hardy Cole, William Tayler, South Kensington Museum - 1874 - 412 страници
...minuteness and richness the best specimens that I have seen of Gothic or Grecian architecture. The material of the buildings is a very good stone from Chunar, but the Hindus here seem fond of painting them a deep red colour, and, indeed, of covering the more conspicuous... | |
 | 1828 - 234 страници
...The Hindoos here are fond of painting their buildings of a deep red colour, and of covering the most conspicuous parts of their houses with paintings,...many-headed, many-handed, and many-weaponed varieties. The number of stone and brick houses, from one to six stories high, exceeds 12,000 ; the mudhouses are... | |
 | 1845 - 518 страници
...of Gothic or Grecian architecture. The material of the buildings is a very good stone from Chuñar; but the Hindoos here seem fond of painting them a...conspicuous parts of their houses with paintings in gaudy coluurs of flower-pots, men, women, bulls, elephants, gods and goddesses, in all their many-formed,... | |
 | 1828 - 484 страници
...best specimens that I have seen of Gothic or Urecian architecture. The material of the buildings is » very good stone, from Chunar. but the Hindoos here seem fond of painting them * deep red colour, and, indeed, of covering the more conspicuous parts of their nouses with paintings... | |
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A species of litter. material of the buildings is a very good stone, from Chunar, but the Hindoos here seem fond of painting them a deep red colour, and, indeed, of covering the more conspicuous parts of their houses with paintings in gaudy colours of... 
