The Seven Wonders of the World —— With Their Associations in Art and History

----- 世界七大奇迹：与艺术和历史的联系

ISBN: 9781330102411 出版年：2016 页码：317 Forgotten Books

The association of ideas that will necessarily arise in contemplating these wondrous works of past ages, leads to the notice of other fabrics of a similar kind of after-times, as well as to those of our own day'; as the more remarkable mausoleums or memorials of. The great and the brave — the Pyramids of India and Mexico — and those vast mounds of similar form in other parts of the globe; and in connection with the Pharos that originated a name for such structures, the Pharos of the Emperor Claudius at Ostia; among others of modern date, the superb one at Cordouan; andespecially, we may refer with pride to those paragons of engineering triumph Over natural obsta cles, — the light-houses on the Eddystone, and the Bell Rock.