The fall of Jerusalem and the Roman conquest of Judea . MOUNT OF OLIVES. tower, the Antonia, at the corner of the Temple—andon that Temple itself, the centre of the Jewish faith, thehome of the Old Revelation, blazing all over with spikesof gold, which glittered in the sun like shafts of , its colonnades and its massive gates flung theirbroad, heavy shadows over the courts, and so produced thatmagical contrast of light and shade, which is not only im-portant in an artistic point of view, but in its singularinfluence on the spectators imagination. Further aroundmounted roof after roof
The fall of Jerusalem and the Roman conquest of Judea . MOUNT OF OLIVES. tower, the Antonia, at the corner of the Temple—andon that Temple itself, the centre of the Jewish faith, thehome of the Old Revelation, blazing all over with spikesof gold, which glittered in the sun like shafts of , its colonnades and its massive gates flung theirbroad, heavy shadows over the courts, and so produced thatmagical contrast of light and shade, which is not only im-portant in an artistic point of view, but in its singularinfluence on the spectators imagination. Further aroundmounted roof after roof in long succession, partly envelopedin the long volumes of smoke which rose from the eveningsacrifice; and against the distant horizon towered theblue masses of the mountains, as if to fence in from theouter world a scene so glorious, so sacred, and so fair. THE CITY. 13 In truth, a glorious scene ; for Jerusalem at that epochsurpassed all the other cities of the known world ingrandeur. A Latin writer, some few years later, spokeof it as longe clar
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