Buildings – Inexpensive Progress

Here are some beautiful mausoleums in India. The extravagance of these buildings blows me away and I hope one day I will be able to see them. But I thought it would be interesting to post them as a series of beautiful objects.

There is a tenderness and repose – a dreamy voluptuousness, melancholy, and splendour peculiar to Eastern Scenery – more particularly when the moonlight is upon it – that, as the eye meets it, flow in upon the mind like successive waves of rich and delicious poetry. The luxuriant vegetation, the umbrageous foliage, and resplendent hues of, to the stranger, unknown and innumerable flowers; – the ghants and gondolas of the rivers; the temples, places, mosques and mausoleums, everywhere peering among the hills, or from the bosom of glens, upon the shore, all combine to give an impress, a character, a spirit to the scene, unseen elsewhere, peculiar to itself, its own. †