 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1777 - 588 sider
...ò'iS'ereui forms. A: one jnoment it ict-uitd u> tue out out of the earth, like the garden of the Hefperides, and was afterwards broken into the rocks and caverns of Thrace. The fubterraBeous pipes conveyed an inexhauftible fupply of water; and what liad juli before appeared a... | |
 | 1812 - 428 sider
...successively assumed the uiost different forms. At one moment it seemed to rise out of the earth, likt the garden of the Hesperides, and was afterwards broken...what had just before appeared a level plain, might suddenly be converted into a wide lake, covered with armed vessels, and replenished with monsters of... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 sider
...strewed with the finest sand, and successively assumed the most different forms. At one moment, it seemed to rise out of the earth, like the garden of the Hesperides ; at another, it exhibited the rugged rocks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous pipes conveyed... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 398 sider
...ri«e out of the earth, like the garden of the Hesperides; at another, it exhibited the rugged racks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous pipes conveyed...converted into a wide lake, covered with armed vessels, anil replenished with the monsters of the deep. In the decoraiions ot these scenes the Roman Emperors... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 434 sider
...seemed to rise out ofthe earth, like the garden of the Hesperides ; at another, it exhibited the ragged rocks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous pipes...; and what had just before appeared a level plain, mightbe suddenly converted into a wide lake, covered with armed vessels, and replenished with the monsters... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 sider
...strewed with the finest sand, and successively assumed the most different ('onus. At one. moment, it seemed to rise out of the earth, like the garden of the Hesperides ; at another, it exhibited the rugged rocks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous pipes conveyed... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 sider
...seemed to rise out ofthe earth, like the garden of the Hesperides ; at another, it exhibited the rugged rocks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous pipes conveyed an inexhaustible supply cf water; and what bad just before appeared a levelpiain, mightbs suddenly converted into a wide lake,... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 sider
...strewed with the finest sand, and successively assumed the most different forms. At one moment, it seemed to rise out of the earth, like the garden of the Hesperides ; at another, it exhibited the rugged rocks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous pipes conveyed... | |
 | John Miley - 1843 - 362 sider
...the progress of the games, it assumed the most different forms in quick succession. At one moment it seemed to rise out of the earth, like the garden of...vessels, and replenished with the monsters of the deep. As to the decoration of the scenes, we read, on various occasions, that the whole furniture of the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 466 sider
...was strewed with the finest sand, and successively assumed the most different forms. At one moment it seemed to rise out of the earth, like the garden of...vessels, and replenished with the monsters of the deep.9S In the decoration of these scenes the Roman emperors displayed their wealth and liberality... | |
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... over their heads. The air was continually refreshed by the playing of fountains, and profusely impregnated by the grateful scent of aromatics. In the centre of the edifice, the arena, or stage, was strewed with the finest sand, and successively assumed... 
