 | 1806 - 606 pages
...may yet be seen. Immense palaces, ornamented with gilded roofs, in imitation of Roman magnificence; a tower of prodigious size, remarkable hot baths, relics of temples, and thi-atres inclosed within fine walls, parts of which remain standing. You will find on all -ides, both... | |
 | 1835 - 740 pages
...may still be seen. Immense palaces, ornamented with gilded roofs, in imitation of Roman magnificence, a tower of prodigious size, remarkable hot baths, relics of temples and theatres, enclosed by walls, parts of which remain standing. You will find on all sides, both within and without... | |
 | Giraldus (Cambrensis.) - 1863 - 550 pages
...with gilded roofs, in imitation of Roman magnificence, inasmuch as chey were first raised by the Eoman princes, and embellished with splendid buildings ;...temples, and theatres, all inclosed within fine walls, parts of which remain standing. You will find on all sides, both within and without the circuit of... | |
 | Charles Octavius S. Morgan - 1880 - 812 pages
...ornamented with gilded roofs in imitation of Roman magnificence, inasmuch as they were first raised by the Roman princes and embellished with splendid buildings...of prodigious size, remarkable hot baths, relics of 70 temples and theatres, all enclosed within fine walls, part of which remain standing. You will find... | |
 | 1885 - 434 pages
...may yet be seen; immense palaces ornamented with gilded roofs, in imitation of Roman magnificence ; a tower of prodigious size ; remarkable hot baths ; relics of temples and theatres, enclosed within fine walls, parts of which remain standing. You will find on all sides, both within... | |
 | Monmouthshire and Caerleon Antiquarian Association - 1886 - 110 pages
...may yet be seen; immense palaces ornamented with gilded roofs, in imitation of Roman magnificence ; a tower of prodigious size ; remarkable hot baths ; relics of temples and theatres, enclosed within fine walls, parts of which remain standing. You will find on all sides, both within... | |
 | 1893 - 240 pages
...seen ; immense palaces, formerly ornamented with gilded roofs in imitation of Roman magnificence ; a tower of prodigious size, remarkable hot baths, relics of temples and theatres, all enclosed within fine walls, part of which remain standing. You will find on all sides, both within... | |
 | Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - 1898 - 622 pages
...their daies." (f'itl>r:<i>i Register (1796), pp. 96—8; Kfport uf the \\'<-l*h Luinl C<,mmi**ion (Land. 1896), p. 663.) 2 Giraldus says, " this city...part of which remain standing," etc. (Desc., i, c. <r>). The castle of Cardiff was surrounded by high walls, and Giraldus refers to the city as containing... | |
 | Sir John Rhys, Sir David Brynmor Jones, David Brynmor-Jones - 1906 - 734 pages
...enclosures was made in their daies" (" Cambrian Register" (1796), pp. 96-8 ; " Report," p. 663). 3 Giraldus says, " This city (Caerleon) was of undoubted...castle of Cardiff was surrounded by high walls, and domestic life of the Welsh centred round the timber-built houses of -the kings, princes, lords or uchelwyr... | |
 | George Laurence Gomme - 1907 - 458 pages
...former splendour, "immense palaces ornamented with gilded roofs in imitation of Roman magnificence, a tower of prodigious size, remarkable hot baths, relics of temples and theatres enclosed by walls parts of which remain standing,"1 but all deserted. Caer Peris (Porchester), and... | |
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This city was of undoubted antiquity, and handsomely built of masonry, with courses of bricks, by the Romans. Many vestiges of its former splendour may yet be seen; immense palaces formerly ornamented with gilded roofs, in imitation of Roman magnificence... 
