 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 530 pages
...like an architect, as well as an. antiquarian. of the edifice, the arena, or stage, was strewed CHAP. with the finest sand, and successively assumed the...earth, like the garden of the Hesperides, and was afterwards broken into the rocks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous pipes conveyed an inexhaustible... | |
 | 1812 - 428 pages
...edifice, the arena of the stage was strewed with the finest sand, and 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 into the rocks and caverns of Thrace.—... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 510 pages
...edifice, the arena, or stage, was strewed CHAP. with the finest sand, and successively assumed ,,,*!!l.. the most different forms. At one moment it seemed...earth, like the garden of the Hesperides, and was afterwards broken into the rocks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous pipes conveyed an inexhaustible... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 pages
...refreshed by the playing of fountains, and profusely impregnated by the grateful scent of aro' matics. In the centre of the edifice,, the arena, or stage,...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... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 434 pages
...refreshed by the playing of fountains, and profusely impregnated by the grateful scent of aromatlcs. In the centre of the edifice, the arena, or stage,...the finest sand, and successively assumed the most differnt forms. At one moment, it seemed to rise out ofthe earth, like the garden of the Hesperides... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 pages
...playir.g of fountains, and profusely impregnated by the grateful scent of aromatics. Jn the centie of the edifice, the arena, or stage, was strewed with...the finest sand, and successively assumed the most differnt forms. At one moment, it seemed to rise out ofthe earth, like the garden of the Hesperides... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 398 pages
...impregnated by the grateful scent of aromatic*. In the centre of the edifice, the arena, or stage, wae strewed with the finest sand, and successively assumed...most different forms. At one moment, it seemed to ri«e out of the earth, like the garden of the Hesperides; at another, it exhibited the rugged racks... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 474 pages
...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,...assumed the most different forms. At one moment it v See Mafiei, Verona Illostrata, p. 4. lib. 1. c. 2. 1 Mafi'ei, lib. 2. c. 2. The height was very much... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...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,...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... | |
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In the centre of the edifice, the arena, or stage, was strewed with the finest sand, and successively assumed the most different forms. At one moment... 
