 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1781 - 418 pages
...compared in the ExpoCtio totius Mundi, p. 6. (Hudfon, Geograph, Minor, tom. Hi.). cyprefles, which reached as far as a circumference of ten miles, and formed in the moft fultry fummers a cool and impenetrable made. A thoufand ftreams of the pureft \vater, iffuing... | |
 | Julian (Emperor of Rome) - Emperors - 1784 - 402 pages
...reiort of pilgrims and fpeclators, were deeply bofomed in a thick grove of laurels and cyprefles, which reached as far as a circumference of ten miles, and formed in the moft fultry Cummers a cool and impenetrable fhade. . . . The groves of Daphne continued for many ag... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 466 pages
...city. The temple and the village were deeply bosomed in a thick grove of laurels and cypresses, which reached as far as a circumference of ten miles, and...issuing from every hill, preserved the verdure of the 1 4 earth, * Hadrian read the history of his future fortunes on a leaf dipped in the Castnlian stream... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 464 pages
...city. The temple and the village were deeply bosomed in a thick grove of laurels and cypresses, which reached as far as a circumference of ten miles, and...and impenetrable shade. A thousand streams of the pnrest water issuing from every hill, preserved the verdure of the " Hadrian read the history of his... | |
 | Elisa Rogers - Emperors - 1811 - 488 pages
...resort of pilgrims and spectators, were deeply bosomed in a thick grove of laurels and cypresses, which reached as far as a circumference of ten miles', and...most sultry summers, a cool and impenetrable shade. t Ecclesiastical critics, particlarly those (says Gibbon) who love relics, exult in this confession... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...city. The temple and the village were deeply bosomed in a thick grove of laurels and cypresses, which reached as far as a circumference of ten miles, and formed in the most sultry sn aimers a cool and impenetrable shade. A thousand streams of the purest water, issuing from every... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 864 pages
...The temple and the village were • deeply bosomed in a thick grove of laurels and cypresses, which reached as far as a circumference of ten miles, and...the purest water, issuing from every hill, preserved CHAP, the venlure of the earth, and the temperature of the _1 1. air; the senses were gratified with... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - Latin literature - 1827 - 362 pages
...hue and odour, interspersed with statues of the most exquisite workmanship, pure, streams of water preserved the verdure of the earth and the temperature of the air ; and while, on the one hand, the distant prospect caught the eye, on the other, the close retreat... | |
 | Sallust - Rome - 1829 - 408 pages
...every hue and odour, interspersed with statues of the most exquisite workmanship, pure streams of water preserved the verdure of the earth, and the temperature of the air; and while, on the one hand, the distant prospect caught the eye, on the other, the closf retreat invited... | |
 | Sallust - 1830 - 416 pages
...every hue and odour, interspersed with statues of the most exquisite workmanship, pure streams of water preserved the verdure of the earth, and the temperature of the air; and while, on the one hand, the distant prospect caught the eye, on the other, the close retreat invited... | |
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The temple and the village were deeply bosomed in a thick grove of laurels and cypresses, which reached as far as a circumference of ten miles, and formed in the most sultry summers a cool and impenetrable shade. A thousand Streams of the purest water,... 
