 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,...  The Ladies' Companion - Стр. 1241857Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Edward Gibbon - 1781 - Страниц: 418
...and impenetrable made. A thoufand ftreams of the pureft \vater, iffuing from every hill, preferved the verdure of the earth, and the temperature of the air ; the fenfes were gratified with harmonious founds and aromatic odours ; and the peaceful grove was confecrated... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1804 - Страниц: 502
...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...peaceful grove was consecrated to health and joy, to luxury and love. The vigorous youth pursued, like Apollo, the object of his desires; and the blushing... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - Страниц: 466
...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...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 - 1811 - Страниц: 464
...(Hudson, Geograph. Minor, tom. iii). CHAP. earth, and the temperature of the air ; the senses J^l'»lU were gratified with harmonious sounds and aromatic...peaceful grove was consecrated to health and joy, to luxury and love. The vigorous youth pursued, like Apollo, the object of his desires ; and the blushing... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - Страниц: 498
...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 bill, preserved the verdure of the earth, and the temperature of the air ; the senses were gratified... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1822 - Страниц: 1494
...described by Gibbon as (* composed of laurels and cypress, which formed in the most sultry summers a cool and impenetrable shade. A thousand streams...peaceful grove was consecrated to health and joy, to luxury and love." Decline und Fall of the Roman Empire, chap. xiii. We learn little or nothing of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - Страниц: 864
...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...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 - 1827 - Страниц: 362
...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 - 1829 - Страниц: 408
...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... | |
 | George Coventry - 1830 - Страниц: 232
...treatise De Legibus. reached as far as a circumference of ten miles, and formed in the most sultry summers a cool and impenetrable shade. A thousand streams...peaceful grove was consecrated to health and joy, to luxury and love. The vigorous youth pursued, like Apollo, the object of his desires; and the blushing... | |
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