 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,...  American Agriculturist - Strana 2641846Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Edward Gibbon - 1781 - Počet stránok 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 - Počet stránok 502
...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...were gratified with harmonious sounds and aromatic odours ; and the peaceful grove was consecrated to health and joy, to luxury and love. The vigorous... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - Počet stránok 466
...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...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 - Počet stránok 464
...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 pnrest water issuing from every hill, preserved the verdure of the " Hadrian read the history of his... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - Počet stránok 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 - Počet stránok 1494
...Orontes in Syria, which in his time was nine miles in circumference- It is described by Gibbon as (* composed of laurels and cypress, which formed in the...were gratified with harmonious sounds, and aromatic odours ; and the peaceful grove was consecrated to health and joy, to luxury and love." Decline und... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - Počet stránok 864
...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...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 - Počet stránok 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 - Počet stránok 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 - Počet stránok 232
...contained in his celebrated treatise De Legibus. reached as far as a circumference of ten miles, and formed in the most sultry summers a cool and impenetrable...were gratified with harmonious sounds and aromatic odours; and the peaceful grove was consecrated to health and joy, to luxury and love. The vigorous... | |
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