 | John Gustavus Lemaistre - 1806 - 400 sidor
...sixteen hundred seats of marble ; and more than three thousand were reckoned in the baths of Dioclesian. The walls of the lofty apartments were covered with...curious mosaics, that imitated the art of the pencil in the elegance of design and the variety of the colors. The Egyptian granite was beautifully incrusted... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 458 sidor
...thousand were reckoned in the baths CHAIi. of Diocletian *. The walls of the lofty apart- XXXL merits were covered with curious mosaics,- that imitated the art of the pencil in the elegance of design, and the variety of colours. The Egyptian granite was beautifully incrusted... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 sidor
...sixteen hundred seats of marble; and more than three thousand were reckoned in the baths of Diocletian*. The walls of the lofty apartments were covered with...curious mosaics, that imitated the art of the pencil in the elegance of design, and the variety of colours. The Egyptian granite was beautifully incrusted... | |
 | Thomas Moule - 1833 - 204 sidor
...with curious mosaics, that imitated the art of the pencil in the elegance of design and the variety of colours : the Egyptian granite was beautifully encrusted with the precious green marble of Numidia. A perpetual stream of hot water 1 Epist. 86. i 2 was poured into capacious basins through many wide... | |
 | Thomas Moule - 1833 - 200 sidor
...reckoned in the baths of Diocletian. The walls of the lofty apartments, according to his authority, were covered with curious mosaics, that imitated the art of the pencil in the elegance of design and the variety of colours : the Egyptian granite was beautifully encrusted... | |
 | JAMES WHITESIDE - 1848 - 412 sidor
...for the indiscriminate service of the senators and the people, contained above sixteen hundred seats of marble. The walls of the lofty apartments were...imitated the art of the pencil in elegance of design and the variety of their colours. * See Region 12, Baths of Antoninus. The Egyptian granite was beautifully... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1850 - 672 sidor
...the dreary, unwholesome, uncultivated Maremme of modern Tuscany. 68 Olympiodor. apud Phot. p. 197. lofty apartments were covered with curious mosaics, that imitated the art of the pencil in the elegance of design, and the variety of colors. The Egyptian granite was beautifully encrusted with... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1852 - 684 sidor
...dreary, unwholesome, uncultivated Maremnie of modern Tuscany. 48 Olympiodor. apud Phot. p. 197. Loltv apartments were covered with curious mosaics, that imitated the art of the pencil in the elegance of design, and the variety of colors. The Egyptian granite was beautifully encrusted with... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 458 sidor
...hundred seats of marble ; and more than three thousand were reckoned in the baths of Diocletian.58 The walls of the lofty apartments were covered with...curious mosaics, that imitated the art of the pencil in the elegance of design and the variety of colours. The Egyptian granite was beautifully encrusted with... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1856 - 752 sidor
...mosaics, that imitated the art of the pencil in the elegance of design, and . the variety of colors. The Egyptian granite was beautifully .encrusted with the precious green marble of Nuinidia ; the perpetual stream of hot water was poured into the capacious basins, through so many... | |
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The walls of the lofty apartments were covered with curious mosaics, that imitated the art of the pencil in the elegance of design and the variety of colours. 
