 | John Gustavus Lemaistre - 1806 - 400 sidor
...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...pencil in the elegance of design and the variety of the colors. The Egyptian granite was beautifully incrusted with the precious green marble of Numidia.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 sidor
...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...the elegance of design, and the variety of colours. The Egyptian granite was beautifully incrusted with the precious green marble of Numidia; the perpetual... | |
 | 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...the elegance of design and the variety of colours : the Egyptian granite was beautifully encrusted with the precious green marble of Numidia. A perpetual... | |
 | JAMES WHITESIDE - 1848 - 412 sidor
...and the people, contained above sixteen hundred seats of marble. The walls of the lofty apartments were covered with curious mosaics that imitated the art of the pencil in elegance of design and the variety of their colours. * See Region 12, Baths of Antoninus. The Egyptian... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1850 - 672 sidor
...unwholesome, uncultivated Maremme of modern Tuscany. 68 Olympiodor. apud Phot. p. 197. lofty apartments were covered with curious mosaics, that imitated the...pencil in the elegance of design, and the variety of colors. The Egyptian granite was beautifully encrusted with the precious green marble of Numidia ;... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 458 sidor
...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...the elegance of design and the variety of colours. The Egyptian granite was beautifully encrusted with the precious green marble of Numidia ; the perpetual... | |
 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1863 - 998 sidor
...hours for the indiscriminate service of the senators and people. "The walls of the lofty apartments were covered with curious mosaics, that imitated the...the elegance of design, and the variety of colours. The Egyptian granite was beautifully encrusted with the precious green marble of Numidia ; the perpetual... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1864 - 750 sidor
...other imaginary beings were portrayed in mosaics. Thus Gibbon remarks, in his " Decline and Fall :" " The walls of the lofty apartment were covered with...imitated the art of the pencil in the elegance of their design and the beauty of their colours. It was the ambition of the Roman emperors to construct... | |
 | James Whiteside - 1860 - 610 sidor
...and the people, contained above sixteen hundred scats of marble. The walls of the lofty apartments were covered with curious mosaics that imitated the art of the pencil in elegance of design and in the variety of their colours. The Egyptian granite was beautifully encrusted... | |
 | Dawson Massy - 1863 - 522 sidor
...marble and the Diocletian more than three thousand. The walls of their lofty apartments were still covered with curious mosaics, that imitated the art...the elegance of design and the variety of colours. The Egyptian granite was beautifully encrusted with the precious green marble of Nnmidia ; the perpetual... | |
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The Egyptian granite was beautifully encrusted with the precious green marble of Numidia; the perpetual stream of hot water was poured into the capacious basins through so many wide mouths of bright and massy silver; and the meanest Roman could purchase,... 
