| 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...variety of colours. The Egyptian granite was beautifully incrusted with the precious green marble of Numidia; the perpetual stream of hot water was poured into... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1831 - 468 sidor
...than three thousand were reckoned in the baths of Diocletian. (57) The walls of the lofty apartments were covered with curious mosaics, that imitated the...and the variety of colours. The Egyptian granite was beautitully incrusted with the precious green marble of Numidia ; the perpetual stream of hot water... | |
| 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 - 462 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...encrusted with the precious green marble of Numidia ; the perpetual stream of hot water was poured into the capacious basons through so many wide mouths... | |
| 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... | |
| 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...encrusted with the precious green marble of Numidia ; the perpetual stream of hot water was poured into the capacious basin through so many wide mouths... | |
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1864 - 750 sidor
...portrayed in mosaics. Thus Gibbon remarks, in his " Decline and Fall :" " The walls of the lofty apartment were covered with curious mosaics, that 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... | |
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