 | 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...beautifully encrusted with the precious green marble of Nnmidia ; the perpetual stream of hot water was poured into the capacious basons through so many wide... | |
 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1863 - 1006 sidor
...indiscriminate service of the senators and people. " The walls of the lofty apartments were covered with curioua mosaics, that imitated the art of the pencil in 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... | |
 | Robert Wollaston - 1864 - 96 sidor
...great work, " The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," observes, " the walls of the lofty apartment were covered with curious Mosaics, that imitated the...the elegance of design, and the variety of colours. It was the ambition of the Roman Emperors to construct these superb Thermae either to conciliate the... | |
 | Durham Dunlop - 1868 - 502 sidor
...rnarhle, and more than 3,000 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 incrnsted with the precious green marble of Numidia ; the perpetual stream of hot water was poured... | |
 | Augustus John C. Hare - 1871 - 486 sidor
...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 with the precious green marble of Numidia. The perpetual stream of hot water was poured into the capacious basons through so many wide mouths... | |
 | Durham Dunlop - 1873 - 56 sidor
...Rome or the world could boast. " The walls of the lofty apartments," says Gibbon, "were covered wiih curious mosaics, that imitated the art of the pencil in the elegance of design and variety of colours. The Egyptian granite was beautifully incrusted with the precious green marble of... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1874 - 718 sidor
...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 with the precious green marble of Xumidia. The perpetual stream of hot water was poured into the capacious basons through so many wide... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 672 sidor
...Tuscany. •* Olympiodor. apud Vhot. p. 197. lofty apartments were covered with curious mosaics, thai 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 Numidia ;... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1876 - 668 sidor
...Maremme of modern Tuscany *• Olympiodor. apud Phot. p. 19t. lofty apartments were covered with curiouo mosaics, that imitated the art of the pencil in the elegance of design, and th« variety of colors. The Egyptian granite was beautifully encrusted with the precious green marble... | |
 | John Rhodes (Wesleyan Minister.) - 1876 - 236 sidor
...the people. They 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 in the variety of their colours. The Egyptian granite was beautifully encrusted... | |
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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,... 
