 | 1828 - 484 sidor
...supplied from the stupendous aqueducts. The walls of their lofty apartments were covered with cuiious mosaics, that imitated the art of the pencil in 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... | |
 | Samuel Sloan - 1870 - 542 sidor
...churches of Rome. Gibbon thus describes the public baths of Rome : " The walls of the 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 incrusted with the precious green marble of Numidia ;... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1865 - 736 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... | |
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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,... 
