 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1781 - 418 pages
...and impenetrable made. A thoufand ftreams of the pureft \vater, iffuing from every hill, preferved the verdure of the earth, and the temperature of the air ; the fenfes were gratified with harmonious founds and aromatic odours ; and the peaceful grove was confecrated... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1804 - 502 pages
...most sultry summers a cool and impenetrable shade. A thousand streams of the purest water, issuing from every hill, preserved the verdure of the earth,...grove was consecrated to health and joy, to luxury and love. The vigorous youth pursued, like Apollo, the object of his desires; and the blushing maid was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 466 pages
...Constantine, are compared in the Exposijtio totius Mun.li, p. 6. Kudum, G-ograph. Minor, tom. iii. CHAP. earth, and the temperature of the air ; the senses were gratified with harmonious sounds and arc, inatic odours ; and the peaceful grove was consecrated to health and joy, to luxury and love.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 464 pages
...(Hudson, Geograph. Minor, tom. iii). CHAP. earth, and the temperature of the air ; the senses J^l'»lU were gratified with harmonious sounds and aromatic...grove was consecrated to health and joy, to luxury and love. The vigorous youth pursued, like Apollo, the object of his desires ; and the blushing maid was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...aimers a cool and impenetrable shade. A thousand streams of the purest water, issuing from every bill, preserved the verdure of the earth, and the temperature...grove was consecrated to health and joy, to luxury and love. The vigorous youth pursued, like Apollo, the object of his desires ; and the blushing maid was... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1822 - 1494 pages
...the most sultry summers a cool and impenetrable shade. A thousand streams of the purest water issuing from every hill preserved the verdure of the earth,...grove was consecrated to health and joy, to luxury and love." Decline und Fall of the Roman Empire, chap. xiii. We learn little or nothing of the details... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 864 pages
...and the temperature of the _1 1. air; the senses were gratified with harmonious sounds prvttanaU0n * and aromatic odours; and the peaceful grove was consecrated to health and joy, to luxury and love. The soldier and the philosopher wisely avoided the temptation of this sensual paradise ; where... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - Latin literature - 1827 - 362 pages
...hue and odour, interspersed with statues of the most exquisite workmanship, pure, streams of water preserved the verdure of the earth and the temperature of the air ; and while, on the one hand, the distant prospect caught the eye, on the other, the close retreat... | |
 | Sallust - Rome - 1829 - 408 pages
...every hue and odour, interspersed with statues of the most exquisite workmanship, pure streams of water preserved the verdure of the earth, and the temperature of the air; and while, on the one hand, the distant prospect caught the eye, on the other, the closf retreat invited... | |
 | George Coventry - Church of England - 1830 - 232 pages
...most sultry summers a cool and impenetrable shade. A thousand streams of the purest water, issuing from every hill, preserved the verdure of the earth...grove was consecrated to health and joy, to luxury and love. The vigorous youth pursued, like Apollo, the object of his desires; and the blushing maid was... | |
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The temple and the village were deeply bosomed in a thick grove of laurels and cypresses, which reached as far as a circumference of ten miles, and formed in the most sultry summers a cool and impenetrable shade. A thousand streams of the purest water,... 
