 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 464 pages
...spectacle of -;',', * X j '.--the * Robertfon. " the world, how is it fallen, how changed, " how defaced ! Cast your eyes on the Palatine " Hill, and seek among the shapeless and cnor" mous fragments, the marble theatre, the " obelisks, the colossal statues, the porticos of " Nero's... | |
 | John Gustavus Lemaistre - Europe - 1806 - 400 pages
...changed! how defaced! The ' path of Victory is obliterated by vines ; and ' the benches of senators are concealed by a ' dunghill. Cast your eyes on the...Palatine ' Hill, and seek, among the shapeless and enor' mous fragments, the marble theatre, the obe' lisks, the colossal statues, the porticos of Ne*... | |
 | 1828 - 332 pages
...victor, has entirely disappeared, and Rome herself, how is she fallen! how changed! how defaced! " Cast your eyes on the Palatine hill, and seek among the shapeless and enormous fragments, for the marble theatre, the colossal statues, the porticoes of Nero's palace, the public and private... | |
 | 1832 - 528 pages
...obliterated by vines, and the benches of the senators are concealed by a dunghill. Cast your eyes on tbe Palatine hill, and seek among the shapeless and enormous...marble theatre, the obelisks, the colossal statues, the porticos of Nero's palace; survey the other hills of the city, the vacant space is interrupted only... | |
 | Periodicals - 1837 - 260 pages
...that commanding spot the wide and various prospect of desolation : " Cast your eyes on the Palatine, and seek among the shapeless and enormous fragments,...colossal statues, the porticoes of Nero's palace. The public and private ediBces that were founded for eternity, lie prostrate, naked, ,and broken, like... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...that commanding spot ч the wide and various prospect of desolation : "Cast your eyes on the Palatine, and seek among the shapeless and enormous fragments,...colossal statues, the porticoes of Nero's palace. The public and private edifices that were founded for eternity, lie prostrate, naked, .and broken,... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...changed! how defaced! The path of victory is obliterated by vines, and the benches of the senators are concealed by a dunghill. Cast your eyes on the...space is interrupted only by ruins and gardens. The public and private edifices, that were founded for eternity, lie prostrate, naked, and broken, THE... | |
 | James Whiteside - Rome - 1849 - 370 pages
...changed I how defaced ! the path of victory is obliterated by vines, and the benches of the senators are concealed by a dunghill. Cast your eyes on the Palatine Hill, and seek, among the shapeless and ernormous fragments, the marble theatre, the obelisks, the colossal statues, the porticoes of Nero's... | |
 | John Miley - Papal States - 1850 - 694 pages
...shapeless and enormous fragments the marble theatre, the obelisks, the colossal statues, the porticos of Nero's palace : survey the other hills of the city,...enact their laws, and elect their magistrates, is now enclosed for the cultivation of pot-herbs, or thrown open for the reception of swine and buffaloes.... | |
 | John Miley - Papal States - 1850 - 690 pages
...aspect remained the same. He might still have repeated the same words in pointing to the same scene. " Cast your eyes on the Palatine Hill, and seek among...marble theatre, the obelisks, the colossal statues, the porticos of Nero's palace : survey the other hills of the city, the vacant space is interrupted only... | |
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... earth, the terror of kings; illustrated by the footsteps of so many triumphs, enriched with the spoils and tributes of so many nations. This spectacle of the world, how is it fallen ! how changed ! how defaced ! the path of victory is obliterated... 
