 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,...  American Agriculturist - Page 2641846Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - 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 - 1804 - 502 pages
...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...were gratified with harmonious sounds and aromatic odours ; and the peaceful grove was consecrated to health and joy, to luxury and love. The vigorous... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 466 pages
...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...issuing from every hill, preserved the verdure of the 1 4 earth, * Hadrian read the history of his future fortunes on a leaf dipped in the Castnlian stream... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 464 pages
...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 pnrest water issuing from every hill, preserved the verdure of the " Hadrian read the history of his... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 pages
...cypresses, which reached as far as a circumference of ten miles, and formed in the most sultry sn 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 of the air ; the senses were gratified... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1822 - 1494 pages
...Orontes in Syria, which in his time was nine miles in circumference- It is described by Gibbon as (* composed of laurels and cypress, which formed in the...were gratified with harmonious sounds, and aromatic odours ; and the peaceful grove was consecrated to health and joy, to luxury and love." Decline und... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 864 pages
...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...the purest water, issuing from every hill, preserved CHAP, the venlure of the earth, and the temperature of the _1 1. air; the senses were gratified with... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - 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 - 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 - 1830 - 232 pages
...contained in his celebrated treatise De Legibus. reached as far as a circumference of ten miles, and formed in the most sultry summers a cool and impenetrable...were gratified with harmonious sounds and aromatic odours; and the peaceful grove was consecrated to health and joy, to luxury and love. The vigorous... | |
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