| Edward Gibbon - 1788 - 470 páginas
...of Virgil. This Tarpeian rock was then a " favage and folitary thicket: in the time of " the poet, it was crowned with the golden " roofs of a temple...fortune has accomplished her revolution, and " the facred ground is again disfigured with " thorns and brambles.- The hill of the Ca" pitol, on which... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1789 - 372 páginas
...folitary. thicket : in the time of the poet, it " was crowned with the golden roofs of a temple; <c the temple is overthrown , the gold has been * pillaged, the wheel of fortune has accomplished CHAP, *' her revolution , and the facred ground is again LXXI. ** disfigured with thorns and brambles.... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 páginas
...was then a savage and solitary thickM et: in the time of the poet, it was crowned with the gol" den roofs of a temple; the temple is overthrown, the gold..." which we sit, was formerly the head of the Roman em" pire, the citadel of the earth, the terror of kings ; illus- » " trated by the footsteps of so... | |
| John Gustavus Lemaistre - 1806 - 400 páginas
...of Virgil. This Tarpeian ' Rock was then a savage and solitary thieket : ' in the time of the poet, it was crowned with ' the golden roofs of a temple....pillaged: the ' wheel of Fortune has accomplished her revo' lution: and the sacred ground is again disfi' gured with thorns and brambles. The Hill * of the... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 558 páginas
...Virgil. This Tarpeian rock was then a LXXI. „ savage and solitary thicket. In the time of the " poet, it was crowned with the golden roofs of a " temple...gold has " been pillaged, the wheel of fortune has accom" plished her revolution, and the sacred ground is *' again disfigured with thorns and brambles.... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 564 páginas
...and solitary thicket. In the time of the poet, it was crowned with the golden roofs of a " temple j the temple is overthrown, the gold has " been pillaged, the wheel of fortune has accom" plished her revolution, and the sacred ground is '* again disfigured with thorns and brambles.... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1813 - 556 páginas
...gold " has been pillaged, the wheel of' fortune has " accompliftied her revolution, and the facred " ground is again disfigured with thorns and " brambles. The hill of the Capitol, on which " we fit, was formerly the head of the Roman " empire, the citadel of the earth, the terror of " kings ;... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 páginas
...of Virgil. This " Tarpeian rock was then a savage and solitary thicket: •in the lime of the poet, it was crowned with the golden roofs of a temple ;...of the Roman empire, the citadel of the earth, the ter" ror of kings ; illustrated by the footsteps of so many "triumphs, enriched with the spoils and... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 458 páginas
...fancy of Virgil. This Tarpeian rock was then a savage and solitary thicket ; in the time of the poet, it was crowned with the golden roofs of a temple ;...thorns and brambles. The hill of the Capitol, on which in quarto, Milano, 1751. a free version by the author, which may be quoted with the same confidence... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 páginas
...fancy of Virgil. This Tarpeian rock was then a savage and solitary thicket : in the time of the poet, it; was crowned with the golden roofs of a temple:...accomplished her revolution, and the sacred ground is ugain disfigured with thorns and brambles. The hill of the Capitol, on which we sit, was formerly the... | |
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