 ... circumference of ten miles, and formed in 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, and the temperature of the air; the senses were gratified...  American Agriculturist - Página 1221846Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Edward Gibbon - 1804 - 502 páginas
...the temperature of the air; the senses were gratified with harmonious sounds and aromatic odours ; and the peaceful 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 warned,... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1822 - 1494 páginas
...the temperature of the air ; the senses were gratified with harmonious sounds, and aromatic odours ; and the peaceful 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 of Persian... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 864 páginas
...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 pleasure,... | |
 | George Coventry - 1830 - 232 páginas
...and the temperature of the air; the senses were gratified with harmonious sounds and aromatic odours; and the peaceful 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 warned,... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1841 - 1052 páginas
...the temperature of the air ; the senses were gratified with harmonious sounds and aromatic odours ; and the peaceful grove was consecrated to health and joy, to luxury and love. The vigorous youth pursued, like Apollo, the object of his desire, and the blushing maid was warned... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1843 - 586 páginas
...the temperature of the air ; the sense« were gratified with harmonious sounds and aromatic odours; and the peaceful grove was consecrated to health and joy, to luxury and love. The vigorous youth pursued, like Apollo, the object of his desire, and the blushing maid wu warned... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1846 - 1084 páginas
...the temperature of the air ; the senses were gratified with harmonious sounds and aromatic odours ; and the peaceful grove was consecrated to health and joy, to luxury and lore. The vigorous youth pursued, tike Apollo, the object of his desire, and the blushing maid was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1850 - 624 páginas
...verdure of the earth, and the temperature of the air ; the senses were gratified with harmonious sounfls and aromatic odors ; and the peaceful 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 warned,... | |
 | Frederick Walpole - 1851 - 480 páginas
...and the temperature of the air. The senses were gratified by harmonious sounds, and aromatic odours, and the peaceful grove was consecrated to health, and joy — to luxury and love. "Vain was the great Emperor's attempt to restore its heathen fame. The word had echoed through the... | |
 | Frederick Walpole - 1851 - 482 páginas
...and the temperature of the air. The senses were gratified by harmonious sounds, and aromatic odours, and the peaceful grove was consecrated to health, and joy — to luxury and love. "Vain was the great Emperor's attempt to restore its heathen fame. The word had echoed through the... | |
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