 | Europe - Civilization, Medieval - 1846 - 202 pages
...no bounds to their extravagance. " Many of their mansions might excuse the exaggeration of the poet, that Rome contained a multitude of palaces, and that...city ; since it included within its own precincts everything which could be subservient either to use or luxury — markets, hippodromes, temples, fountains,... | |
 | Lives - 1799 - 440 pages
...metropolis. The stately mansions of the nobles almost warranted the hyperbole of the poct Chiudinn, who said that Rome contained a multitude of palaces, and that each palace was equal to a city. Although they were destitute of many modern conveniences of life, (for it has been as truly as humorously... | |
 | 1856 - 634 pages
...Theodosian Age of the many stately mansions in Rome might almost excuse the exaggeration of the poet, that Rome contained a multitude of palaces, and that each palace was equal to a city. Is the British metropolis advancingto this destiny ? ' Looking at the maps prefixed to the Post Office... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 446 pages
...honourable citizens." Many of these stately mansions might almost excuse the exaggeration of the poet ; that Rome contained a multitude of palaces, and that...equal to a city : since it included within its own precinct?, every thing which could be subservient either to use or luxury ; markets, hippodromes, temples,... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1816 - 492 pages
...Gothic invasion, is to be understood as indulging in poetic licence, when it describe* " each palace as equal to a city, since it included within its own...be subservient either to use or luxury ; markets, race-courses, temples, fountains, baths, porticoes, shady groves, and artificial aviaries." Of the... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1816 - 500 pages
...Gothic invasion, is to be understood as indulging in poetic licence, when it describes " each palace as equal to a city, since it included within its own...could be subservient either to use or luxury; markets, race-courses, temples, fountains, baths, porticoes, shady groves, and artificial aviaries.'' Of the... | |
 | Christianity - 1829 - 622 pages
...honourable citizens. Many of these stately mansions might almost excuse the exaggeration of the poet, that Rome contained a multitude of palaces, and that...since it included within its own precincts every thing that could be subservient either to use or luxury — markets, hippodromes, temples, fountains, baths,... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1829 - 616 pages
...honourable citizens. Many of these stately mansions might almost excuse the exaggeration of the poet, that Rome contained a multitude of palaces, and that...since it included within its own precincts every thing that could be subservient either to use or luxury — markets, hippodromes, temples, fountains, baths,... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1832 - 642 pages
...Gothic invasion, is to be understood as indulging in poetic license* when it describes "each palace as equal to a city, since it included within its own precincts, every thing wliich could be subservient either to use or luxury ; markets, race-courses, temples, fountains, baths,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1833 - 590 pages
...Theodosian age, of the many stately mansions in Rome, might almost excuse the exaggeration of the poet ; that Rome contained a multitude of palaces, and that each palace was equal to a city. Is the British metropolis advancing to that destiny ? Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, and other... | |
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The historian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire remarks, that the description, composed in the Theodosian age, of the many stately mansions in Rome, might almost excuse the exaggeration of the poet— that Rome contained a multitude of palaces,... 
