Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold: Containing Dissertations on the Ruins of Rome; and an Essay on Italian LiteratureJohn Murray, 1818 - 576 стор. |
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... repairing it , made a bargain with Benedetti bishop of Spoleto , to furnish him with a portion of the columns and marbles for three and twenty crowns . The community of Piscignano opposed this spoliation for some time , and an order was ...
... repairing it , made a bargain with Benedetti bishop of Spoleto , to furnish him with a portion of the columns and marbles for three and twenty crowns . The community of Piscignano opposed this spoliation for some time , and an order was ...
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... repair of the city walls3 . In the end of the same century ( XVth ) , Pom- ponius Lætus made a collection of antiques on the Quirinal , and distinguished himself in explor- ing the ruins ; but the forgery of the inscription to Claudian ...
... repair of the city walls3 . In the end of the same century ( XVth ) , Pom- ponius Lætus made a collection of antiques on the Quirinal , and distinguished himself in explor- ing the ruins ; but the forgery of the inscription to Claudian ...
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... repair of every ruin3 . But the whole of his beautiful verses are an hyperbole . He says that Brennus only delayed the chastisement that awaited him , that Pyrrhus was at last defeated , and that Hannibal wept his success ; therefore ...
... repair of every ruin3 . But the whole of his beautiful verses are an hyperbole . He says that Brennus only delayed the chastisement that awaited him , that Pyrrhus was at last defeated , and that Hannibal wept his success ; therefore ...
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... repair were those of a poet , and the ruins of the palace of Sallust remained to contradict them in the time of Procopius2 . The injury done by Genserick ( A. D. 455 ) was not so great as that of the Goths , and Da Barga dispatches his ...
... repair were those of a poet , and the ruins of the palace of Sallust remained to contradict them in the time of Procopius2 . The injury done by Genserick ( A. D. 455 ) was not so great as that of the Goths , and Da Barga dispatches his ...
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... repair ' . A palace partly in ruins on the Pincian mount , marbles and square blocks every where lying prostrate3 , the desertion and decay of many houses , must , partially at least , be attributed to the fire of ' Cassiodori . Variar ...
... repair ' . A palace partly in ruins on the Pincian mount , marbles and square blocks every where lying prostrate3 , the desertion and decay of many houses , must , partially at least , be attributed to the fire of ' Cassiodori . Variar ...
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