 | Hunting - 1812 - 428 pages
...edifice, the arena of the stage was strewed with the finest sand, and successively assumed the uiost different forms. At one moment it seemed to rise out of the earth, likt the garden of the Hesperides, and was afterwards broken into the rocks and caverns of Thrace.—... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...from the sun and rain by an ample canopy, occasionally drawn over their heads. The air was continually refreshed by the playing of fountains, and profusely...out of the earth, like the garden of the Hesperides ; at another, it exhibited the rugged rocks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous pipes conveyed... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...refreshed by the playing of fountains, and profusely impregnated by the grateful scent of aromatlcs. In the centre of the edifice, the arena, or stage,...the finest sand, and successively assumed the most differnt forms. At one moment, it seemed to rise out ofthe earth, like the garden of the Hesperides... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...playir.g of fountains, and profusely impregnated by the grateful scent of aromatics. Jn the centie of the edifice, the arena, or stage, was strewed with...the finest sand, and successively assumed the most differnt forms. At one moment, it seemed to rise out ofthe earth, like the garden of the Hesperides... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...tbesun and rain by an ample canopy, occasionally drawn over their heads.—' The air wa* continually refreshed by the playing of fountains, and profusely impregnated by the grateful scent of aromatic*. In the centre of the edifice, the arena, or stage, wae strewed with the finest sand, and... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...from the sun and rain by an ample canopy, occasionally drawn over their heads. The air was continually refreshed by the playing of fountains, and profusely impregnated by the grateful scent of aro' matics. In the centre of the edifice,, the arena, or stage, was strewed with the finest sand,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...the sun and rain by an •ample canopy, occasionally drawn over their heads. The air vras continually refreshed by the playing of fountains, and profusely...out of the earth, like the garden of the Hesperides ; at another, it exhibited the rugged rocks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous pipes conveyed... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...the sun and rain by an ample canopy, occasionally drawn over their heads. The air. was continually refreshed by the playing of fountains, and profusely...aromatics. In the centre of the edifice, the arena, OF stage, was strewed with the finest sand, and successively assumed the most different forms. At one... | |
 | William Smith - Classical dictionaries - 1859 - 1334 pages
...from the sun and rain by an ample canopy, occasionally drawn over their heads. The air was continually refreshed by the playing of fountains, and profusely...seemed to rise out of the earth, like the garden of the Heaperidcs, and was afterwards broken into the rocks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous pipes... | |
 | Literature - 1859 - 558 pages
...from the sun and rain by an ample canopy, occasionally drawn over their heads. The air was continually refreshed by the playing of fountains, and profusely impregnated by the grateful scent of aromatice. In the centre of the edifice, the arena, or stage, was strewed with fine sand, and successively... | |
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Nothing was omitted which, in any respect, could be subservient to the convenience and pleasure of the spectators. They were protected from the sun and rain by an ample canopy, occasionally drawn over their heads. The air was continually refreshed by... 
