 Paros and decorated by the statues of gods and heroes, and the lover of the arts must read with a sigh that the works of Praxiteles or Lysippus were torn from their lofty pedestals and hurled into the ditch on the heads of the besiegers...  The Numismatic Chronicle - Page 1661887Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 506 pages
...Paros, and decorated by the statues of gods and heroes; and the lover of the arts must read with a sigh, that the works of Praxiteles or Lysippus were torn...pedestals, and hurled into the ditch on the heads of the besiegers.E3 To each of his lieutenants, Belisarius assigned the defence of a gate, with the wise and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 454 pages
...and decorated by the statues of gods and heroes ; and the lover of the a«s must read with a sigh, that the works of Praxiteles or Lysippus were torn...pedestals, and hurled into the ditch on the heads ot the bisiegers •{-. To each of his lieutenants, Belisarius assigned the defence of a gate, with... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 508 pages
...and decorated by the statues of gods and heroes ; and the lover of the arts must read with a sigh, that the works of Praxiteles or Lysippus were torn...hurled into the ditch on the heads of the besiegers". To each of bis lieutenants, Belisarius assigned the defence of a gate, with the wise and peremptory... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1819 - 268 pages
...Goths. " The lover of the arts," says Gibbon, " must read with a sigh that the works of Praxiteles and Lysippus were torn from their lofty pedestals, and...hurled into the ditch on the heads of the besiegers." He adds, in a note, that the celebrated sleeping Faun of the Barberini palace was found, in a mutilated... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 462 pages
...Paros, and decorated by the statues of gods and heroes; and the lover of the arts must read with a sigh, that the works of Praxiteles or Lysippus were torn from their lofty pedestals, 133,563 Christian souls, besides 8 or 10,000 Jews— without souls?— In the year 1763, the numbers... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1831 - 532 pages
...impervious, and the mole or sepulchre of Hadrian was converted for the first time to the uses of a citadel. The works of Praxiteles or Lysippus were torn from...hurled into the ditch on the heads of the besiegers. For this time, Rome was saved by the skill and intrepidity of the Imperial general ; but in 546, another... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1831 - 480 pages
...sepulchre of Hadrian was converted for the first time to the uses of a citadel. The works of Praxiteles ot Lysippus were torn from their lofty pedestals, and...hurled into the ditch on the heads of the besiegers. For this time, Rome was saved by the skill and intrepidity of the Imperial general ; but in 546, another... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 372 pages
...Goths. " The lover of the arts," says Gibbon, " must read with a sigh, that the works of Praxiteles and Lysippus were torn from their lofty pedestals, and...hurled into the ditch on the heads of the besiegers." He adds, in a note, that the celebrated Sleeping Faun of the Barbarini palace was found, in a mutilated... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 384 pages
...Goths. " The lover of the arts," says Gibbon, " must read with a sigh, that the works of Praxiteles and Lysippus were torn from their lofty pedestals, and...hurled into the ditch on the heads of the besiegers." He adds, in a note, that the celebrated Sleeping Faun of the Barbarini palace was found, in a mutilated... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1842 - 364 pages
...Goths. " The lover of the arts," says Gibbon, " must read with a sigh, that the works of Praxiteles and Lysippus were torn from their lofty pedestals, and...hurled into the ditch on the heads of the besiegers." He adds, in a note, that the celebrated Sleeping Faun of the Barbarini palace was found, in a mutilated... | |
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