 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 - 1880 - 730 pages
...Faros, 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 " The nccurate eye of Nardini (Roma Antica, 1. ic viii. p. 31) could distinguish the tumultuarie opere... | |
 | 1886 - 552 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...hurled into the ditch on the heads of the besiegers.* To each of his lieutenants Belisarius assigned the defence of a gate, with the wise and peremptory... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1895 - 552 pages
...Paro.s 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 his lieutenants Belisarius assigned the defence of a gate, with the wise and peremptory... | |
 | William Mathews - 1896 - 364 pages
...decorated with the statues of gods and heroes ; and these masterpieces of art, the works of Praxiteles and Lysippus, were torn from their lofty pedestals and...hurled into the ditch on the heads of the besiegers, who were defeated with great slaughter, and compelled to raise the siege. The Results IN reading the... | |
 | William Mathews - 1896 - 368 pages
...decorated with the statues of gods and heroes ; and these masterpieces of art, the works of Praxiteles and Lysippus, were torn from their lofty pedestals and...hurled into the ditch on the heads of the besiegers, who were defeated with great slaughter, and compelled to raise the siege. The Results IN reading the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1899 - 616 pages
...Pares, 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 his lieutenants, Belisarius assigned n The accurate eye of Nardini (Roma Antics, 1. ic viii.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 576 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...hurled into the ditch on the heads of the besiegers. 93 To each of his lieutenants Belisarius assigned the defence of a gate with the wise and peremptory... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 736 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 his lieutenants, Belisarius assigned the defence of a gate, with the wise and peremptory... | |
 | Felicia Hemans - 2002 - 506 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."3 He adds, in a note, that the celebrated sleeping Faun of the Barberini palace America,... | |
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