| Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1777 - 588 pages
...ò'iS'ereui forms. A: one jnoment it ict-uitd u> tue out out of the earth, like the garden of the Hefperides, and was afterwards broken into the rocks and caverns of Thrace. The fubterraBeous pipes conveyed an inexhauftible fupply of water; and what liad juli before appeared a... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...seemed to rise out of the earth, like the garden of the Hesperides ; at another, it exhibited the rugged rocks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous pipes...what had just before appeared a level plain, might be suddenly converted into a vi ide lake, covered with armed vessels, and replenished with the monsters... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...rise out of the earth, like the garden of the Hesperides ; at another, it exhibited the rugged roeks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous pipes conveyed...what had just before appeared a level plain, might be suddenly converted into a wide lake, covered with armed vessels, and replenished with the monsters... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1820 - 510 pages
...assumed ,,,*!!l.. the most different forms. At one moment it seemed to rise out of the earth, like the garden of the Hesperides, and was afterwards broken...supply of water; and what had just before appeared a level-plain might be suddenly converted into a wide lake, covered with armed vessels, and replenished... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...seemed to rise out of the earth, like the garden of the Hesperides ; at another, it exhibited the rugged rocks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous pipes...what had just before appeared a level plain,. might be suddenly converted into, a wide lake, covered with. armed vessels,. and replenished with the monsters... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...seemed to rise out ofthe earth, like the garden of the Hesperides ; at another, it exhibited the ragged rocks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous pipes...; and what had just before appeared a level plain, mightbe suddenly converted into a wide lake, covered with armed vessels, and replenished with the monsters... | |
| William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...seemed to rise out ofthe earth, like the garden of the Hesperides ; at another, it exhibited the rugged rocks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous pipes conveyed an inexhaustible supply cf water; and what bad just before appeared a levelpiain, mightbs suddenly converted into a wide lake,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 474 pages
...antiquarian. seemed to rise out of the earth, like the garden of the Hesperides, and was afterward broken into the rocks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous...what had just before appeared a level plain might be suddenly converted into a wide lake, covered with armed vessels, and replenished with the monsters... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...seemed to rise out of the earth, like the garden of the Hesperides ; at another, it exhibited the rugged rocks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous pipes...what had just before appeared a level plain, might be suddenly converted into a wide lake, covered with armed vessels, and replenished with the monsters... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...exhibited the rugged rocks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous pipes conveyed an inexbaustable supply of water; and what had just before appeared a level plain, might be suddenly converted into a wide lake, covered with armed vessels, and replenished with the monsters... | |
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