 The temple and the village were deeply bosomed in a thick grove of laurels and cypresses, which reached as far as a circumference of ten miles, and formed in the most sultry summers a cool and impenetrable shade. A thousand streams of the purest water,...  The Ladies' Companion - Page 1241857Full view - About this book
 | Austen Henry Layard - 1903 - 396 pages
...the glowing description of those who had visited in its glory this splendid seat of Pagan worship. " A thousand streams of the purest water, issuing from...peaceful grove was consecrated to health and joy, to luxury and love." l But the " vigorous youth," like the god of the shrine, and the " coy maid,"... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 pages
...ypresses, which reached as far as a circumference of .u miles, and formed in the most sultry summers a cool and impenetrable shade. A thousand streams...were gratified with harmonious sounds and aromatic odors ; and the peaceful grove was consecrated to health and joy, to luxury and love. The vigorous... | |
 | Henry Dwight Sedgwick - 1922 - 322 pages
...cypresses, which reached as far as a circumference of ten miles and formed in the most sultry summers a cool and impenetrable shade. A thousand streams...peaceful grove was consecrated to health and joy, to luxury and love. The vigorous youth pursued, like Apollo, the object of his desires; and the blushing... | |
 | James Ballantyne Hannay - 1922 - 598 pages
...of Antioch, and that thirty thousand pounds were annually applied to public pleasures. Amidst groves a thousand streams of the purest water issuing from...harmonious sounds and aromatic odours ; and the peaceful groves were consecrated to health and joy, to luxury and love. The vigorous youth pursued, like Apollo,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 pages
...cypresses, which reached as far as a circumference of ten miles, and formed in the most sultry summers a cool and impenetrable shade. A thousand streams...peaceful grove was consecrated to health and joy, to luxury and love. The vigorous youth pursued, like Apollo, the object of his desires; and the blushing... | |
 | Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1840 - 654 pages
...tho most sultry summers the most impenetrable shade. A thousand streams of the purest water issning from every hill, preserved the verdure of the earth,...with harmonious sounds, and aromatic odours, and the groves of Daphne continued to enjoy for many ages the veneration of natives and strangers. — Ibid.... | |
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