 | Joseph Lavallée (marq. de Bois-Robert.) - 1804 - 324 pagine
...porphyry, and palaces with Corinthian pillars; whereas, five hundred years after, Augustus boasted that he had found Rome of brick, and left it of marble ; I have seen the proud Agamemnon assassinated at the foot of a column which Cullimachus invented only... | |
 | Edward Burton - 1828 - 380 pagine
...Tiberius, mentions the quarries as being worked to a great extent in his day/ The boast of Augustus, that he had found Rome of brick, and left it of marble,' is of course to be taken in some respects as an imperial hyperbole : but the alteration, which took... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1831 - 480 pagine
...fall of Carthage and of Corinth. After that period, it rapidly increased ; yet, the boast of Augustus, that he had found Rome of brick, and left it of marble, although to be taken in some respects as an imperial hyperbole, proves that, in his reign, a very perceptible... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1836 - 426 pagine
...dear for the arts. It is, doubtless, fine to talk of an Augustan era, and Augustus himself was said to boast that he had found Rome of brick, and left it of marble ; but if he had added, as in truth he might, that he had found Rome free, and had left it enslaved,... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1836 - 302 pagine
...dear for the arts. It is, doubtless, fine to talk of an Augustan era, and Augustus himself was said to boast that he had found Rome of brick, and left it of marble ; but if he had added, as in truth he might, that he had found Rome free, and had left it enslaved,... | |
 | Gustaf Clemens Hebbe - 1848 - 592 pagine
...houses were, however, generally of brick and wood, up to the reign of Augustus Caesar, who boasted that he had found Rome of brick, and left it of marble. It was built upon seven, or, more correctly speaking, upon twelve hills. Ita extent must have been... | |
 | Henry George Liddell - 1855 - 606 pagine
...of the Forum, erroneously called the Temple of Peace. r C'hapt. Ixvii. § 3. d Chapt. iii. § 24. 0 Rome ; here was displayed the greatest achievement...that he had " found Rome of brick, and left it of marble."8 § 22. But it was not to Rome alone that Augustus, Agrippa, and others confined their labours.... | |
 | John Bonner - 1856 - 328 pagine
...TDK GREAT DBAIN AMD VICINITY. So many works of this kind were built during his reign, that he used to boast that he had found Rome of brick and left it of marble. It was not usual to drive through the streets of Rome. Women and sick persons were allowed to be carried... | |
 | Henry George Liddell - 1857 - 882 pagine
...distinctive attribute of the Christian Architecture of modern Italy. By these and many other works, — politic both because they increased the magnificence...had " found Rome of brick, and left it of marble. "J * The Basilica was a Hall of greater length than breadth, divided into a central nave, Hanked on... | |
 | Henry George Liddell - 1857 - 792 pagine
...distinctive attribute of the Christian Architecture of modern Italy. By these and many other works, — politic both because they increased the magnificence...that he had " found Rome of brick, and left it of marble."J • The Basilica wan a Hall of greater Jongth than breadth, divided into a central nave,... | |
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By these and many other works, — politic both because they increased the magnificence and the health of the capital, and also gave constant employment to workmen who might otherwise have been turbulent, — the Emperor Augustus was enabled to boast... 
