 ... received into a fine polished marble basin, so artfully contrived that it is always full without ever overflowing. When I sup here, this basin serves...  Pompeii [by W. Clarke]. - Seite 242von William Clarke (architect.) - 1836Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Pliny (the Younger.) - 1807 - 424 Seiten
...serves for a table, the larger sort of dishes being placed round the margin, while the smaller ones swim about in the form of little vessels and water-fowl....emptying and filling ; for the water, which it throws up a great height, falling back into it, is, by means of two openings, returned as fast as it is received.... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 Seiten
...serves for a table, the larger sort of dishes being placed round the margin, while the smaller ones swim about in the form of little vessels and water-fowl. Corresponding to this, is a fountain which is incessant]}' emptying and filling ; for the water, which it throws up to a great height, falling back... | |
 | 1821 - 376 Seiten
...serves for a table, the largest sort of dishes being placed round the margin, while the smaller ones swim about in the form of little vessels and water-fowl....emptying and filling ; for the water, which it throws up a great height, falling back into it, is, by means of two openings, returned as last as it is received.... | |
 | Romans - 1821 - 366 Seiten
...serves for a table, the largest sort of dishes being placed round the margin, while the smaller ones swim about in the form of little vessels and water-fowl....this, is a fountain which is incessantly emptying and nlling ; for the water, which it throws up a great height, falling back into it, is, by means of two... | |
 | 1823 - 298 Seiten
...serves for a table, ihe largest sort of dishes being placed round the margin, while the smaller ones swim about in the form of little vessels and water-fowl....emptying and filling; for the water, which it throws up a great height, falling back into it, is, by means of two openings, returned as fast as it is received.... | |
 | George William Johnson - 1829 - 476 Seiten
...smaller ones float in the form of little Vessels and Water fowl. Corresponding to this is a fountais, which is incessantly emptying and filling; for the...to a great height, falling back again into it, is, by means of two openings, returned as fast as it is received. Fronting the Alcove stands a Summer House... | |
 | George William Johnson - 1829 - 466 Seiten
...smaller ones float in the form of little Vessels and Water fowl. Corresponding to this is a fuuntaifi, which is incessantly emptying and filling; for the...to a great height, falling back again into it, is, by means of two openings, returned as fast as it is received. Fronting the Alcove stands a Sum. mer... | |
 | George William Johnson - 1829 - 466 Seiten
...Vessels and Water fowl. Corresponding to this is a fountain, which is incessantly emptying and rilling; for the Water, which it throws up to a great height, falling back again into it, is, by means of two openings, returned as fast as it is received. Fronting the Alcove stands a Summer House... | |
 | George Clarke (F.S.A.) - 1832 - 390 Seiten
...in Lycia, hollow with age, the trunk of which with the smooth and twining acanthus, where the trees are also cut into a variety of names and shapes. At...water, which it throws up to a great height, falling hack again into it, is returned as fast as it is received, by means of two openings. Fronting the alcove... | |
 | 1846 - 670 Seiten
...smaller ones to float about on the surface of the water in the shape of little vessels and water fowl. " Corresponding to this is a fountain, which is incessantly...to a great height, falling back again into it, is by means of two openings returned as fast as it is received. Fronting the alcove, (and which reflects... | |
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