 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 Seiten
...and rising with four successive orders of architecture, to the height of one hundred and forty feet. The outside of the edifice was encrusted with marble, and decorated with statues. The slopes of tne vast concave, which formed the inside, were filled, and surrounded with sixty or eighty rows of... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 Seiten
...and rising with four successive orders of architecture, to the height of one hundred and forty feet. The outside of the edifice was encrusted with marble,...decorated with statues. The slopes of the vast concave, whicb' forraed the inside, were filled, and surrounded with sixty or eighty rows of seats of marble,... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 398 Seiten
...and rising with four successive orders of architecture, to the height of one hundred and forty feet. The outside of the edifice was encrusted with marble, and decorated with statues. The dopes of the vast concave, which formed the inside, were filled, and surrounded with sixty or eighty... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 Seiten
...and rising with four suceessive orders of architecture,to the height of one hundred and forty feet. The outside of the edifice was encrusted with marble, and decorated with statues. Theslopes of the vast concave,which formed the inside, were filled, and surrounded with sixty or eigh'.y... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1866 - 138 Seiten
...fourscore arches, and rising, with four successive orders of architecture, to the height of 140 feet. The outside of the edifice was encrusted with marble,...and decorated with statues, The slopes of the vast * Gibbon, "Decline and Fall of Rome,"i. 410, 417. concave which formed the inside, were filled anil... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1868 - 670 Seiten
...rising, with four successive orders of architecture, to the height of one hundred and forty feet.w The outside of the edifice was encrusted with marble, and decorated with {statues. Tim slopes of the vast concave, which formed the inside, were filled and surrounded with sixty or eighty... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1870 - 1186 Seiten
...fourscore arches, and rising, with four successive ordera of architecture, to the height of 140(157) feet. The outside of the edifice was encrusted with marble,...statues. The slopes of the vast concave which formed theinside were filled and surrounded with sixty or eighty rows of seats, of marble likewise, covered... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 Seiten
...four score arches, and rising, with four successive orders of architecture, to the height of 140 feet. The outside of the edifice was encrusted with marble...of the vast concave, which formed the inside, were Such were the bloody Circus' Denial laws, And the imperial pleasure.- — Wherefore not ? What matters... | |
 | Robert Fowler Leighton - 1878 - 596 Seiten
...and rising, with four successive orders of architecture, to the height of one hundred and forty feet. The outside of the edifice was encrusted with marble, and decorated with sta'tm-s. The slopes of the vast concave which formed the inside were filled and snrroundi-d with sixty... | |
 | Hiram Collins Haydn - 1880 - 172 Seiten
...The amphi- . . _ t . rr , theatre of xi- to many, its magnificence difficult to conceive by most. " The outside of the edifice was encrusted with marble and decorated with statues." The spectators were screened from the sun and rain by an ample canopy. " The air was continually refreshed... | |
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It was a building of an elliptic figure, five hundred and sixty-four feet in length, and four hundred and sixty-seven in breadth, founded on fourscore arches, and rising, with four successive orders of architecture, to the height of one hundred and forty... 
