 ... it is 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 - Seite 240von William Clarke (architect.) - 1836Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas Henry Dyer - 1875 - 650 Seiten
...smooth and twining acanthus, where the trees are also cut into a variety of names and shapes. At tho upper end is an alcove of white marble, shaded with...it throws up to a great height, falling back again icto it, is returned as fast as it is received, by means of two openings. Fronting the alcove stands... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 508 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.'... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 478 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.... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 488 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.... | |
 | Rose Standish Nichols - 1902 - 512 Seiten
...serves for a table, the large sort of dishes being placed round the margin, while the smaller ones swim about in the form of little vessels and water-fowl....for the water, which it throws up to a great height, falls back into it by means of two openings, and is returned as fast as it is received." Ezedia. Simplest... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger.) - 1905 - 502 Seiten
...round the margin, while the smaller ones swim about in the form of vessels and waterfowl. Opposite this is a fountain which is incessantly emptying and...to a great height, falling back again into it, is by means of consecutive apertures returned as fatit as it is received. Facing the alcove (and reflecting... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1909 - 532 Seiten
...round the margin, while the smaller ones swim about in the form of vessels and water-fowl. Opposite this is a fountain which is incessantly emptying and...to a great height, falling back again into it, is by means of consecutive apertures returned as fast as it is received. Facing the alcove (and reflecting... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - 1909 - 470 Seiten
...round the margin, while the smaller ones swim about in the form of vessels and water-fowl. Opposite this is a fountain which is incessantly emptying and...to a great height, falling back again into it, is by means of consecutive apertures returned as fast as it is received. Facing the alcove (and reflecting... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1909 - 514 Seiten
...round the margin, while the smaller ones swim about in the form of vessels and water-fowl. Opposite this is a fountain which is incessantly emptying and...to a great height, falling back again into it, is by means of consecutive apertures returned as fast as it is received. Facing the alcove (and reflecting... | |
 | 1846 - 668 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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