 | 1767 - 506 דפים
...ancients, I cannot fee in what the beauty of the Rotunda confifts. It is no more than a plain unpierced cylinder, or circular wall, with two fillets and a...cornice, having a vaulted roof or cupola, open in the center. I mean the original building, without confidering the veflibule of Agrippa. Within fide it... | |
 | 1776 - 314 דפים
...ancients, I cannot fee in what the beauty of the rotunda confifts : it is no more than a plain, unpierced cylinder, or circular wall, with two fillets and a...cornice, having a vaulted roof or cupola, open in the center. 1 mean the original bu. Iding, without confidering the veftibule of Agrippa. The hole in the... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1790 - 592 דפים
...ancients, I cannot fee in what the beauty of the rotunda confifts. It is no more than a plain unpierced cylinder, or circular wall, with two fillets and a...the centre. I mean the original building, without confidering the veftibule of Agrippa. Within fide it has much the air of a maufoleum. It was this appearance... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1796 - 600 דפים
...ancients, I cannot fee in what the beauty of the rotunda confifts. It is no more tlian a plain unpieiced cylinder, or circular wall, with two fillets and a...the centre. I mean the original building, without confidering the veftibule of Agrippa. Within fide it haa much the air of a maufoleum. It was this appearance... | |
 | Thomas Smith - 1803 - 420 דפים
....edifice. That ingemous gentleman compares this structure to a plain unpierced cylinder, or cir; cular wall, with two fillets and a cornice, having a vaulted roof, or cupola,. open, in the centre, twenty-nine feet in diameter ; and adds, that he wonders Pope Urban VIII. who caused the columns to... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 592 דפים
...ancients, I cannot see in vhat the beauty of the rotunda consists. It is io more than a plain unpierced cylinder, or circular wall, with two fillets and a...air of a mausoleum. It was this appearance which, IB all probability suggested the thought to Boniface IV. to transport hither eight-and-twenty cart... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1824 - 414 דפים
...ancients, I cannot see in what the beauty of the rotunda consists. It is no more than a plain unpierced cylinder, or circular wall, with two fillets and a...probability suggested the thought to Boniface IV. t» transport hither eight-and-twenty cart loads of aid rotten bones, dug from different burying-places,... | |
 | James Boaden - 1893 - 554 דפים
...ancients I cannot see in what the beauty of the rotunda consists. It is no more than a plain, unpierced cylinder, or circular wall, with two fillets and a...having a vaulted roof or cupola open in the centre.' A smile is excited by the 'no more' of this definition when it is remembered that simplicity is a leading... | |
 | James Boaden - 1893 - 506 דפים
...ancients I cannot see in what the beauty of the rotunda consists. It is no more than a plain, unpierced cylinder, or circular wall, with two fillets and a...having a vaulted roof or cupola open in the centre.' A smile is excited by the ' no more ' of this definition when it is remembered that simplicity is a... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1900 - 660 דפים
...ancients, I cannot see in what the beauty of the rotunda consists. It is no more than a plain unpierced cylinder, or circular wall, with two fillets and a...suggested the thought to Boniface IV. to transport hither eight-and-twenty cart loads of old rotten bones, dug from different burying-places, and then dedicate... | |
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Agrippa added to the building, is undoubtedly very noble, though in my opinion it corresponds but ill with the simplicity of the edifice. With all my veneration for the ancients, I cannot see in what the beauty of the rotunda consists. It is no more than... 
