 At the upper end is an alcove of white marble, shaded with vines and supported by four small Carystian columns. From this semicircular couch, the water, gushing up through several little pipes, as though pressed out by the weight of the persons who recline...  In Portia's Gardens - Page 205by William Sloane Kennedy - 1897 - 232 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - World history - 1837 - 548 pages
...bordered the straight and winding alleys that crossed the grounds. At the end of one of these walks was an alcove of white marble, shaded with vines, and supported by four pillars. 10. A fountain here emptied itself into a marble basin, contrived with so much art as to be... | |
 | Old Humphrey, Peter Parley - Italy - 1839 - 376 pages
...the straight and winding alleys that intersected the grounds. At the end of one of these walks was an alcove of white marble, shaded with vines, and supported by four pillars. 15. A fountain here emptied itself into a marble basin, contrived with so much art as to be... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - World history - 1854 - 650 pages
...bordered the straight and winding alleys that crossed the grounds. At the end of one of these walks was an alcove of white marble, shaded with vines, and supported by four pillars. 10. A fountain here emptied itself into a marble basin, contrived with so much art as to be... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - World history - 1870 - 376 pages
...bordered the straight and winding alleys that crossed the grounds. At the end of one of these walks was an alcove of white marble, shaded with vines and supported by four pillars. 10. A fountain here emptied itself into a marble basin contrived with so much art as to be... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger) - 1878 - 466 pages
...remote. And this conjecture seems to be strongly supported by Pliny's calling it flexttosus. M. _^^ shaded with vines and supported by four small Carystian...upon it, falls into a stone cistern underneath, from whence it is received into a fine polished marble basin, so skilfully contrived that it is always full... | |
 | Walter Howe - Gardening - 1890 - 332 pages
...an acacia, smooth and bending in places, then again various other shapes and names. At the upper end is an alcove of white marble, shaded with vines and...though pressed out by the weight of the persons who reclined themselves upon it, falls into a stone cistern underneath, from whence it is received into... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger.) - 1905 - 502 pages
...fexuuiu». Id. 1 Plin. lli'.t. Nat. ' Sir William Tempi«. LITTER 6.] THE LETTEBd OF PLINY. 169 «haded with vines and supported by four small Carystian * columns. From this semicircular oonch, the water, gushing up through several little pipes, as though piessed out by the weight of the... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Friendship - 1909 - 532 pages
...an acacia, smooth and bending in places, then again various other shapes and names. At the upper end is an alcove of white marble, shaded with vines and...upon it, falls into a stone cistern underneath, from whence it is received into a fine polished marble basin, so skilfully contrived that it is always full... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - Literature - 1909 - 470 pages
...an acacia, smooth and bending in places, then again various other shapes and names. At the upper end is an alcove of white marble, shaded with vines and...upon it, falls into a stone cistern underneath, from whence it is received into a fine polished marble basin, so skilfully contrived that it is always full... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Friendship - 1909 - 450 pages
...an acacia, smooth and bending in places, then again various other shapes and names. At the upper end is an alcove of white marble, shaded with vines and...it, falls into a stone , cistern underneath, from whence it is received into a fine polished marble basin, so skilfully contrived that it is always full... | |
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