 The libraries which they have inherited from their fathers are secluded, like dreary sepulchres, from the light of day. But the costly instruments of the theatre, flutes, and enormous lyres, and hydraulic organs, are constructed for their use ; and the...  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - 第278页作者：Edward Gibbon - 1811全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | 1840 - 382 页
...event. The harmony of vocal and instrumental music is continually repeated in the palaces of Rome, where sound is preferred to sense, and the care of the body to that of the mind." * Ammianus Marcellinus, as quoted by Gibbon. A party, in falling Rome, was not so very different from... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 页
...of day. But the costly instruments of the theatre, flutes, and enormous lyres, and hydraulic organs, are constructed for their use ; and the harmony of...is allowed, as a salutary maxim, that the light and frivovolous suspicion of a contagious malady is of sufficient weight to excuse the visits of the most... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 458 页
...day.18 But the costly instruments of the theatre, " flutes, and enormous lyres, and hydraulic organs, are constructed " for their use ; and the harmony...is allowed as a salutary maxim, that the light and frivo" lous suspicion of a contagious malady is of sufficient weight to excuse " the visits of the... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1855 - 446 页
...of day ; but the costly instruments of the theatre, flutes and enormous lyres, and hydraulic organs, are constructed for their use ; and the harmony of...music is incessantly repeated in the palaces of Rome. 508. MODERN LEGISLATORS. — Ancient lawgivers studied the nature of man, and formed his mind to virtue... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 358 页
...AUTHORS. [A. MAKCELLIA"DS. arc constructed for their use ; ami tho harmony of vocal aud mstrumental music is incessantly repeated in the palaces of Rome. In those palaces, sound is preferred to senso, and the care of the body to that of the mind. It is allowed, as a salutary maxim, that the light... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 页
...of day. But the costly instruments of the theatre, flutes, and enormous lyres, and hydraulic organs, are constructed for their use ; and the harmony of vocal and instrumental music a incessantly repeated in the palaces of Home. In those palaces, sound is preferred to sense, and the... | |
 | Dawson Massy - 1863 - 522 页
...of day. But the costly instruments of the theatre, flutes and enormous lyres, and hydraulic organs, are constructed for their use ; and the harmony of...music is incessantly repeated in the palaces of Rome, where sound is preferred to sense, and the care of the body to that of the mind. Yet all this selfish... | |
 | 1864 - 644 页
...light of day. But the costly instruments of the theatre, flutes, enormous lyres and hydraulic organs are constructed for their use ; and the harmony of...sense, and the care of the body to that of the mind." — Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, c. 31. Does no one see, in this condensing paragraph... | |
 | 1864 - 646 页
...light of day. But the costly instruments of the theatre, flutes, enormous lyres and hydraulic organs are constructed for their use ; and the harmony of...to sense, and the care of the body to that of the mind."—Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, c. 31. Does no one see, in this condensing... | |
 | John Lord - 1867 - 608 页
...costly instruments of the theatre, flutes and hydraulic organs, are constructed for their use. In their palaces sound is preferred to sense, and the care of the body to that of the mind. The suspicion of a malady is of sufficient weight to excuse the visits of the most intimate friends.... | |
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