 | 1836 - 706 pages
...this stupendous circle of ruinous walls, and arches, and grand terraces of masonry, rising one abovr another, you stand upon the arena of the old gladiatorial...thousand Romans, assembled to witness these bloody spectacle». What a multitude and mighty array of human beings, and how little do we know in modern... | |
 | 1836 - 676 pages
...most impressive character. When you enter within this stupendous circle of ruinous walls, and arches, and grand terraces of masonry, rising one above another,...to the vast amphitheatre, you meet, in imagination, tne eyes of a hundred thousand Romans, assembled to witness these bloody spectacles. What a multitude... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pages
...most impressive character. When you enter within this stupendous circle of ruinous walls and arches, and grand terraces of masonry, rising one above another,...arena of the old gladiatorial combats and Christian martyrdom^; and as you lift your eyes to the vast amphitheater, you meet, in imagination, the eyes... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 pages
...most impressive character. When you cuter within this stupendous circle of ruinous walls and arches, and grand terraces of masonry, rising one above another,...martyrdoms; and as you lift your eyes to the vast amphitheater, you moot, in imagination, the eyes of a hundred thousand Romans, assembled to witness... | |
 | 1866 - 408 pages
...most impressive character. When you enter within this stupendous circle of ruinous walls and arches, and grand terraces of masonry rising one above another,...meet, in imagination, the eyes of a hundred thousand Komans, assembled to witness these bloody spectacles. What a multitude and mighty array of human beings... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 pages
...most impressive character. When you* enter within this stupendous circle of ruinous walls and arches, and grand terraces of masonry, rising one above another,...martyrdoms ; and as you lift your eyes to the vast amphitheater, you meet, in imagination, the eyes of a hundred thousand Romans, assembled to witness... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 pages
...most impressive character. When you enter within this stupendous circle of ruinous walls and arches, and grand terraces of masonry, rising one above another,...martyrdoms ; and as you lift your eyes to the vast amphitheater, you meet, in imagination, the eyes of a hundred thousand Romans, assembled to witness... | |
 | Stephen Bromley McCracken - 1876 - 714 pages
...most impressive character. When you enter within this stupendous circle of ruinous walls and arches, and grand terraces of masonry, rising one above another,...martyrdoms; and as you lift your eyes to the vast amphitheater, you meet, in imagination, the eyes of a hundred thousand Romans, assembled to witness... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1921 - 506 pages
...most impressive character. When you enter within this stupendous circle of ruinous walls and arches, and grand terraces of masonry, rising one above another,...arena of the old gladiatorial combats and Christian martyrdom; and as you lift your eyes to the vast amphitheater, you meet, in imagination, the eyes of... | |
 | John Izard Middleton, Lynn Robertson - 1997 - 236 pages
...most impressive character. When you enter within this stupendous circle of ruinous walls, and arches, and grand terraces of masonry, rising one above another,...Romans, assembled to witness these bloody spectacles. . . . The seats have long since disappeared; and grass overgrows the spots where the pride, and power,... | |
| |
I WENT to see the Colise'um by moonlight. It is the monarch, the majesty of all ruins ; there is nothing like it. All the associations of the place, too, give it the most impressive character. When you* enter within this stupendous circle of ruinous walls... 
