 | Henry Grattan Guinness - 1878 - 736 pages
...approach of the Lombards was often felt, and continually feared. . . . The Campagna of Rome was speedily reduced to the state of a dreary wilderness, in which the land is barren, the waters impure, and the air infectious. . . . Like Thebes, or Babylon, or Carthage, the name of Rome might... | |
 | Henry Grattan Guinness - 1879 - 756 pages
...approach of the Lombards was often felt, and continually feared. . . . The Campagna of Rome was speedily reduced to the state of a dreary wilderness, in which the land is barren, the waters impure, and the air infectious. . . . Like Thebes, or Babylon, or Carthage, the name of Rome might... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1880 - 730 pages
...annihilate the pleasures and interrupt the labors of a rural life ; and the Campagna of Rome was speedily reduced to the state of a dreary wilderness, in which...and the air is infectious. Curiosity and ambition no 87 Head the history of Paul Wamefrid ; particularly 1. iii. c. 16. Baronius rejects the praise, which... | |
 | 1882 - 472 pages
...was deprived of its leaves and branches, and the sapless trunk was left to wither in the ground." " Curiosity and ambition no longer attracted the nations to the Capital of the world ; while natural calamities, in quick succession, had contributed to the same result as despotism and... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1884 - 568 pages
...pleasures, and interrupt the labours of rural life ; and the Campayna of Home was spcedily reduced to Ike state of a dreary WILDERNESS, in which the land is barren, the waters are impure, and the air infectious. Curiosity and ambition no longer attracted the nations to the eapital of the world ; but... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1899 - 674 pages
...annihilate the pleasures and interrupt the labors of a rural life ; and the Campagna of Rome was speedily reduced to the state of a dreary wilderness, in which...stranger, he contemplated with horror the vacancy and solitmj© Of the city, and might be tempted to ask, Where is the SGBBte, and where are the people ?... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1899 - 616 pages
...annihilate the pleasures and interrupt the labors of a rural life; and the Campagna of Rome was speedily reduced to the state of a dreary wilderness, in which...of the world: but if chance or necessity directed " Read the history of Paul Warnefrid ; particularly 1. iii. c. 16. Baroniu* rejects the praise, which... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 570 pages
...annihilate the pleasures and interrupt the labours of a rural life ; and the Campagna of Rome was speedily reduced to the state of a dreary wilderness, in which...the waters are impure, and the air is infectious. Cariosity and ambition no longer attracted the nations to the capital of the world: but, if chance... | |
 | 1904 - 498 pages
...vegetation to decay in the hollows. In the well-known words of Gibbon, "The Campagna of Rome was speedily reduced to the state of a dreary wilderness in which...the waters are impure and the air is infectious." Fever, which probably always found a home in various parts of the district, now stalked everywhere,... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - 1905 - 368 pages
...vegetation to decay in the hollows. In the well-known words of Gibbon, ' the Campagna of Rome was speedily reduced to the state of a dreary wilderness in which...the waters are impure and the air is infectious.' Fever, which probably always found a home in various parts of the district, now stalked everywhere,... | |
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... and heard the lamentations of their brethren, who were coupled together like dogs, and dragged away into distant slavery beyond the sea and the mountains. Such incessant alarms must annihilate the pleasures and interrupt the labours of a rural life... 
