 | Sir William Chambers, Joseph Gwilt - 1825 - 378 pagina’s
...stock ; and we may avail ourselves of their labours, to facilitate, or received a liberal education. The buildings of the new city were executed by such...artificers as the reign of Constantine could afford." " To revive the genius of Phidias and Lysippus surpassed indeed the power of a Roman emperor." Ibid.... | |
 | Joseph Gwilt - 1842 - 1114 pagina’s
...buildings of the new city," observes Gibbon, " were executed by such artificers as the reign of Constantino could afford ; but they were decorated by the hands...indeed, the power of a Roman emperor ; but the immortal productions which they had bequeathed to posterity were exposed without defence to the rapacious vanity... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 pagina’s
...as well as numbers of his architects bore a very unequal proportion to the greatness of his design. The buildings of the new city were executed by such...indeed the power of a Roman emperor ; but the immortal productions which they had bequeathed to posterity were exposed without defence to the rapacious vanity... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 466 pagina’s
...with incessant toil ; but the impatience of Constantino soon discovered that, in the decline of the arts, the skill as well as numbers of his architects...city were executed by such artificers as the reign of Constantino could afford ; but they were decorated by the hands of the most celebrated masters of the... | |
 | Stephen Watson Fullom - 1858 - 356 pagina’s
...to the greatness of his designs. . . . The buildings of the new city were erected by such architects as the reign of Constantine could afford, but they...indeed, the power of a Roman emperor ; but the immortal productions which they had bequeathed to posterity, were exposed without defence to the rapacious vanity... | |
 | Francis Fulford (bp. of Montreal.) - 1859 - 484 pagina’s
...to the greatness of his designs. . . . The buildings of the new city were erected by such architects as the reign of Constantine could afford, but they...indeed, the power of a Roman emperor ; but the immortal productions which they had bequeathed to posterity, were exposed without defence to the rapacious vanity... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 pagina’s
...well as numbers of his architects bore a very unequal proportion to the greatness of his designs.. ..The buildings of the new city were executed by such...of Phidias and Lysippus, surpassed indeed the power qf a Roman emperor ; but the immortal productions which they had bequeathed to posterity were exposed... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1876 - 592 pagina’s
...as numbers of his architects bore a very unequal proportion to the greatness of his designs....The buildings of the new city were executed by such artificers...indeed the power of a Roman emperor ; but the immortal productions which they had bequeathed to posterity were exposed without defence to the rapacious vanity... | |
 | De Robigne Mortimer Bennett - 1878 - 1146 pagina’s
...buildings of the new city were executed by the best artificers that imperial liberality could procure, and were decorated by the hands of the most celebrated masters of the age of Pericles and Alexander. Unable to revive the genius of Phidias and Lysippus, his rapacious vanity prompted him to appropriate... | |
 | James Cotter Morison - 1878 - 216 pagina’s
...as the number of his architects bore a very unequal proportion to the greatness of his design. . . The buildings of the new city were executed by such artificers as the age of Constantine could afford, but they were decorated by the hands of the most celebrated masters... | |
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The buildings of the new city were executed by such artificers as the reign of Constantine could afford ; but they were decorated by the hands of the most celebrated masters of the age of Pericles and Alexander. To revive the genius of Phidias and Lysippus... 
