 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1883 - 876 pages
...latest, and in some respects the best, of the historians of the invasions of Italy, eloquently says, ' Not even the Colosseum of Vespasian or the Pantheon...guard-house on some remote and solitary Northumbrian moor.' Of such durable use has been that ill-remembered Roman embankment, which for ages and generations... | |
 | John William Edward Conybeare - Great Britain - 1903 - 296 pages
...233 The name Cilurnum may be connected with this wealth of water. In modern Welsh celurn = caldron. Vespasian or the Pantheon of Agrippa impresses the...of the majestic strength of Rome so forcibly " as works like this, merely to secure the passage of a "little British stream, unknown to the majority... | |
 | Urquhart Atwell Forbes, Arnold C. Burmester - Great Britain - 1904 - 298 pages
...by the author of ' Italy and her Invaders,' ' not even the Colisseum of Vespasian or the Parthenon of Agrippa impresses the mind with a sense of the...stream unknown to the majority even of Englishmen, or of the square and solid blocks of an imperial guard-house on some remote and solitary Northumbrian... | |
 | College student newspapers and periodicals - 1888 - 536 pages
...the Roman Empire traced by the mighty hands of Trajau, Uadrian, and Antoninus. Not even the Coliseum of Vespasian or the Pantheon of Agrippa impresses...guard-house on some remote and solitary Northumbrian moor." The western end of the bridge is almost all destroyed, and we did not see the three water piers,... | |
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Coliseum of Vespasian or the Pantheon of Agrippa impresses the mind with a sense of the majestic strength of Rome so forcibly as the massive bulwarks of a bridge erected by Hadrian's cohorts over some little British stream unknown to the majority even... 