 It was the boast of Augustus — it formed part of the glare in which the perfidies of his earlier years were lost — that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble ; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and to which the present reign also has its...  Autobiography and Reminiscences - Page 319by David Patterson Dyer - 1922 - 357 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1862 - 738 pages
...enlarged shape than the reports of the daily papers. 232 THE NEW METROPOLITAN POLICE. [1828. — " It was the boast of Augustus — it formed part of...perfidies of his earlier years were lost — that he found Eome of brick, and left it of marble ; a- praise not unworthy a great prince, and to which the present... | |
 | John Wilson - Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine - 1863 - 514 pages
...mighty a work shall he accomplished. It was the boast of Augustus — it formed part of the lustre in which the perfidies of his earlier years were lost...that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble ; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and to which the present reign [of G.-orge IV.] is not without... | |
 | Robert Raikes Raymond - Recitations - 1864 - 530 pages
...truth, sceptres are chiefly to be envied for that they bestow the power of thus conquering and ruling. It was the boast of Augustus — it formed part of...that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble ; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and to which the present reign has its claims also. But how... | |
 | Philip Smith - History, Ancient - 1864 - 1096 pages
...Augustus, that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble, is described by our modern Cicero as " a part of the glare in which the perfidies of his earlier years were lost." The great BC 35.] OCTAVIA AND ANTONY. 289 epoch of this transformation was the aadileship of Agrippa,... | |
 | 1886 - 504 pages
...Lord Brougham's celebrated speech on Law Reform, delivered In 1828, the following passage occurs : " It was the boast of Augustus— it formed part of...that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble ; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and to which the present reign has also Its claim?. Bat how... | |
 | John McGilchrist - Statesmen - 1868 - 274 pages
...sceptres are most chiefly to be envied for that they bestow tha power of thug conquering and thus ruling. It was the boast of Augustus — it formed part of...perfidies of his earlier years were lost — that he found Borne of brick and left it of marble ; a praise not unworthy of a great prince, and to which the present... | |
 | Law - 1868 - 384 pages
...oratory. The peroration is magnificent. We regret that we have only room for the following extract. " It was the boast of Augustus — it formed part of...perfidies of his earlier years were lost — that be found Rome of brick, and left it of marble; a pride not unworthy a great prince, and to which the... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1869 - 654 pages
...sceptres are most chiefly to be envied for that they bestow the power of thus conquering, and ruling thus. It was the boast of Augustus — it formed part of...that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble ; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and to which the present reign also has its claims. But how... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1869 - 628 pages
...sceptres are most chiefly to be envied for that they bestow the power of thus conquering, and ruling thus. It was the boast of Augustus — it formed part of...that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and to which the present reign also has its claims. But how much... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1869 - 724 pages
...are most c-hiefly to be envied for that they bestow the power of thus conquering, and ruling thus. It was the boast of Augustus — it formed part of...perfidies of his earlier years were lost — that he found Rorne of brick, and left it of marble ; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and to which the present... | |
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