| Patrick Brydone - 1774 - 412 Seiten
...Dionyfms is no lefs a monument of the ingenuity and magnificence, than of the cruelty of that tyrant. It is a huge cavern cut out of the hard rock, in the form of the human ear. The perpendicular height of it is about 80 feet, and the length of this enormous ear is not lefs than... | |
| Patrick Brydone - 1780 - 258 Seiten
...Dionyfius is no lefs a monument of the ingenuity and magnificence, than of the cruelty of that tyrant. It is a huge cavern cut out of the hard rock, in the form of the human ear. The perpendicular height of it is about 80 feet, and the length of this enormous ear is not lefs than... | |
| Alexander Adam - 1802 - 914 Seiten
...fubterraneous garden filled with a great variety of the finelt flirubs and fruit trees, which bear with teil luxuriance. The Ear of Dionyfius, as Mr. Brydone informs...focus, which was called the Tympanum, and communicated with a fmall apartment where the tyrant uftrd to conceal himfelf, and thus overhear what was f.»id... | |
| Liber - 1809 - 372 Seiten
...Syracuse is no less a monument of the ingenuity and magnificence, than of the cruelty of that tyrant. It is a huge cavern cut out of the hard rock, in the form of the human tar. The perpendicular of it is about SO feet, and the length of this enormous ear is not less than... | |
| John Alonzo Clark - 1840 - 588 Seiten
...Dionysius, no • less a monument of the ingenuity and magnificence, than of the cruelty of that tyrant. It is a huge cavern, cut out of the hard rock, in the form of the human ear ; to reach which, you have to pass through an immense stone quarry deeply excavated, and whence the... | |
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