 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1807 - 472 pages
...but for the elegant manner in which they are blended and combined. We are told that, when Craesus, king of Lydia, was seated on his throne, adorned with royal magnificence and state, he asked Solon, " If he ever beheld anything so fine?" The Greek philosopher, no way moved by... | |
 | John Lawrence - 1816 - 284 pages
...variety, and sober majesty of its colours, and for the beautiful symmetry of its form ; and when Crcesus king of Lydia was seated on his throne, adorned with...Eastern splendour, it is recorded that, he asked Solon whe* ther he had ever before beheld so much finery. The Greek philosopher replied, he had seen the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 470 pages
...so glossy, so bright, or points so finely blending into each other. We are told that when Croesus, king of Lydia, was seated on his throne, adorned with royal magnificence, and all the barbarous pomp of eastern splendour, he asked Solon if he had ever beheld any thing so fine ! The Greek... | |
 | John Lawrence - 1822 - 350 pages
...variety, and sober majesty of its colours, and for the beautiful symmetry of its form ; and when Croesus, king of Lydia, was seated on his throne, adorned with...magnificence, and all the blazing pomp of Eastern spleiir dour, it is recorded that he asked Solon whether he had ever before beheld so much finery.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1828 - 612 pages
...so glossy, so bright, or points so finely blending into each other. We are told that when Croesus, king of Lydia, was seated on his throne, adorned with royal magnificence, and all the barbarous pomp of eastern splendour, he asked Solon if he had ever beheld any thing so fine ? The Greek... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 522 pages
...so glossy, so bright, or points so finely blending into each other. We are told that when Croesus, king of Lydia, was seated on his throne, adorned with royal magnificence, and all the barbarous pomp of eastern splendour, he asked Solon if he had ever beheld any thing so fine ? The Greek... | |
 | 1834 - 700 pages
...thing so glossy, so bright, or points so finely blending into each other. We are told that when CKESUS, king of Lydia, was seated on his throne, adorned with royal magnificence, and all the barbarous pomp of eastern splendor, he asked Solon if he bad ever beheld anything so fine? The Greek... | |
 | John Lawrence - 1837 - 464 pages
...variety, and «sober majesty of its colors, and for the beautiful symmetry of its form ; and when Croesus, king of Lydia, was seated on his throne, adorned with royal magnificence and all the bla/ing pomp of Eastern 114 AGE WILD. splendor, it is recorded that he asked Solon, if he had ever... | |
 | John Peter Elven - 1838 - 286 pages
...takes its name. Next to the peacock, this is the most beautiful of birds. It is said, when Croesus, King of Lydia, was seated on his throne, adorned with royal magnificence, he asked Solon, if he ever beheld any thing so fine and beautiful. The Greek philosopher, nowise moved... | |
 | James Joseph Nolan - 1850 - 208 pages
...banks of the Phasis, a river in Chalchis, now the Rioni, in Asia Minor. We are told, that when Croesus, King of Lydia, was seated on his throne, adorned with royal magnificence, and all the barbarous pomp of eastern splendour, he asked Solon had he ever beheld anything so fine ! The Greek... | |
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Solon if he had ever beheld any thing so fine ! The Greek philosopher, no way moved by the objects before him, or taking a pride in his native simplicity, replied, that after having seen the beautiful plumage of the pheasant, he could be astonished at... 
