 | Conyers Middleton - Rome - 1741 - 476 pages
...BUT there cannot be a better proof of the delightfulnefs of the place, than that it is now poffefled by a Convent of Monks, and called the Villa of St. Dominic [f]. Strange revolution ! to fee B 3 Cicero's [a] Ad Att, a. xi. Odyff. [o] DC Legib. 2. i, «, j.... | |
 | Conyers Middleton - 1767 - 498 pages
...BUT there cannot be a better proof of the delightfulnefs of the place, than that it is now poffefled by a Convent of Monks, and called the Villa of St. Dominic [p~\. Strange revolution ! to fee • Cicero's [»} Ad Alt. 2. xi. Odyff. [»] De Legib. z. i, 2, 3.... | |
 | Conyers Middleton - Authors, Latin - 1790 - 450 pages
...But there cannot be a better proof of the delightfulnefs of the place, than that it is now pot fefled by a Convent of Monks , and called the Villa <;-.. of St. Dominic". Strange revolution! to fee '* Cicero's porticoes converted to Monkifh cloifters ! the feat of the moft refined reafon, wit,... | |
 | Robert Jephson - Epic poetry, English - 1794 - 382 pages
...o'erthrown, 1 Jampridem Syrus in Tiberim defluxit Orontes. Juv. Sat. iii. 4 Cicero's villa near Arpinum is now possessed by a convent of monks, and called the villa of St. Dominick ; upon which Dr. Middleton makes the following spirited observation : " What a pleasure must... | |
 | Biography - 1798 - 604 pages
...the place. But there cannot be a better proof of Its delightfulnefs, than that it is now poflefled by a convent of monks, and called the Villa of St. Dominic. Upon which the fine writer of his life could not forbear crying out, " Strange revolution ! to fee... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 542 pages
...cannot be a better proof of its delightfulness, than that it was afterwards and in very modern times possessed by a convent of monks, and called the Villa of St. Dominic. He was educated at Rome with his cousins, the young Aculeos, by a method approved and directed by L.... | |
 | Conyers Middleton - 1818 - 484 pages
...handsome and spacious habitation. * Ad Alt. 2. xi. Odyss. 9. 27. t De Legib. 2. 1, 2, 3. But there cannot be a better proof of the delightfulness of the place,...by a convent of Monks, and called the Villa of St. Dominick.* Strange revolution ! to see Cicero's porticos converted to Monkish cloisters ! the seat... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 804 pages
...his birth, says that Atticus was charmed with it. ' But there cannot be a better proof,' adds he, ' of the delightfulness of the place, than that it '...possessed by a convent of Monks, and called The Villa ' nf Si. Dominic. Strange revolution, to see Cicero's porticos • converted to Monkish cloisters !... | |
 | Harriet Morton (author of Protestant vigils.) - 1829 - 626 pages
...river Liris, make it beautiful. The house was at first small, but was afterwards rendered spacious. It is now possessed by a convent of monks, and called " the Villa of St. Dominic." The villa where Marius was lxirn, and which probably he sought in his calamity, was about twelve miles... | |
 | Conyers Middleton - Authors, Latin - 1837 - 802 pages
...enlarged it into a handsome spacious habitation. But there cannot be a better proof of the delightful nes* the place, than that it is now possessed by a convent of moi and called the Villa of St. Dominic*. Strange revolution ! see Cicero's porticos converted to monkish... | |
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But there cannot be a better proof of the delightfulness of the place, than that it is now possessed by a convent of Monks, and called the Villa of St. Dominick.* Strange revolution ! to see Cicero's porticos converted to Monkish cloisters ! the seat... 
