Naples: The City of Parthenope and Its Environs

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Estes and Lauriat, 1894 - 340 páginas

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Página 262 - God : praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints ; and for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
Página 281 - I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed.
Página 262 - And from thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli...
Página 2 - The ferocious character of the Barbarians was displayed in the funeral of a hero whose valor and fortune they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labor of a captive multitude, they forcibly diverted the course of the Busentinus, a small river that washes the walls of Consentia. The royal sepulchre, adorned with the splendid spoils and trophies of Rome, was constructed in the vacant...
Página 131 - Naples ! thou Heart of men which ever pantest Naked, beneath the lidless eye of heaven ! Elysian City which to calm enchantest The mutinous air and sea : they round thee, even As sleep round Love, are driven...
Página 187 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Página 185 - In the name of God and of Italy ; in the name of all the martyrs of the holy Italian cause who have fallen beneath foreign and domestic tyranny ; by the duties which bind me to the land wherein God has placed me, and to the brothers whom God has given me ; by the...
Página 274 - Epomeus) ; its lower parts are adorned with vines, and other fruits ; the middle affords pasture to flocks of goats and sheep, and the top is a sandy pointed rock, from which you have the finest prospect in the world, surveying, at one view, besides several pleasant islands lying at your feet, a tract of Italy about three hundred miles in length, from the promontory of Antium to the Cape of Palinurus...
Página 323 - MAI^Y an arched roof is bent Over the wave, But none like thine, from the firmament To the shells that at thy threshold lave. What name shall shadow thy rich-blue sheen; Violet, sapphire, or ultramarine, Beautiful cave ? Blue...
Página 2 - The royal sepulchre, adorned with the splendid spoils and trophies of Rome, was constructed in the vacant bed; the waters were then restored to their natural channel, and the secret spot, where the remains of Alaric had been deposited, was for ever concealed by the inhuman massacre of the prisoners who had been employed to execute the work" See The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol.

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