Memorials of a Tour on the Continent: To which are Added Miscellaneous PoemsW. Pickering, 1845 - 311 páginas |
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... golden sands Far down , with fleeting bands of shade , with light , Soft light , between ! Thus not alone do things Opake and rigid , but transparent things , Endowed with perfect laxity of atoms , Fling shadows from them . ' Tis the ...
... golden sands Far down , with fleeting bands of shade , with light , Soft light , between ! Thus not alone do things Opake and rigid , but transparent things , Endowed with perfect laxity of atoms , Fling shadows from them . ' Tis the ...
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... golden urn , Repose at Rome , by Cestius ' pyramid , In a sweet spot where earliest violets blow , Which you , I hope , will visit soon with me . But the sun sinks apace ; and in the east Mysteriously the snowy Apennines , With ...
... golden urn , Repose at Rome , by Cestius ' pyramid , In a sweet spot where earliest violets blow , Which you , I hope , will visit soon with me . But the sun sinks apace ; and in the east Mysteriously the snowy Apennines , With ...
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... golden as the sun itself ; so dif- ferent from the tint of the lichens and weather - stains of a more northern climate ; and the variations of the shadowy effect of their open pillar - work at all hours of the day relieve the dreariness ...
... golden as the sun itself ; so dif- ferent from the tint of the lichens and weather - stains of a more northern climate ; and the variations of the shadowy effect of their open pillar - work at all hours of the day relieve the dreariness ...
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... shore . You may mount the high terrace , But the breezes are laid That erst floated the signal Of golden brocade Of the dark girl impatient Her true love to greet PROSE AND VERSE . 69 The Ziza, or Emir's Palace Segestum.
... shore . You may mount the high terrace , But the breezes are laid That erst floated the signal Of golden brocade Of the dark girl impatient Her true love to greet PROSE AND VERSE . 69 The Ziza, or Emir's Palace Segestum.
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... golden lyres ? Whither hath flown the enthusiastic dream ? What nymphs are these that vex the classic rill , Unceasing in their labour , in attire Unfeminine , barelegged , a sordid quire Of old and young , in accent wild and shrill ...
... golden lyres ? Whither hath flown the enthusiastic dream ? What nymphs are these that vex the classic rill , Unceasing in their labour , in attire Unfeminine , barelegged , a sordid quire Of old and young , in accent wild and shrill ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
ancient Apennine appear ascent beauty beneath BETCHWORTH breath bright Casa del Bosco Catania Chamonix child cliff cloud Col du Géant cold colour Courmayeur crevasses Daguerrotype dark dear descended Devouassoud earth effect Etna EXTRACT FROM MANUSCRIPT fire Florence flowers fresco gaze Géant Genevieve glacier glorious golden grace guides hand hast heard heart heaven height hills hour hues John Herschel La Verna lava light look MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL marble Maurice Mont Blanc Monte Nuovo morning mountain Naples Nature night Nisida Note o'clock o'er ocean once painting passed picture Pisa river Mole rocks round scene scenery sculpture serac shade shore sight slope snow song SONNET soul sound spirit stars statue stone stood stream summit sweet sweet oblivion thee thine things thou thoughts truth turn twas vapours Venice voice walk weather whilst wild wind wing
Passagens conhecidas
Página 175 - You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Página 127 - Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken — The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!
Página 175 - But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive...
Página 182 - ... che nella capitale; tutte queste doti vere ed uniche di quel fortunato e libero paese, mi rapirono...
Página 158 - ... if what has happened in the case of sculpture, had likewise happened in regard to their paintings, and we had the good fortune to possess what the ancients themselves esteemed their master-pieces, I have no doubt but we should find their figures as correctly drawn as the Laocoon, and probably...
Página 158 - FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his goodness to give you safe deliverance, and hath preserved you in the great danger...
Página 170 - ... virginis est verae facies, quam vivere credas et, si non obstet reverentia, velle moveri: ars adeo latet arte sua. miratur et haurit pectore Pygmalion simulati corporis ignes.
Página 182 - ... in queste tante diramazioni della pubblica felicità, provenienti dal miglior governo. Onde, benché io allora non ne studiassi profondamente la costituzione, madre di tanta prosperità, ne seppi però abbastanza osservare e valutare gli effetti divini.
Página 174 - Sir, the year growing ancient, — Not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth Of trembling winter, — the fairest flowers o...
Página 133 - ... scramble up to the base of a small column of ice, that communicated with a sort of platform, on which there was firm, though scanty standing room, and whence the bridge might be immediately reached. The ice column looked insecure ; and the more so, from the quantity of brilliantly white fresh-fallen snow that had lodged against it. Its firmness, however, was put to the proof by blows with an ice pole, and it was partially cleared of the fresh snow. Devouassoud then cautiously cut steps round...