Memorials of a Tour on the Continent: To which are Added Miscellaneous PoemsW. Pickering, 1845 - 311 páginas |
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... whilst yet you may , An English matron , by an English fire , The last you are to see for many a day , Speeding light duties , lighter for such cheer . Folkestone , October , 1843 . SONNET . ROUEN . ERE is the holy gloom of 8 MEMORIALS ...
... whilst yet you may , An English matron , by an English fire , The last you are to see for many a day , Speeding light duties , lighter for such cheer . Folkestone , October , 1843 . SONNET . ROUEN . ERE is the holy gloom of 8 MEMORIALS ...
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... are not gloomy ; and you may see overhead a strip of blue sky broken by the palace cornices ; whilst in the side lanes the sunshine streams from above , PROSE AND VERSE . 21 Genoa Extract from Manuscript Journal Spezzia .........
... are not gloomy ; and you may see overhead a strip of blue sky broken by the palace cornices ; whilst in the side lanes the sunshine streams from above , PROSE AND VERSE . 21 Genoa Extract from Manuscript Journal Spezzia .........
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... Whilst these thy later traits amazed we scan , Proud Medici ! we reck not on the shrine Of Art what gems were laid by gift of thine . This change , for which degeneracy is no name , Astounds ; nor may the boldest tongue proclaim Aloud ...
... Whilst these thy later traits amazed we scan , Proud Medici ! we reck not on the shrine Of Art what gems were laid by gift of thine . This change , for which degeneracy is no name , Astounds ; nor may the boldest tongue proclaim Aloud ...
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... whilst thou didst sojourn In Naples , queen of that delicious Bay Where ocean , earth , air , heaven , make day and night Music together , that thou didst give birth To a dear girl , thine own sweet portraiture ; And there , thy sorrows ...
... whilst thou didst sojourn In Naples , queen of that delicious Bay Where ocean , earth , air , heaven , make day and night Music together , that thou didst give birth To a dear girl , thine own sweet portraiture ; And there , thy sorrows ...
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... whilst I to rights was my petticoats putting , They kept looking up , without minding their footing . At the top every way they desired me to look ; But I vow I was blinded with vapours and smoke ; And coughed , sneezed , and retched ...
... whilst I to rights was my petticoats putting , They kept looking up , without minding their footing . At the top every way they desired me to look ; But I vow I was blinded with vapours and smoke ; And coughed , sneezed , and retched ...
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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
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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...