The Idler in Italy, Volume 3H. Colburn, 1840 |
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... bright , as if no graves were there to remind one of the brief space allotted to us on earth . There stood the pyramid of Caius Sextus , the sunbeams gleaming on its massive walls , whose funereal character seems to consecrate this ...
... bright , as if no graves were there to remind one of the brief space allotted to us on earth . There stood the pyramid of Caius Sextus , the sunbeams gleaming on its massive walls , whose funereal character seems to consecrate this ...
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... bright verdure that surrounds it , render it a pecu- liar ornament to the burial - ground ; while the con- trast between it and the massive pyramid in its vicinity , remind one of a delicate snowdrop , germing beneath a colossal oak ...
... bright verdure that surrounds it , render it a pecu- liar ornament to the burial - ground ; while the con- trast between it and the massive pyramid in its vicinity , remind one of a delicate snowdrop , germing beneath a colossal oak ...
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... bright displayed ? Art thou like her who captive made this heart , Then laughed to see it writhing ' neath the smart Of deep and cruel Love ? -Go , siren , go ! Thou art a fiend - like mocker of my woe ! Yet glorious , glorious ! were ...
... bright displayed ? Art thou like her who captive made this heart , Then laughed to see it writhing ' neath the smart Of deep and cruel Love ? -Go , siren , go ! Thou art a fiend - like mocker of my woe ! Yet glorious , glorious ! were ...
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... bright dreams upborne , How dread my waking fall - beneath thy scorn ! Ah ! when Hope whispered of that glorious day Which should the Poet's aching vigils pay , When loud applause should , like the clarion's voice , Bid nations in a new ...
... bright dreams upborne , How dread my waking fall - beneath thy scorn ! Ah ! when Hope whispered of that glorious day Which should the Poet's aching vigils pay , When loud applause should , like the clarion's voice , Bid nations in a new ...
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... bright as the sky that's o'er Its orange groves , its sunny slopes and dells , Its rocky caves where sparkle tiny wells , From ocean parted , when the gentle wind Waved the sea back , and kept the rills behind ? How oft does memory ...
... bright as the sky that's o'er Its orange groves , its sunny slopes and dells , Its rocky caves where sparkle tiny wells , From ocean parted , when the gentle wind Waved the sea back , and kept the rills behind ? How oft does memory ...
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Página 10 - To the broad column which rolls on, and shows More like the fountain of an infant sea Torn from the womb of mountains by the throes Of a new world, than only thus to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings, through the vale!
Página 9 - The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, LXX.
Página 199 - No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never!
Página 63 - Dante is asserted to have been written by the poet himself, during his last illness, and is as follows : — Jura monarchic, superos, Phlegetonta, lacusque Lustrando cecini voluerunt fata quousque : Sed quia pars cessit melioribus hospita castris, Auctoremque suum petiit felicior astris, Hie claudor Dantes patriis extorris ab oris, Quem genuit parvi Florentia mater amoris.
Página 142 - STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me. and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times when many a subject land Looked to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles ! II.
Página 142 - In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces are crumbling to the shore, And music meets not always now the ear : Those days are gone — but Beauty still is here. States fall, arts fade — but Nature doth not die, Nor yet forget how Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy ! IV.
Página 244 - In veder che ora innonorato resti ! Prezioso diaspro, agata, ed oro Foran debito fregio e appena degno Di rivestir si nobile tesoro. Ma no ; tomba fregiar d' uom eh' ebbe regno Vuoisi, e por gemme ove disdice alloro : Qui basta il nome di quel Divo Ingegno.
Página 94 - 1 sen, ma nel suo verde ancora Verginella s'asconde e vergognosa; O più tosto parei, che mortai cosa Non s'assomiglia a te, celeste aurora Che le campagne imperla ei monti indora Lucida in ciel sereno e rugiadosa.
Página 10 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
Página 9 - And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal April to the ground, Making it all one emerald : — how profound The gulf ! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which downward worn and rent With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent " To the broad, column which rolls on...