The Classic and Connoisseur in Italy and Sicily: With an Appendix Containing an Abridged Translation of Lanzi's Storia Pittorica, Volume 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1835 |
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... ( continues the writer of the note ) , from the simple exaggeration to the downright mistatement , are so frequent as to induce a suspicion that he had either never visited the spots described , or had trusted to the fidelity of former ...
... ( continues the writer of the note ) , from the simple exaggeration to the downright mistatement , are so frequent as to induce a suspicion that he had either never visited the spots described , or had trusted to the fidelity of former ...
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... continues he - for he was very corpulent - is so much unquietness ; and so much of rest , by the same analogy , is so much of heaven . " A leaner personage would , probably , like Sterne , arrive at just the opposite conclusion ...
... continues he - for he was very corpulent - is so much unquietness ; and so much of rest , by the same analogy , is so much of heaven . " A leaner personage would , probably , like Sterne , arrive at just the opposite conclusion ...
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... continues the same , that the manners of the in- habitants do not change ; since there is nothing makes men sharper , or sets their hands and wits more at work , than want . " So conscious are the Genoese merchants of the failings of ...
... continues the same , that the manners of the in- habitants do not change ; since there is nothing makes men sharper , or sets their hands and wits more at work , than want . " So conscious are the Genoese merchants of the failings of ...
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... continues Addison , " we find the whole country cut into a multitude of particular kingdoms and • " Travellers , " says Forsyth , " have often applied the ' Vane Ligus , ' & c . to the Genoese character ; but the Patrias tentâsti lu ...
... continues Addison , " we find the whole country cut into a multitude of particular kingdoms and • " Travellers , " says Forsyth , " have often applied the ' Vane Ligus , ' & c . to the Genoese character ; but the Patrias tentâsti lu ...
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... continues Forsyth , " betray a thin , timid , ill - fed pencil ; they present corpses rather than men , sticks rather than trees , inflexible forms , flat surfaces , long extremities , raw tints , any thing but nature . As you follow ...
... continues Forsyth , " betray a thin , timid , ill - fed pencil ; they present corpses rather than men , sticks rather than trees , inflexible forms , flat surfaces , long extremities , raw tints , any thing but nature . As you follow ...
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Addison admired ancient Angelo antiquity Apennines appearance arches architecture baths beautiful Boccacio bronze built busts Cæsar called Capitoline Hill celebrated century character church Coliseum colour columns Corinthian order cupola Dante decorated Domenichino edifice exhibits feet figure Florence Forsyth frescos gallery Genoa Goldoni Gothic Greek head hills imitation inscription Isère Italian Italy Julius Cæsar Jupiter latter Livy look Madame de Staël magnificent Mathews modern Mont Mont Cenis mountain nature objects observes Ovid painter painting palace Palatine Hill pass perhaps Peter's picture piece pillars placed plain Pliny poet portico portrait Praxiteles Raphael relievos remains remark represented road Roman Rome round sarcophagus says scene Scipio sculpture seems Septimius Severus shew side Siena Sismondi spectators stands statue stone story style sublime supposed taste temple theatre thought tion tomb Trajan ture Tuscan Vallombrosa Vatican Venus verse villas Virgin walls whole
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Página 340 - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Página 1 - Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh ! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share.
Página 160 - The darksome pines that o'er yon rocks reclined Wave high, and murmur to the hollow wind, The wandering streams that shine between the hills, The grots that echo to the tinkling rills, The dying gales that pant upon the trees, The lakes that quiver to the curling breeze...
Página 419 - I remember very well my own disappointment when I first visited the Vatican ; but on confessing my feelings to a brother student, of whose ingenuousness I had a high opinion, he acknowledged that the works of Raphael had the same effect on him, or rather that they did not produce the effect which he expected.
Página 160 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Página 224 - Where the car climb'd the Capitol; far and wide Temple and tower went down, nor left a site: Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, 'here was, or is,
Página 217 - But Rome is as the desert, where we steer Stumbling o'er recollections: now we clap Our hands, and cry, " Eureka ! it is clear — " When but some false mirage of ruin rises near.
Página 140 - The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.
Página 378 - Jn allegorizing Nature, Guercino imitates the deep shades of night, the twilight grey, and the Irradiations of morning with all the magic of chiaroscuro; but his figures are too mortal for the region where they move. The work of Guido is more poetic, and luminous, and soft, and harmonious. Cupid, Aurora, Phoebus form a climax of beauty, and the Hours seem as light as the clouds on which they dance.
Página 287 - Such reflections check our regret for its ruin. As it now stands, the Coliseum is a striking image of Rome itself — decayed, vacant, serious, yet grand...