The Italian Sketch BookKey & Biddle, 1835 - 216 páginas |
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... sadness , the torch of life ; or pause in admiration of the lions of Canova surmounting the tomb of Pope Clement XIII . As the set- ting sun shone gorgeously through the glory , over the main altar , and lingered upon the gilded cor ...
... sadness , the torch of life ; or pause in admiration of the lions of Canova surmounting the tomb of Pope Clement XIII . As the set- ting sun shone gorgeously through the glory , over the main altar , and lingered upon the gilded cor ...
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... sadness in the very air of rooms that bore the name , and shone with the embodied talent of the beloved and early dead , which forced itself irresistibly upon the mind , and tinged with mournfulness the gratified thoughts . ་ But it is ...
... sadness in the very air of rooms that bore the name , and shone with the embodied talent of the beloved and early dead , which forced itself irresistibly upon the mind , and tinged with mournfulness the gratified thoughts . ་ But it is ...
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... sadness usually observable in scenes , the prominent features of which are anti- quated . Yet , though the sterner shades of the pic- ture were thus mellowed , its solemn lesson was as forcibly imparted . 66 Tully was not so eloquent as ...
... sadness usually observable in scenes , the prominent features of which are anti- quated . Yet , though the sterner shades of the pic- ture were thus mellowed , its solemn lesson was as forcibly imparted . 66 Tully was not so eloquent as ...
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... sadness and love . There may be here excited less of the sublime in association , induced by the distance of the retrospect with which the stricken and lone memorials of extinct national greatness are pondered ; but there is room for ...
... sadness and love . There may be here excited less of the sublime in association , induced by the distance of the retrospect with which the stricken and lone memorials of extinct national greatness are pondered ; but there is room for ...
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... sadness . Through- out all that art or antiquity here unfolds , he feels as if wandering in a beautiful garden , once blest with a presence which shall know it no more . He feels , in his inmost soul , that it was this non - existent ob ...
... sadness . Through- out all that art or antiquity here unfolds , he feels as if wandering in a beautiful garden , once blest with a presence which shall know it no more . He feels , in his inmost soul , that it was this non - existent ob ...
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Página 38 - There is a stern round tower of other days, Firm as a fortress, with its fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland of eternity, where wave The green leaves over all by time o'erthrown ; — What was this tower of strength ? within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so hid ? — A woman's grave.
Página 13 - The Niobe of nations, — there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios...
Página 107 - I loved her from my boyhood — she to me Was as a fairy city of the heart, Rising like water.columns from the sea, Of joy the sojourn, and of wealth the mart ; And Otway, Radcliffe, Schiller, Shakspeare's art, Had stamp'd her image in me...
Página iii - Italia! oh Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became A funeral dower of present woes and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Oh, God! that thou wert in thy nakedness Less lovely or more powerful, and couldst claim Thy right, and awe the robbers back, who press To shed thy blood, and drink the tears of thy distress...
Página 171 - And solemn smokes, like altars of the world. Thrice beautiful! — to that delightful spot Carry our married hearts, and be all pain forgot. There Art, too, shows, when Nature's beauty palls, Her sculptured marbles, and her pictured walls ; And there are forms in which they both conspire To whisper themes that know not how to tire ; The speaking ruins in that gentle clime Have but been hallow'd by the hand of Time, And each can mutely prompt some thought of flame: The meanest stone is not without...
Página 155 - PLEASURE, that comes unlooked-for, is thrice welcome; And, if it stir the heart, if aught be there, That may hereafter in a thoughtful hour Wake but a sigh, 'tis treasured up among The things most precious ! and the day it came Is noted as a white day in our lives.