Letters from Europe: Comprising the Journal of a Tour Through Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Italy, and Switzerland, in the Years 1825,' 26,and '27, Volume 2C. &. H. Carvil, 1829 |
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... bas- relief and embossed with gold . It is a splendid sepulchre , rather imperial than republican in its character , and destitute of that simplicity , which one would wish to find in every thing connected with such a man . He shares a ...
... bas- relief and embossed with gold . It is a splendid sepulchre , rather imperial than republican in its character , and destitute of that simplicity , which one would wish to find in every thing connected with such a man . He shares a ...
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... bas- relief sacred scenes from the scriptures . The inside is as rich and as complex in its ornaments , as the exterior . Double aisles , formed by four rows of granite co- lumns , of the Corinthian order , extend in long perspective on ...
... bas- relief sacred scenes from the scriptures . The inside is as rich and as complex in its ornaments , as the exterior . Double aisles , formed by four rows of granite co- lumns , of the Corinthian order , extend in long perspective on ...
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... bas - relief , portray- ing the leading events in the life of the Saviour . Among the less interesting curiosities of the building , is an unusu- ally perfect echo , together with a whispering gallery . I held my watch , while the ...
... bas - relief , portray- ing the leading events in the life of the Saviour . Among the less interesting curiosities of the building , is an unusu- ally perfect echo , together with a whispering gallery . I held my watch , while the ...
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... bas - relief of exquisite work- manship , and appropriately representing the principal events in the life of St. John the Baptist . What shall we say of two massive iron chains , suspended by rings from the antique pillars on each side ...
... bas - relief of exquisite work- manship , and appropriately representing the principal events in the life of St. John the Baptist . What shall we say of two massive iron chains , suspended by rings from the antique pillars on each side ...
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... bas - relief , and weeping for the loss of a favourite son . Is it possible for a design to express more simplicity or greater pathos ? There is however one defect so glaring as to strike every spectator , but which was not the fault of ...
... bas - relief , and weeping for the loss of a favourite son . Is it possible for a design to express more simplicity or greater pathos ? There is however one defect so glaring as to strike every spectator , but which was not the fault of ...
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Alps altar ancient Angelo antique Apennines appeared Appian arch Arno artist bank bas-relief beautiful borders bridge brow buildings Capitoline Hill Cathedral celebrated chapel charming church cicerone cliffs coach colossal cross descended distance Doric order edifice embellishments erected excursion exhibiting extends Florence front gallery garden gate Genoa Genoese grandeur half height Herculaneum hills hundred feet Italian Italy lake latter lofty look magnificent Mantua marble miles Monte monuments morning mountains Naples o'clock occupied ornaments palace Parian marble passed pavement picture picturesque pillars Pisa poet Pompeii Pontine Marshes Pope porphyry present rich rising road rocks Roman Rome round ruins sarcophagus scene scenery seated seen shaded shore shrine side spacious splendid splendour stands statues streets style summit taste temple terrace theatre Tiber tion tomb Toulon tower town traveller Tuscany vale village Virgil walk walls whole
Passagens conhecidas
Página 121 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Página 2 - In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States. entitled, " an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an act, entitled, " an act, supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Página 280 - Blessed art thou, Simon Bar Jona, because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven. And I say to thee, that thou art Peter; and upon this rock will I build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Página 125 - His legions, angel forms, who lay entranced, Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades, High overarched, embower...
Página 2 - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Página 179 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Página 346 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, 30 And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.
Página 163 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Página 145 - Byron has in three lines presented an exact image of this hill, which — " from out the plain Heaves, like a long swept wave about to break, And on the curl hangs pausing.
Página 390 - By turning the latter round to the right or to the left, as the case may be...