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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... cicerone speaks with the same lightness of the costume , expression , or colouring , as in criticising a neigh- bouring Venus or Bacchus . However high may be the con- ceptions of the artist , his pencil must necessarily degrade such a ...
... cicerone speaks with the same lightness of the costume , expression , or colouring , as in criticising a neigh- bouring Venus or Bacchus . However high may be the con- ceptions of the artist , his pencil must necessarily degrade such a ...
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... cicerone immediately put in requisition to show us the city . He conducted us first to the church of St. Dominica , which is a stately edifice , rich in marbles , and containing some good pictures . The ceiling and pavement are both ...
... cicerone immediately put in requisition to show us the city . He conducted us first to the church of St. Dominica , which is a stately edifice , rich in marbles , and containing some good pictures . The ceiling and pavement are both ...
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... cicerone all the while chattering his well conned tale . He pointed out , by way of episode , the site of the ancient port of Pisa , where perchance old Nestor land- ed , or Ulysses came to anchor for the night , in his erratic Voyage ...
... cicerone all the while chattering his well conned tale . He pointed out , by way of episode , the site of the ancient port of Pisa , where perchance old Nestor land- ed , or Ulysses came to anchor for the night , in his erratic Voyage ...
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... cicerone strained his lungs , and found the reverberations of his voice to be distinctly heard for ten seconds . The Campo Santo , or Cemetery , is the last , though in no respect the least of this celebrated group of edifices . It is a ...
... cicerone strained his lungs , and found the reverberations of his voice to be distinctly heard for ten seconds . The Campo Santo , or Cemetery , is the last , though in no respect the least of this celebrated group of edifices . It is a ...
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... of Night and Day , and another with Dawn and Twilight . Now who , without the aid of a cicerone at his elbow , would be able to recognize 1 1 2 these allegorical personages ? I was more pleased with a 108 LETTERS FROM EUROPE .
... of Night and Day , and another with Dawn and Twilight . Now who , without the aid of a cicerone at his elbow , would be able to recognize 1 1 2 these allegorical personages ? I was more pleased with a 108 LETTERS FROM EUROPE .
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Letters from Europe: Comprising the Journal of a Tour Through ..., Volume 2 Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter Visualização integral - 1829 |
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Letters from Europe: Comprising the Journal of a Tour Through ..., Volume 2 Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter Visualização integral - 1827 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
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...