A Yorkshireman's Trip to Rome in 1866 ...Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1868 - 198 páginas |
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amongst ancient Ancient Rome Ancona Angelo arch ascended beauty building Cæsar Capitoline Hill carriage cathedral celebrated centre character Chiavenna church Cicero Civita Vecchia columns companion Corso crowd Dewsbury diligence dirty distance dome door English entered entrance Eternal City feeling feet Florence flowers galleries Garibaldi gaze Genoa gentleman Gildersome glorious glory grand height high altar hills hundred interest interior Italian Italy journey lake leave Leeds Leghorn looking Madame de Staël magnificent Milan miles Mont Cenis monuments mountain nave occupied once ourselves palace Parian marble Paris passed persons Pisa pleasant priests principal proceeded railway reached relics Roman Rome ruins scene scenery sculptured seat seen side sight soldiers splendid square stands station steps stood street summit Switzerland temple thee thou tower town train travelling Turin Via Mala village walk walls white marble yards
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Página 46 - The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, Was of a mighty city — boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a boundless depth, Far sinking into splendour — without end ! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted ; here, serene pavilions bright, In avenues disposed ; there, towers begirt With battlements...
Página 132 - He heard it, but he heeded not, — his eyes Were with his heart, 'and that was far away. He recked not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Daci.an mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday! — All this rushed with his blood. — Shall he expire And unavenged? — Arise, ye Goths, and glut your ire!
Página 51 - Thou art the garden of the world, the home Of all Art yields, and Nature can decree ; Even in thy desert, what is like to thee ? Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility ; Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which cannot be defaced.
Página 29 - How much more, Lake of Beauty ! do we feel, In sweetly gliding o'er thy crystal sea, The wild glow of that not ungentle zeal, Which of the heirs of immortality Is proud, and makes the breath of glory real ! Diodati, Jnly, 1816.
Página 46 - Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted ; here, serene pavilions bright In avenues disposed : there towers begirt With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars — illumination of all gems...
Página 147 - But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone — with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook his former city, what could be, Of earthly structures, in his honour piled, Of a sublimer aspect ? Majesty, Power, Glory, Strength, and Beauty, all are aisled In this eternal ark of worship undefiled.
Página 173 - We wandered to the pine forest That skirts the Ocean's foam, The lightest wind was in its nest, The tempest in its home. The whispering waves were half asleep, The clouds were gone to play, And on the bosom of the deep, The smile of Heaven lay...
Página 136 - And, through her streets silent and desolate, Marching to slay, thought they saw Gods, not men ; The City, that, by temperance, fortitude, And love of glory, towered above the clouds, Then fell — but, falling, kept the highest seat, And in her loneliness, her pomp of woe, Where now she dwells, withdrawn into the wild, Still o'er the mind maintains, from age to age, Her empire undiminished.
Página 148 - The cupola is glorious. Viewed in its design, its altitude, or even its decoration ; viewed either as a whole or as a part, it enchants the eye, it satisfies the taste, it expands the soul. The very air seems to eat up all that is harsh or colossal, and leaves us nothing but the sublime to feast on : • — a sublime peculiar as the genius of the immortal architect, and comprehensible only on the spot.
Página 29 - Stael — Leman ! * these names are worthy of thy shore, Thy shore of names like these ! wert thou no more, Their memory thy remembrance would recall : To them thy banks were lovely as to all, But they have...