The Seven HillsLee and Shepard, 1873 - 331 páginas |
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... length entered . Removing the heavy cur- tain of the doorway , they passed inside . There was a general blaze of splendor which dazzled their eyes - many - colored marbles in the pave- ment , walls of polished stones , roof of shining.
... length entered . Removing the heavy cur- tain of the doorway , they passed inside . There was a general blaze of splendor which dazzled their eyes - many - colored marbles in the pave- ment , walls of polished stones , roof of shining.
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James De Mille. ment , walls of polished stones , roof of shining , gold- en hue ; yet there was not that overpowering vast- ness which they had confidently anticipated . And therefore the disappointment which the first glimpse had ...
James De Mille. ment , walls of polished stones , roof of shining , gold- en hue ; yet there was not that overpowering vast- ness which they had confidently anticipated . And therefore the disappointment which the first glimpse had ...
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... walls , and could not recall any church in America , which he had seen , over which this might not be placed like an ex- tinguisher . There it rose - the giant creation of the giant spirit of Michael Angelo - the " vast and wondrous ...
... walls , and could not recall any church in America , which he had seen , over which this might not be placed like an ex- tinguisher . There it rose - the giant creation of the giant spirit of Michael Angelo - the " vast and wondrous ...
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... walls , repaired by Aurelian , by Belisarius , by Leo IV . , and by others in later ages ? or were they the walls reared by Leo IV . , as a bulwark against the roving Saracens , when he enclosed the suburb beyond the Tiber , and formed ...
... walls , repaired by Aurelian , by Belisarius , by Leo IV . , and by others in later ages ? or were they the walls reared by Leo IV . , as a bulwark against the roving Saracens , when he enclosed the suburb beyond the Tiber , and formed ...
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... wall , and shouted out after them , -- " Confound you , you young imps ! what do you mean by that , for instance ? " He was an Englishman . They next dashed against a man who evaded them with difficulty . " Sac - r - r - r - r - r - r ...
... wall , and shouted out after them , -- " Confound you , you young imps ! what do you mean by that , for instance ? " He was an Englishman . They next dashed against a man who evaded them with difficulty . " Sac - r - r - r - r - r - r ...
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Página 289 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd 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 hail'd the wretch who won.
Página 80 - Arches on arches ! as it were that Rome, Collecting the chief trophies of her line, Would build up all her triumphs in one dome, Her Coliseum stands ; the moonbeams shine As 'twere its natural torches, for divine Should be the light which streams here, to illume This long-explored but still exhaustless mine Of contemplation ; and the azure gloom Of an Italian night, where the deep skies assume...
Página 279 - Or, turning to the Vatican, go see Laocoon's torture dignifying pain — A father's love and mortal's agony With an immortal's patience blending : — vain The struggle ; vain, against the coiling strain And gripe, and deepening of the dragon's grasp, The old man's clench ; the long envenom'd chain Rivets the living links, — the enormous asp Enforces pang on pang, and stifles gasp on gasp.
Página 280 - Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, The God of life, and poesy, and light — The Sun in human limbs arrayed, and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight ; The shaft hath just been shot — the arrow bright With an immortal's vengeance ; in his eye And nostril beautiful disdain, and might And majesty, flash their full lightnings by, Developing in that one glance the Deity.
Página 14 - Rich marbles — richer painting — shrines where flame The lamps of gold — and haughty dome which vies In air with earth's chief structures, though their frame Sits on the firm-set ground — and this the clouds must claim.
Página 80 - It will not bear the brightness of the day, Which streams too much on all years, man, have reft away.
Página 267 - Strike — till the last armed foe expires; Strike — for your altars and your fires; Strike — for the green graves of your sires; God — and your native land!
Página 289 - He reck'd 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 Dacian mother— he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday— All this rush'd with his blood— Shall he expire And unavenged?
Página 66 - Where the car climbed 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,
Página 80 - But when the rising moon begins to climb Its topmost arch, and gently pauses there ; When the stars twinkle through the loops of time, And the low night-breeze waves along the air The...