A Handbook for Travellers in Central ItalyJ. Murray, 1853 |
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... remarkable for the excellence of its buildings ( Μυκήνας ἐϋκτίμενον πτολίεθρον ) . To these facts we shall only add , that the Cyclopean style , wherever it is found , is composed , as stated by Pausanias , of irregular polygonal masses ...
... remarkable for the excellence of its buildings ( Μυκήνας ἐϋκτίμενον πτολίεθρον ) . To these facts we shall only add , that the Cyclopean style , wherever it is found , is composed , as stated by Pausanias , of irregular polygonal masses ...
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... remarkable are the sarcophagi of Junius Bassus and of Anicius Probus , in the vaults of St. Peter's . They are covered with bas - reliefs from the Old and New Testaments , of the highest interest as examples of art of the fourth century ...
... remarkable are the sarcophagi of Junius Bassus and of Anicius Probus , in the vaults of St. Peter's . They are covered with bas - reliefs from the Old and New Testaments , of the highest interest as examples of art of the fourth century ...
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... remarkable Christian monuments in existence . The traveller who may desire to trace the progress of sculpture , from the period of its revival in the thirteenth century to that of its decline in the school of Bernini , will find ...
... remarkable Christian monuments in existence . The traveller who may desire to trace the progress of sculpture , from the period of its revival in the thirteenth century to that of its decline in the school of Bernini , will find ...
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... remarkable . Città di Castello is still rich in interesting and almost unknown works of Luca Signorelli , Beato Angelico , and other masters , whose style exer- cised an important influence on the genius of Raphael . It was in this town ...
... remarkable . Città di Castello is still rich in interesting and almost unknown works of Luca Signorelli , Beato Angelico , and other masters , whose style exer- cised an important influence on the genius of Raphael . It was in this town ...
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... remarkable for having become the claim precedence over all others . The pupil of his own scholar , and for the first fact recorded in connection with works he produced after his style had the fine arts at Ferrara is the commis- been ...
... remarkable for having become the claim precedence over all others . The pupil of his own scholar , and for the first fact recorded in connection with works he produced after his style had the fine arts at Ferrara is the commis- been ...
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Página 258 - The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, LXX.
Página 258 - Torn from the womb of mountains by the throes Of a new world, than only thus to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings, through the vale : — Look back ! Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in its track, Charming the eye with dread, — a matchless cataract, " Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a deathbed, and unworn Its steady dyes,...
Página 267 - Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, ye Whose agonies are evils of a day ! — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay.
Página 267 - Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber ! through a marble wilderness ? B.ise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress ! LXXX.
Página 258 - With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal April to the ground, Making it all one emerald : — how profound The gulf! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which, downward worn and rent With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent. To the broad column which rolls on, and shows More like the fountain of an infant sea Tom from the womb of mountains by the throes Of a new world...
Página 131 - And put it to the foil : but you, O you, So perfect, and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.
Página 267 - Oh Rome! my country! city of the soul! The orphans of the heart must, turn to thee," Lone mother of dead empires! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples , Ye! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay.
Página 253 - But thou, Clitumnus ! in thy sweetest wave Of the most living crystal that was e'er The haunt of river nymph, to gaze and lave Her limbs where nothing hid them...
Página 94 - raising our eyes to heaven, or directing them to the earth, can we doubt of the existence of God ? — or how, turning them to what is within us, can we doubt that there is something...
Página 94 - The shrill cicalas, people of the pine, Making their summer lives one ceaseless song, Were the sole echoes, save my steed's and mine, And vesper bell's that rose the boughs along...