The Italian Sketch BookKey & Biddle, 1835 - 216 páginas |
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... a complete agreement in the notions and sentiments of travel- lers , but will tend to a much more useful purpose -that of inducing a satisfactory result upon their own ... his imagina- tion thither through the long and magnifying space which ...
... a complete agreement in the notions and sentiments of travel- lers , but will tend to a much more useful purpose -that of inducing a satisfactory result upon their own ... his imagina- tion thither through the long and magnifying space which ...
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... have earth's most splendid pageants passed ; eyes bedewed with the rich tears of grateful exultation , have dwelt ... his awful shaft . A slower but not less sure agency has not passed negligently by the monument , and the naked ...
... have earth's most splendid pageants passed ; eyes bedewed with the rich tears of grateful exultation , have dwelt ... his awful shaft . A slower but not less sure agency has not passed negligently by the monument , and the naked ...
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... a mellow light in which the pictured and sculptured forms seemed living things , and the notes of the chanters falling in reverberated echoes upon the ear , and worship after his own heart , or muse holily till the fire burns . CAPUCHIN ...
... a mellow light in which the pictured and sculptured forms seemed living things , and the notes of the chanters falling in reverberated echoes upon the ear , and worship after his own heart , or muse holily till the fire burns . CAPUCHIN ...
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... human suffering have these dark walls witnessed ! Could they but speak , what a tale of horror would be un- folded ! How often has man , in all his savage or his cultivated dignity , been abandoned in this wide area to the beasts of the ...
... human suffering have these dark walls witnessed ! Could they but speak , what a tale of horror would be un- folded ! How often has man , in all his savage or his cultivated dignity , been abandoned in this wide area to the beasts of the ...
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... a market - place— these are circumstances which strike one most disa- greeably , and break in most inharmoniously upon his cherished associations . The ruins called the Baths of Caracalla , ' are massive and broken walls , indicative of ...
... a market - place— these are circumstances which strike one most disa- greeably , and break in most inharmoniously upon his cherished associations . The ruins called the Baths of Caracalla , ' are massive and broken walls , indicative of ...
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Página 38 - There is a stern round tower of other days, Firm as a fortress, with its fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland of eternity, where wave The green leaves over all by time o'erthrown ; — What was this tower of strength ? within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so hid ? — A woman's grave.
Página 13 - The Niobe of nations, — there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios...
Página 107 - I loved her from my boyhood — she to me Was as a fairy city of the heart, Rising like water.columns from the sea, Of joy the sojourn, and of wealth the mart ; And Otway, Radcliffe, Schiller, Shakspeare's art, Had stamp'd her image in me...
Página iii - Italia! oh Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became A funeral dower of present woes and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Oh, God! that thou wert in thy nakedness Less lovely or more powerful, and couldst claim Thy right, and awe the robbers back, who press To shed thy blood, and drink the tears of thy distress...
Página 171 - And solemn smokes, like altars of the world. Thrice beautiful! — to that delightful spot Carry our married hearts, and be all pain forgot. There Art, too, shows, when Nature's beauty palls, Her sculptured marbles, and her pictured walls ; And there are forms in which they both conspire To whisper themes that know not how to tire ; The speaking ruins in that gentle clime Have but been hallow'd by the hand of Time, And each can mutely prompt some thought of flame: The meanest stone is not without...
Página 155 - PLEASURE, that comes unlooked-for, is thrice welcome; And, if it stir the heart, if aught be there, That may hereafter in a thoughtful hour Wake but a sigh, 'tis treasured up among The things most precious ! and the day it came Is noted as a white day in our lives.