The Italian Sketch BookKey & Biddle, 1835 - 216 páginas |
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... existence , and more certain and purely succeeds the renown of the useful and excellent writer , than that of the most successful aspirant for immediate popu- larity . There is , too , a beautiful completeness in the works and fame of ...
... existence , and more certain and purely succeeds the renown of the useful and excellent writer , than that of the most successful aspirant for immediate popu- larity . There is , too , a beautiful completeness in the works and fame of ...
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... existence , which has nerved the arm of the combatant , and the stern despair with which he has at length relinquished his dearly sold life ? Far less might one hope to real- ize the deep energy with which the martyr to his faith has ...
... existence , which has nerved the arm of the combatant , and the stern despair with which he has at length relinquished his dearly sold life ? Far less might one hope to real- ize the deep energy with which the martyr to his faith has ...
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... existence , the tempo- rary habitation of a soul . Thus has it been of old , and this is alike the history of an ancient martyr and the victim of a modern sacrifice . The intelli- gent sentiment which impelled and sustained may ...
... existence , the tempo- rary habitation of a soul . Thus has it been of old , and this is alike the history of an ancient martyr and the victim of a modern sacrifice . The intelli- gent sentiment which impelled and sustained may ...
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... existence is urged along . The pervading musical spirit of the Florentines seemed to break out anew as the genial season ad- vanced , and no time were the opera airs chanted by persons of almost every class as they walk the streets at ...
... existence is urged along . The pervading musical spirit of the Florentines seemed to break out anew as the genial season ad- vanced , and no time were the opera airs chanted by persons of almost every class as they walk the streets at ...
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... , theatres and temples , broken and imperfect as they are , where ages ago this wonderful phenomena of human existence was carried on , and its several elements sustained , even as at present : this is most wonderful , most 100 . NAPLES .
... , theatres and temples , broken and imperfect as they are , where ages ago this wonderful phenomena of human existence was carried on , and its several elements sustained , even as at present : this is most wonderful , most 100 . NAPLES .
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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.