The Italian Sketch BookKey & Biddle, 1835 - 216 páginas |
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... render his works not only universally interesting , as just and vivid chro- nicles , but as most attractive illustrations of the capacities of his native language . I PROCEEDED at a similar season forth from the city 34 ROME .
... render his works not only universally interesting , as just and vivid chro- nicles , but as most attractive illustrations of the capacities of his native language . I PROCEEDED at a similar season forth from the city 34 ROME .
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... language of which brings something of pleasure to the man of anxious temperament , and to whose meditative influences even the practised worldling not unwillingly yields himself ; a day , on which the student instinctively turns from ...
... language of which brings something of pleasure to the man of anxious temperament , and to whose meditative influences even the practised worldling not unwillingly yields himself ; a day , on which the student instinctively turns from ...
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... language of a modern metropolis . The constant cry of the venders , the hurrying to and fro of busy feet , the restlessness of trade , and the gaudy bustle of pleasure all are here , and they break in too rudely upon the quiet beauty of ...
... language of a modern metropolis . The constant cry of the venders , the hurrying to and fro of busy feet , the restlessness of trade , and the gaudy bustle of pleasure all are here , and they break in too rudely upon the quiet beauty of ...
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... languages , and a fine bust of the founder of the institution , by Canova . At the table upon which this stood , my ... language . In a smaller library I was shown many interesting works printed in the con- L vent : among others , a ...
... languages , and a fine bust of the founder of the institution , by Canova . At the table upon which this stood , my ... language . In a smaller library I was shown many interesting works printed in the con- L vent : among others , a ...
Página 118
... languages , Milton's Paradise Lost , and Rollin's Ancient History , translated into Arminian by the learned padre . Having looked at the press below , and enjoyed the fine view from various parts of the building , I took my leave ...
... languages , Milton's Paradise Lost , and Rollin's Ancient History , translated into Arminian by the learned padre . Having looked at the press below , and enjoyed the fine view from various parts of the building , I took my leave ...
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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.