Italy, Spain, and Portugal: With an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaça and Batalha, Delen 1-2Wiley and Putnam, 1845 |
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... This characteristic stillness was the more pleasing , when I looked back upon those scenes of outcry and horror which filled London but a week or two ago , when danger was not confined to night only , and to the environs of the ANTWERP . 5.
... This characteristic stillness was the more pleasing , when I looked back upon those scenes of outcry and horror which filled London but a week or two ago , when danger was not confined to night only , and to the environs of the ANTWERP . 5.
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... looked a little muddled or so ; and , to be sure , the description I afterwards heard of his style of living favours not a little my surmises . This worthy dignitary , what with his private fortune and the good things of the church ...
... looked a little muddled or so ; and , to be sure , the description I afterwards heard of his style of living favours not a little my surmises . This worthy dignitary , what with his private fortune and the good things of the church ...
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... looked into a country - house of the late Count Bentinck , with parterres and bosquets by no means resembling , one should conjecture , the gardens of the Hesperides . But , considering that the whole group of trees , terraces , and ver ...
... looked into a country - house of the late Count Bentinck , with parterres and bosquets by no means resembling , one should conjecture , the gardens of the Hesperides . But , considering that the whole group of trees , terraces , and ver ...
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... looked up , and lo ! I was in a garret . As poetry is but too often connected with this lofty situation , you will not wonder much at my flight . Being a little recovered from it , I tottered down the staircase , entered the cabinets of ...
... looked up , and lo ! I was in a garret . As poetry is but too often connected with this lofty situation , you will not wonder much at my flight . Being a little recovered from it , I tottered down the staircase , entered the cabinets of ...
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... looked so calm and glassy that I was determined to be better acquainted with it . For this purpose we descended by a zigzag path into the vale , and making the best of our way on the banks of the Lahn , ( for so is the river called ...
... looked so calm and glassy that I was determined to be better acquainted with it . For this purpose we descended by a zigzag path into the vale , and making the best of our way on the banks of the Lahn , ( for so is the river called ...
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Italy, Spain, and Portugal: With an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaca ... William Beckford Volledige weergave - 1840 |
Italy, Spain, and Portugal: With an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaca ... William Beckford Volledige weergave - 1840 |
Italy, Spain and Portugal with an excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaça ... William Beckford Volledige weergave - 1848 |
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Æneid altar amongst apartment appeared arches ascending began beheld beneath carriage Carthusians chapel church Cintra cliffs cloisters clouds coadjutor concealed convent countenance cupola dark delight discovered distant dome door edifice entered eyes fathers feet flowers forests gallery garden gates gleam glittering gloomy glowing Grand Prior green groves half hills holy hour imagine inclosure inhabitants innumerable late LETTER light Lisbon lofty looked Lucca marble Marialva Marquis Misenus modinhas MONASTERIES OF ALCOBAÇA monks moon morning mountains Naples night Padua palace parterres passed Paul Veronese pavement pine plains porticoes Portuguese Posilipo postilions precipices Prince of Brazil prospect Radicofani recesses repose retired rising rocks roof round scarcely scene seemed shade solemn soon sound spirits steeps strange style summit Tagus terraces thickets torrent towers trees valley vapours vast Venice Verdeil villa Villa Medici walked walls waters whilst whole wild wind woods
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Pagina 33 - There seemed no end to these forests, except where little irregular spots of herbage, fed by cattle, intervened. Whenever we gained an eminence, it was only to discover more ranges of dark wood, variegated with meadows and glittering streams. White clover, and a profusion of sweet-scented flowers, clothe their banks ; above waves the...
Pagina 44 - ... left the country of crags and precipices, of mists and cataracts, and were entering the fertile territory of the Bassanese. It was now I beheld groves of olives, and vines clustering the summits of the tallest elms ; pomegranates in every garden, and vases of citron and orange before almost every door. The softness and transparency of the air soon told me I was arrived in happier climates ; and I felt sensations of joy and novelty run through my veins, upon beholding this smiling land of groves...
Pagina 49 - Amongst the multitudes, I remarked a good many whose dress and carriage announced something above the common rank ; and, upon inquiry, I found they were noble Venetians, just come from their casinos, and met to refresh themselves with fruit before they retired to sleep for the day. . ' Whilst I was observing them, the sun began to colour the balustrades of the palaces; and the pure exhilarating air of the morning drawing me abroad,. I procured a gondola, laid in my provision of bread and grapes,...
Pagina 50 - Doge's residence and the tall columns at the entrance of the place of St. Mark, form, together with the arcades of the public library, the lofty Campanile and the cupolas of the ducal church, one of the most striking groups of buildings that art can boast of. To behold at one glance these stately fabrics, so illustrious in the records of former ages, before which, in the flourishing times of the republic, so many valiant chiefs and princes have landed, loaded with the spoils of different nations,...
Pagina 184 - ... fruit in endless variety. Beyond a long line of stoves extended a row of ovens, and close to them hillocks of wheaten flour whiter than snow, rocks of sugar, jars of the purest oil, and pastry in vast abundance, which a numerous tribe of lay brothers and their attendants were rolling out and puffing up into a hundred different shapes, singing all the while as blithely as larks in a corn-field.
Pagina 54 - ... these wild rocks and mountains, she is surrounded by a bevy of delicate warblers, as plump as quails, and as gurgling and melodious as nightingales. The violins and violoncellos at her Majesty's beck are all of the first order, and in oboe and flute-players her musical menagerie is unrivalled. . . . This very morning, to my shame be it recorded, I remained hour after hour in my newly-arranged pavilion, without reading a word, writing a line, or entering into any conversation. All my faculties...
Pagina 32 - Ianguid interrupted measures, as if the breath was gone with excess of rapture, and the soul panting to meet the kindred soul of some beloved object. With a childish carelessness they steal into the heart...
Pagina 183 - The first sight of this regal monastery is very imposing ; and the picturesque, well-wooded and well-watered village, out of the quiet bosom of which it appears to rise, relieves the mind from a sense of oppression the huge domineering bulk of the conventual buildings inspire.
Pagina 171 - THE Prince Regent of Portugal, for reasons with which I was never entirely acquainted, took it into his royal head, one fair morning, to desire I would pay a visit to the monasteries of...
Pagina 49 - The great bronze portal opened, whilst I was standing on the steps which lead to it, and discovered the interior of the dome, where I expatiated in solitude; no mortal appearing, except an old priest who trimmed the lamps, and muttered a prayer before the high altar, still wrapt in shadows. The sunbeams began to strike against the windows of the cupola, just as I left the church, and was wafted across the waves to the spacious platform in front of St.