Pictures from Sicily, by the author of Forty days in the desertArthur Hall, Virtue & Company, 1853 - 200 pagina's |
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... TOMB OF KING Roger OLD PENSIONER . PAGE • Dickes 7 • Dickes 9 Dickes • 102 • Branston . 108 Branston . • 117 • Branston , 125 Branston . 129 • • Dickes 130 • Branston . . 133 Dickes . " • 138 • Dickes • 145 • Dickes 148 • Branston . 160 ...
... TOMB OF KING Roger OLD PENSIONER . PAGE • Dickes 7 • Dickes 9 Dickes • 102 • Branston . 108 Branston . • 117 • Branston , 125 Branston . 129 • • Dickes 130 • Branston . . 133 Dickes . " • 138 • Dickes • 145 • Dickes 148 • Branston . 160 ...
Pagina 65
... Tombs . Much of the impressiveness of a place like Pompeii is often lost by the mode in which it is visited . People come in large parties from Naples , furnished with luxurious luncheons , washed down with Lachrymæ Christi and ...
... Tombs . Much of the impressiveness of a place like Pompeii is often lost by the mode in which it is visited . People come in large parties from Naples , furnished with luxurious luncheons , washed down with Lachrymæ Christi and ...
Pagina 66
... Tombs and the Villa of Diomede , perhaps the most impressive of the many objects of interest with which Pompeii abounds . It would be useless here to describe these in detail , what every one is more or less familiar with through ...
... Tombs and the Villa of Diomede , perhaps the most impressive of the many objects of interest with which Pompeii abounds . It would be useless here to describe these in detail , what every one is more or less familiar with through ...
Pagina 68
... Their city to a shroud , spared in its crust Inviolate ; while their wretched children - half Of that fair province , blasted in their pride , Sank down unwept , unmonumented died ! POMPEII . And here the living , while erecting tombs.
... Their city to a shroud , spared in its crust Inviolate ; while their wretched children - half Of that fair province , blasted in their pride , Sank down unwept , unmonumented died ! POMPEII . And here the living , while erecting tombs.
Pagina 69
William Henry Bartlett. POMPEII . And here the living , while erecting tombs To shrine ancestral dust , left off their toil To fill their own ! Where now the citron blooms , And fig - trees flourish - sifted from the spoil Of centuries ...
William Henry Bartlett. POMPEII . And here the living , while erecting tombs To shrine ancestral dust , left off their toil To fill their own ! Where now the citron blooms , And fig - trees flourish - sifted from the spoil Of centuries ...
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adorned Agrigentum amidst ancient appearance arches architecture ascend Athenians beautiful became beds building Calabria Carthaginians Casa Inglese Catania cathedral Charles of Anjou church Civita Vecchia cloth coast crater descend Dionysius distant dome dreary edifice English erected eruption Etna famous feet French fresh Girgenti Greek harbour immense inhabitants interior island Italy King of Naples King Roger lava length lofty luxurious magnificent marble Marsala mass Messina miles Monreale monuments mosaics Mount Etna mountain Neapolitan neighbouring Nicolosi night noble Norman obtained Ortygia palace Palermitans Palermo parliament passed picturesque pillars Pompeii present principal rich road rock Roman rugged ruins Saracens scene scenery seemed seen Segeste Selinunte shore Sicilian Sicily side speedily splendid spot standing steamers stood streets Stromboli style summit supposed Syracusans Syracuse Taormina temple theatre tombs towers town Trapani travellers troops Vesuvius villas volcanic walls whole wild wind
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Pagina 176 - It ends with musical melancholy, a strain of exquisitely simple beauty, referring to the judicial slaying of one of England's worthiest sons. There are some fine portraits ably limned herein. There are family pictures so graphically described that they possess the mind for ever.
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Pagina 176 - Mrs. Hall's talents are too well known to require our commendation of her ' Pilgrimages,' which are every way worthy of the beautiful woodcuts that illustrate almost every page, and this is very high praise indeed." — Standard. "The illustrations are very effective ; and the whole work, externally and internally, is worthy of the patronage of all who love to be instructed as well as amused.
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Pagina 110 - Twas ever thus. As now at VIRGIL'S tomb We bless the shade and bid the verdure bloom ; So TULLY paused, amid the wrecks of Time, On the rude stone to trace the truth sublime ; When at his feet, in honoured dust disclosed, The immortal Sage of Syracuse reposed.
Pagina 176 - The volume is profusely embellished with engravings of the antiquities of which it treats. We would recommend its perusal to all who desire to know whatever our countrymen have done and are doing in the East.
Pagina 176 - Mr. Payne is entitled to the highest praise for the care bestowed on the antiquated orthography of the earlier authors, and the ability and judgment displayed in the annexed notei throughout the volume.