The Landscape annual [afterw.] Jennings' landscape annual [ed. by R. Jennings].Robert Jennings 1832 |
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... ancient and a modern Rome can only exist in words . The power of her republics and her Cæsars will be felt to the last days of her church ; and it is not an extravagant conjecture that the influence of its recollections on the ...
... ancient and a modern Rome can only exist in words . The power of her republics and her Cæsars will be felt to the last days of her church ; and it is not an extravagant conjecture that the influence of its recollections on the ...
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... ancient , not only of Italy but of the world , and he would not have found many who could have equalled his nobility , even had he been satisfied with the mere truth . But this was not enough , and nothing less than a Trojan origin ...
... ancient , not only of Italy but of the world , and he would not have found many who could have equalled his nobility , even had he been satisfied with the mere truth . But this was not enough , and nothing less than a Trojan origin ...
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... ancient , it was , however , inferior to many which it afterwards subjected , even so late as the middle of the thirteenth century . Its elevation may be dated from about 1260 , when Pope Urban IV . caused Ottone Visconti to be chosen ...
... ancient , it was , however , inferior to many which it afterwards subjected , even so late as the middle of the thirteenth century . Its elevation may be dated from about 1260 , when Pope Urban IV . caused Ottone Visconti to be chosen ...
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... in social life . The ancient name of this magnificent piece of water was Lacus Verbanus , an appellation for which antiquaries are at a loss to account , some ascribing it to the vernal sweetness of the air upon its shores Lago Maggiore.
... in social life . The ancient name of this magnificent piece of water was Lacus Verbanus , an appellation for which antiquaries are at a loss to account , some ascribing it to the vernal sweetness of the air upon its shores Lago Maggiore.
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... ancient world . It gives a picture of comparatively busy and happy life , —of energy in the action and vivacity in the voice and countenance ; the Arno and its banks , unlike the low sullen Tiber , sluggish and deserted , partake of ...
... ancient world . It gives a picture of comparatively busy and happy life , —of energy in the action and vivacity in the voice and countenance ; the Arno and its banks , unlike the low sullen Tiber , sluggish and deserted , partake of ...
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ancient Angera appeared Aricia arms Arno artist Baiæ beauty Bishop blood bridge Buffalmacco Calandrino CALIGULA castle cathedral celebrated CETARA character Charles Charles of Anjou church citizens Clitumnus crown Dante death delight distinguished Duke edifice Emperor enemy Engraved fame father favorite Florence Florentines formed friends Galeazzo genius Ghibellines Giotto hand hills honor India Proofs inhabitants Italian Italy King lake Lake of Nemi latter lord Lorenzo Lucca Lucrine lake Maffeo magnificent marble master Medici Michael Angelo Milan mind Misenum Naples nature Neapolitan neighbourhood neighbouring Nepi noble once painted painter palace Palais passion Père la Chaise Petrarch Piccinino Pisa poet Pont Pope possession Prince Puzzuoli reign Roman Rome Royal ruins says scene scenery seen Sforza shore Sorrento spirit splendour Spoleto spot sword temple thou tion took town villa Visconti waters wild woods young youth
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Pagina 116 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Pagina 163 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again ! Not, chaos-like, together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd : Where order in variety we see, And where, tho' all things differ, all agree.
Pagina 1 - Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows, richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Pagina 139 - All amidst the gardens fair Of Hesperus, and his daughters three That sing about the golden tree. Along the crisped shades and bowers Revels the spruce and jocund Spring ; The Graces and the rosy-bosomed Hours Thither all their bounties bring.
Pagina 29 - I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips ' and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with lush ' woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Pagina 249 - Let us go round; And let the sail be slack, the course be slow, That at our leisure, as we coast along, We may contemplate, and from every scene Receive its influence.
Pagina 245 - THIS region, surely, is not of the earth.* Was it not dropt from heaven ? Not a grove, Citron or pine or cedar, not a grot . Sea-worn and mantled with the gadding vine, But breathes enchantment. Not a cliff but flings On the clear wave some image of delight, Some cabin-roof glowing with crimson flowers, Some ruined temple or fallen monument, To muse on as the bark is gliding by.
Pagina 242 - O'er whose unhappy waters, void of light, No bird presumes to steer his airy flight; Such deadly stenches from the depth arise, And steaming sulphur, that infects the skies.
Pagina 65 - Crossed by the deer. Then to the Ladies' Vale ; And the clear lake, that as by magic seemed To lift up to the surface every stone Of lustre there, and the diminutive fish Innumerable, dropt with crimson and gold, Now motionless, now glancing to the sun. Who has not dwelt on their voluptuous day ? The morning banquet by the...