Italy, Spain, and Portugal: With an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaca and BatalhaR. Bentley, 1840 - 440 pagina's |
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... fancy built castles and capitols in the clouds with all the extravaganza of Piranesi . The magnificence and variety of my aërial structures hindered my thinking the way long . I was walking with a crowd of phantoms upon their terraces ...
... fancy built castles and capitols in the clouds with all the extravaganza of Piranesi . The magnificence and variety of my aërial structures hindered my thinking the way long . I was walking with a crowd of phantoms upon their terraces ...
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... fancy . July 31st . - My heart beat quick when I saw some hills , not very distant , which I was told lay in the Venetian State , and I thought an age , at least , had elapsed before we we were passing their base . The road was never ...
... fancy . July 31st . - My heart beat quick when I saw some hills , not very distant , which I was told lay in the Venetian State , and I thought an age , at least , had elapsed before we we were passing their base . The road was never ...
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... fancy upon my return . I could not dine in peace , so strongly was my ima- gination affected ; but snatching my pencil , I drew chasms and subterraneous hollows , the domain of fear and torture , with chains , racks , wheels , and ...
... fancy upon my return . I could not dine in peace , so strongly was my ima- gination affected ; but snatching my pencil , I drew chasms and subterraneous hollows , the domain of fear and torture , with chains , racks , wheels , and ...
Pagina 63
... fancy just springing into the air : I mean the vile stench which exhales from every recess and corner of the edifice , and which all the incense of the altars cannot subdue . When no longer able to endure this noxious atmosphere , I run ...
... fancy just springing into the air : I mean the vile stench which exhales from every recess and corner of the edifice , and which all the incense of the altars cannot subdue . When no longer able to endure this noxious atmosphere , I run ...
Pagina 65
... fancy ever glittered in his mind ; without love or anger , pleasure or pain , his days fleet smoothly along : all things considered , I must confess I envied such comfortable apathy . After having passed an instructive hour in examining ...
... fancy ever glittered in his mind ; without love or anger , pleasure or pain , his days fleet smoothly along : all things considered , I must confess I envied such comfortable apathy . After having passed an instructive hour in examining ...
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