Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters, During an Excursion in Italy, in the Years 1802 and 1803Murray, 1835 - 467 pagina's |
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Pagina 79 - 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 436 - is the person you want," and left him locked up in the mysterious assembly. These were men who imagined themselves equal at that time, to treat with him for the throne of England. " Dispose of me, gentlemen, as you please," said Charles ; " my life is in your power, and I therefore can stipulate for nothing. Yet give me, I entreat, one solemn promise, that if your design should succeed, the present family shall be sent safely and honourably home.
Pagina 136 - If the columns are not all mathematically equal,' says Mr. Forsyth, ' yet, inequalities which nothing but measurement can detect, are not faults to the eye, which is sole judge. But the portal is more than faultless : it is positively the most sublime result that was ever produced by so little architecture.
Pagina 7 - while the capital of a republic, was celebrated for its profusion of marble, its patrician towers, and its grave magnificence. It still can boast some marble churches, a marble palace, and a marble bridge. Its towers, though no longer a mark of nobility, may be traced in the walls of modernized houses. Its gravity pervades every street ; but its magnificence is now confined to one sacred corner. There...
Pagina 273 - The next professor is a dog of knowledge, great in his own little circle of admirers. Opposite to him stand two jocund old men, in the centre of an oval group, singing alternately to their crazy guitars. Further on is a motley audience seated on planks, and listening to a tragi-comic filosofo, who reads, sings, and gesticulates old gothic tales of Orlando and his Paladins.
Pagina 42 - I saw nothing here so grand as the group of Niobe ; if statues which are now disjointed and placed equidistantly round a room, may be so called. Niobe herself, clasped by the arm of her terrified child, is certainly a group ; and whether the head be original or not, the contrast of passion, of beauty, and even of dress, is admirable. The dress of the other daughters appears too thin, too meretricious, for dying princesses. Some of the sons exert too much attitude. Like gladiators, they seem taught...
Pagina 116 - ... of the lakes and marshes. In some parts the water is brackish, and lies lower than the sea ; in others it oozes full of tartar from beds of travertine. At the bottom, or on the sides of hills, are a multitude of hot springs, which form pools, called lagoni. A few of these are said to produce borax ; some, which are called fumache, exhale sulphur; others, called bulicami, boil with a mephitic gas.
Pagina 146 - A colossal taste gave rise to the Coliseum. Here, indeed, gigantic dimensions were necessary ; for, though hundreds could enter at once, and fifty thousand find seats, the space was still insufficient for Rome, and the crowd for the morning games began at midnight. Vespasian and Titus, as if presaging their own deaths, hurried the building, and left several marks of their precipitancy behind. In the upper walls they have inserted stones which had evidently been dressed for a different purpose. Some...
Pagina 11 - One of their litterati took pains to convince me that the German architect contrived this declination, which his Italian successors endeavoured to rectify. The Campo Santo. The portico of this vast rectangle is formed by such arcades as we find in Roman architecture. Every arch is round, and every pillar faced with pilasters ; but each arcade includes an intersection of small arches rising from slender shafts like the mullions of a Gothic window. This, however, looks like an addition foreign to the...
Pagina 176 - Tritons. It was scarcely to be expected that the very questionable taste of this design would escape the criticism of Forsyth : he calls it " another pompous confusion of fable and fact, gods and ediles, aqueducts and seamonsters ; but the rock-work is grand, proportioned to the stream of water, and a fit basement for such architecture as a Castel d'acqua required, not for the frittered Corinthian which we find there.