The Tourist in Italy, Volume 2proprietors, 1832 - 271 pagina's |
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Pagina 4
... Prince who then lorded over that and a few other cities of Italy . Gio- vanni Galeazzo Visconti , who , as we formerly remarked , was the sovereign to whom the honor belongs of having laid the foundation of that church , was chiefly ...
... Prince who then lorded over that and a few other cities of Italy . Gio- vanni Galeazzo Visconti , who , as we formerly remarked , was the sovereign to whom the honor belongs of having laid the foundation of that church , was chiefly ...
Pagina 5
... prince , however , who is ambitious of a long and splendidly emblazoned genealogy , is seldom in want of historians or poets ready to gratify him in his wish . The chronicles therefore of the Visconti are not want- ing in that species ...
... prince , however , who is ambitious of a long and splendidly emblazoned genealogy , is seldom in want of historians or poets ready to gratify him in his wish . The chronicles therefore of the Visconti are not want- ing in that species ...
Pagina 10
... prince inherited his valour , and was chosen on account of this and his other virtues to lead the seven thousand Milanese who had taken the vows of Crusaders to the Holy Land . Some time after the arrival of the army before Jerusalem ...
... prince inherited his valour , and was chosen on account of this and his other virtues to lead the seven thousand Milanese who had taken the vows of Crusaders to the Holy Land . Some time after the arrival of the army before Jerusalem ...
Pagina 19
... prince was weak in body , and more amiable in disposition than strong in intellect . In the stormy period when he lived , such a sovereign had little chance of remaining long in possession of his authority . The ambition of neighbouring ...
... prince was weak in body , and more amiable in disposition than strong in intellect . In the stormy period when he lived , such a sovereign had little chance of remaining long in possession of his authority . The ambition of neighbouring ...
Pagina 20
... prince of Galeazzo's charac- ter in the safe possession of his throne . But he had another enemy to encounter , far more formidable even than the most ambitious and powerful of his neigh- bours . His uncle , Ludovico Sforza , was the ...
... prince of Galeazzo's charac- ter in the safe possession of his throne . But he had another enemy to encounter , far more formidable even than the most ambitious and powerful of his neigh- bours . His uncle , Ludovico Sforza , was the ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 111 - So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied...
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 194 - Steals o'er the trembling waters. Everywhere Fable and Truth have shed, in rivalry, Each her peculiar influence. Fable came And laughed and sung, arraying Truth in flowers, Like a young child her grandam. Fable came; Earth, sea and sky reflecting, as she flew, A thousand, thousand colours not their own: And at her bidding, lo!
Pagina 277 - With deeper red the full pomegranate glows, The branch here bends beneath the weighty pear, And verdant olives flourish round the year. The balmy spirit of the western gale Eternal breathes on fruits untaught to fail...
Pagina 111 - 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 230 - 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 120 - Violent the tumult ; for, already in sight, Nearer and nearer yet the danger drew ; Each every sinew straining, every nerve, Each snatching up, and girding, buckling on Morion and greave and shirt of twisted mail, As for his life — no more perchance to taste, ARNO, the grateful freshness of thy glades, Thy waters — where, exulting, he had felt A swimmer's transport, there, alas ! to float And welter.
Pagina 93 - Credette Cimabue, nella pintura, Tener lo campo; ed ora ha Giotto il grido, SI che la fama di colui oscura.
Pagina 73 - that I have lived the time prescribed me. I die content; leaving you, my sons, in affluence and in health, and in such a station, that whilst you follow my example, you may live in your native place honoured and respected.
Pagina 213 - But here the mighty Monarch underneath, He in his palace of fire, diffuses round A dazzling splendour. Here, unseen, unheard, Opening another Eden in the wild, He works his wonders ; save, when issuing...