The Tourist in Italy, Volume 2proprietors, 1832 - 271 pagina's |
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... minds , with respect to their antiquities , their local traditions , and historical events . Switzerland , and the northern districts of Italy , have already been delineated in the Landscape An- nuals for 1830 and 1831. The brighter ...
... minds , with respect to their antiquities , their local traditions , and historical events . Switzerland , and the northern districts of Italy , have already been delineated in the Landscape An- nuals for 1830 and 1831. The brighter ...
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... mind , brave , clever , and to the utmost degree ambitious . The same ambition which urged him to lay the foundation of the Domo of Milan , made him weak enough to accept as truth and approve as undoubted a most flattering and fabulous ...
... mind , brave , clever , and to the utmost degree ambitious . The same ambition which urged him to lay the foundation of the Domo of Milan , made him weak enough to accept as truth and approve as undoubted a most flattering and fabulous ...
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... mind , and his youthful wife sunk on her knees in an agony of grief to dissuade him from the enterprise ; but he was resolved , and , disengaging himself from her embrace , ordered the porter at the gate to withdraw the bolts . As he ...
... mind , and his youthful wife sunk on her knees in an agony of grief to dissuade him from the enterprise ; but he was resolved , and , disengaging himself from her embrace , ordered the porter at the gate to withdraw the bolts . As he ...
Pagina 9
Thomas Roscoe. mind is scarcely so silent as was that melancholy spot The air was wet with a heavy rain , but no drops fell , and no pattering was heard either among the trees or on the earth . The air itself seemed dead - it was moist ...
Thomas Roscoe. mind is scarcely so silent as was that melancholy spot The air was wet with a heavy rain , but no drops fell , and no pattering was heard either among the trees or on the earth . The air itself seemed dead - it was moist ...
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... mind and character . Bold , talented , and enterprising , he was one of those men who , if not heirs to a crown , seem destined to win one for themselves , or , if they are born to a kingdom , to extend their authority over empires ...
... mind and character . Bold , talented , and enterprising , he was one of those men who , if not heirs to a crown , seem destined to win one for themselves , or , if they are born to a kingdom , to extend their authority over empires ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
ancient Angera appeared Aricia arms Arno artist Baiæ beauty Bishop blood Boccaccio bridge Buffalmacco Calandrino castle cathedral celebrated character Charles Charles of Anjou church citizens Clitumnus crown Dante death delight distinguished Duke edifice Emperor enemy Engraved fame father favor favorite Florence Florentines formed friends Galeazzo genius Ghibellines Giotto hand hill 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 miles mind Misenum Naples nature Neapolitan neighbourhood neighbouring Nepi noble once painted painter palace Palais Père la Chaise Petrarch Piccinino Pisa poet Pont Pope possession Prince Procida 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
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...