The Tourist in Italy, Volume 2proprietors, 1832 - 271 pagina's |
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Pagina 6
... round its high altar were numerous as on a grand festival day of the church , and every nook of its aisles and cloisters shone with the tapers and offerings with which the piety and care of different citizens had adorned them . Through ...
... round its high altar were numerous as on a grand festival day of the church , and every nook of its aisles and cloisters shone with the tapers and offerings with which the piety and care of different citizens had adorned them . Through ...
Pagina 20
... round his state was from the first like a glaring and uncertain meteor , and the termination of his career was like the extinguishing of a torch which had lit up this city for the night of a carnival . The young Duke Galeazzo had been ...
... round his state was from the first like a glaring and uncertain meteor , and the termination of his career was like the extinguishing of a torch which had lit up this city for the night of a carnival . The young Duke Galeazzo had been ...
Pagina 66
... round they lay On carpets , the fresh waters murmuring ; And the short interval of pleasant talk Till supper - time , when many a syren voice Sung down the stars ; and , as they left the sky , The torches , planted in the sparkling ...
... round they lay On carpets , the fresh waters murmuring ; And the short interval of pleasant talk Till supper - time , when many a syren voice Sung down the stars ; and , as they left the sky , The torches , planted in the sparkling ...
Pagina 80
... round the sceptre of her political power , and by their talents , their grandeur of mind , or their eccentricities , serve to withdraw the mind from the painful contemplation of civil violence , crimes , and disasters . PONTI SAN . A ...
... round the sceptre of her political power , and by their talents , their grandeur of mind , or their eccentricities , serve to withdraw the mind from the painful contemplation of civil violence , crimes , and disasters . PONTI SAN . A ...
Pagina 83
... round the old Etruscan style , without depriving it of the firm square form and heavy projecting cornices . To Michael Angelo is due the honor of combining the different styles so as to preserve the basis of the Etruscan , varied by ...
... round the old Etruscan style , without depriving it of the firm square form and heavy projecting cornices . To Michael Angelo is due the honor of combining the different styles so as to preserve the basis of the Etruscan , varied by ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
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...