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Seite 311 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Seite 207 - Such reflections check our regret for its ruin. As it now stands, the Coliseum is a striking image of Rome itself — decayed, vacant, serious, yet grand...
Seite 382 - If detected in theft, a lazarone will ask you, with impudent surprise, how you could possibly expect a poor man to be an angel. Yet what are these wretches? Why, men whose persons might stand as models to a sculptor; whose gestures strike you with the commanding energy of a savage ; whose language, gaping and broad as it is, when kindled by passion, bursts into oriental metaphor ; whose ideas are cooped indeed within a narrow circle, but a circle in which they are invincible.
Seite 371 - THE MERCHANTS OF THESE THINGS, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, and saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls ! For in one hour so great riches is come to nought.
Seite 34 - The houses, though low on account of the earthquakes which frequently happen here, (as did one during my being in Italy), are very well built ; the piazza is very fair and commodious, and, with the church, whose four columns at the portico are of black marble polished, gave the first hint to the building both of the church and piazza in Covent Garden with us, though very imperfectly pursued.
Seite 333 - 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.
Seite 165 - Like Thebes, or Babylon, or Carthage, the name of Rome might have been erased from the earth, if the city had not been animated by a vital principle, which again restored her to honour and dominion.
Seite 379 - The crowd of London is uniform and intelligible : it is a double line in quick motion ; it is the crowd of business. The crowd of Naples consists in a general tide rolling up and down, and, in the middle of this tide, of a hundred eddies of men.
Seite 379 - This is a theatre where any stranger may study for nothing the manners of the people. At the theatre of San Carlo the mind, as well as the man, is parted off from its fellows in an elbow-chair.
Seite 94 - At RECANATI, they hang golden bells to their ear-rings, three or five to each chime, jingling like the crotalia of the Roman matrons. At Loretto, they adjust the handkerchief to their heads in the style of their Madonna. All the young men bind their hair in coloured nets, an ancient affectation of female attire, as appears from Juvenal's censure of the thing.