Handbook for travellers in central Italy [by O. Blewitt].1875 |
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Seite 281 - And put it to the foil : but you, O you, So perfect, and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.
Seite 411 - And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal April to the ground, Making it all one emerald : — how profound The gulf ! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which, downward worn and rent, With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent LXXI.
Seite 411 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
Seite 421 - Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye I Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay.
Seite 58 - John de Bologna, after he had finished a group of a young man holding up a young woman in his arms, with an old man at his feet, called his friends together, to tell him what name he should give it, and it was agreed to call it The Rape of the Sabines*; and this is the celebrated group which now stands before the old Palace at Florence.
Seite 353 - Ancor li piedi nell' arena arsiccia; Ma sempre al bosco li ritieni stretti. 75 Tacendo ne venimmo là ove spiccia Fuor della selva un picciol fiumicello, Lo cui rossore ancor mi raccapriccia. Quale del Bulicame esce il ruscello, Che parton poi tra lor le peccatrici, 80 Tal per l' arena giù sen giva quello. Lo fondo suo ed ambo le pendici Fatt' eran pietra, ei margini da lato ; Perch' io m' accorsi che il passo era lici.
Seite 411 - To the broad column which rolls on, and shows More like the fountain of an infant sea Torn from the womb of mountains by the throes Of a new world, than only thus to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly With many windings, through the vale ; — Look back ; Lo ! where it comes like an eternity...
Seite 59 - THE STUDENT'S HUME ; A HISTORY OF ENGLAND, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE REVOLUTION IN 1688. By DAVID HUME. Incorporating the Corrections and Researches of recent Historians, and continued to 1868.
Seite 58 - THE STUDENT'S ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE EAST. From the Earliest Times to the Conquests of Alexander the Great, including Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, Media, Persia, Asia Minor, and Phoenicia. By PHILIP SMITH, BA With 70 Woodcuts.
Seite 394 - Com' poco verde in su la cima dura, Se non è giunta dall ' etati grosse! Credette Cimabue nella pintura Tener lo campo, ed ora ha Giotto il grido, Sì che la fama di colui oscura.