A Classical Tour Through Italy, 1. sējumsBaudry's European Library, 1837 |
Citi izdevumi - Skatīt visu
Bieži izmantoti vārdi un frāzes
adorned alluded Alps altar ancient Ancona antiquity Apennines appearance appellation arches architecture banks Basilica beautiful Bologna Bramante called Campus Martius cathedral Catullus celebrated chapel Christian church Cicero Cluverius columns Corinthian covered decorations delightful dome edifice elevation Emperor entablature erected feet French gallery gardens glory grand groves hall hill honor hundred inhabitants inscription Italian Italy lake latter lofty magnificence Mantua marble miles Misenus modern Monte monuments mountains Naples noble object observed ornaments Padua paintings palace passed perhaps Peter's pillars plain poet Pomptine marshes pontiff Pope porphyry portico present principal Puteoli quæ reader remains rises river road rock Roman Rome ruins sacred scene scenery seat seems shade side splendor stands statues summit supposed taste temple Thermæ Tiber Tibur tion tomb towers town Trajan traveller vast vault Venice Verona Via Appia Vicenza villa Virgil walls whole
Populāri fragmenti
115. lappuse - I look for streams immortaliz'd in song, That lost in silence and oblivion lie, (Dumb are their fountains and their channels dry) Yet run for ever by the Muses' skill, And in the smooth description murmur still.
169. lappuse - I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls; and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina; silence is in the house of her fathers.
32. lappuse - It is indeed fortunate, that religion has penetrated these fastnesses impervious to human power, and spread her influence over solitudes where human laws are of no avail ; that where precaution is impossible, and resistance useless, tfhe spreads her invisible ^gis over the traveller, and conducts him secure under her protection, through all the dangers of the way.
265. lappuse - When the pope celebrates divine service, as on Easter Sunday, Christmas Day, Whit Sunday, St. Peter and St. Paul, &c. the great or middle doors of the church are thrown open at ten, and the procession, formed of all the persons mentioned above, preceded by a beadle carrying the papal cross, and two others bearing lighted torches, enters and advances slowly in two long lines between two ranks of soldiers up the nave. This majestic procession is closed by the pontiff himself, seated in a chair of state...
166. lappuse - A herdsman seated on a pedestal while his oxen were drinking at the fountain, and a few passengers moving at a distance in different directions, were the only living beings that disturbed the silence and solitude which reigned around. Thus the place seemed restored to its original wildness described by Virgil, and abandoned once more to flocks and herds of cattle. So far...
340. lappuse - This scene, illuminated by a sun that never shines so bright on the less favoured regions beyond the Alps, is justly considered as the most splendid and beautiful exhibition which nature perhaps presents to the human eye, and cannot but excite in the spectator, when beheld for the first time, emotions of delight and admiration that border on enthusiasm.
249. lappuse - This front is supported by a single row of Corinthian pillars and pilasters, and adorned with an attic, a balustrade, and thirteen colossal statues. — Far behind and above it, rises the matchless Dome, the justly celebrated wonder of Rome and of the world. The colonnade of coupled pillars that surround and strengthen its vast base, the graceful attic that surmounts this colonnade, the bold and expansive swell of the dome itself, and the pyramid seated on a cluster of columns, and bearing the ball...
269. lappuse - The magnitude of the cross hanging as if self-supported, and like a vast meteor streaming in the air; the blaze that it pours forth; the mixture of light and shade cast on the pillars, arches, statues and altars; the crowd of spectators placed in all the different attitudes of curiosity, wonder and devotion; the processions with their banners and crosses gliding successively in silence along the nave and kneeling around the altar; the penitents of all nations and dresses collected in...
323. lappuse - Pomctium, a considerable town of the Volsci. Though this city was so opulent as to enable Tarquin to build the Capitol with its plunder, yet it had totally disappeared even before the time of Pliny. It is difficult to discover the precise date of the origin of these marshes. Homer, and after him Virgil, represent the abode of Circe as an island, and Pliny alluding to Homer quotes this opinion, and confirms it by the testimony of Theophrastus, who, in the year of Rome 440, gives this island a circumference...
173. lappuse - ... of Caracalla. The flues and reservoirs for water still remain. The height of the pile was proportioned to its extent, and still appears very considerable, even though the ground be raised at least twelve feet above its ancient level. It is now changed into gardens and vineyards : its high massive walls form separations, and its limy ruins spread over the surface, burn the soil, and check its natural fertility.