Holidays Abroad: Or, Europe from the West, Bind 2Baker and Scribner, 1849 |
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Side 15
... marble seats and statues , beautiful to behold , but very odd for a place of business , though I do not know why they should be so . From Torlonia's to the Baths of Titus - what a con- trast ! To - day - and a past which almost leaves ...
... marble seats and statues , beautiful to behold , but very odd for a place of business , though I do not know why they should be so . From Torlonia's to the Baths of Titus - what a con- trast ! To - day - and a past which almost leaves ...
Side 16
... marble covering , of their columns , of their very shape , require to be introduced to the beholder by name , in order to command any respect at all . They are not in their appearance at all more dignified than the tottering walls and ...
... marble covering , of their columns , of their very shape , require to be introduced to the beholder by name , in order to command any respect at all . They are not in their appearance at all more dignified than the tottering walls and ...
Side 19
... marble , but which is in bronze ; at a thousand statues each one of which would have detained us long if we had seen it singly - to the Dying Gladiator , which the learned decide to be no gladiator but a dying Gaul , described by Pliny ...
... marble , but which is in bronze ; at a thousand statues each one of which would have detained us long if we had seen it singly - to the Dying Gladiator , which the learned decide to be no gladiator but a dying Gaul , described by Pliny ...
Side 24
... marbles , which fill the eye on every side , without any cumbrousness or ex- travagance or the least appearance of mere expense for expense's sake , observable in so many churches . A hun- dred marble cherubs , each larger than a man ...
... marbles , which fill the eye on every side , without any cumbrousness or ex- travagance or the least appearance of mere expense for expense's sake , observable in so many churches . A hun- dred marble cherubs , each larger than a man ...
Side 32
... marble interested me much to - day - nothing can be more wonderful than the expression given to these brute faces ... marbles , which line the open corridors around the cortile , are among the most splendid things here . The perfection ...
... marble interested me much to - day - nothing can be more wonderful than the expression given to these brute faces ... marbles , which line the open corridors around the cortile , are among the most splendid things here . The perfection ...
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Alps American amusing ancient appearance arches artist beautiful carriage castle cathedral charming Chiavenna church clean Colosseum curious dinner door dress elegant England English eyes feel feet French gallery garden gentleman Ghent give goitre grand Haarlem horses Hotel imagination immense interest Interlachen Italian Italy Jan Steen ladies lake least light look Lungern magnificent marble Martigny Mont Blanc morning mosaic mountain Naples never omnibus ornamented ourselves painted palace pass perfect perhaps Peter's picturesque pleasant pleasure Pompei portrait Posilipo Pozzuoli pretty priest Rhine rich Rigi road Rome ruins scene Schlangenbad seemed seen shore side sort splendid Splügen statue steamer stone street Swiss Switzerland table d'hôte taste Temple things thought tion tomb took towers town traveller Vesuvius Vevay villa Villa Muti walk walls whole women wonderful young
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Side 188 - Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Side 188 - A sunbeam which hath lost its way, And through the crevice and the cleft Of the thick wall is fallen and left...
Side 188 - Dying as their father died, For the God their foes denied ; Three were in a dungeon cast, Of whom this wreck is left the last.
Side 226 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united! For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Side 30 - When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath. " And they rose up and put him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw him down headlong.