Rome, Ancient and Modern: And Its Environs, Volumen2author, 1844 - 933 páginas |
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Rome, Ancient and Modern: And Its Environs, Volumen2 Jeremiah Donovan Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página 455 - And when all beheld Him, where he lay, how changed from yesterday, Him in that hour cut off, and at his head His last great work ;
Página 400 - Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, The God of Life, and Poesy, and Light — The Sun in human limbs arrayed, and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight ; The shaft hath just been shot— the arrow bright With an Immortal's vengeance— in his eye And nostril beautiful Disdain, and Might And Majesty, flash their full lightnings by, Developing in that one glance the Deity.
Página 397 - With solemn pomp then sacrific'da steer; When, dreadful to behold, from sea we spied Two serpents, rank'd abreast, the seas divide, And smoothly sweep along the swelling tide. Their flaming crests above the waves they show ; Their bellies seem to burn the seas below; Their speckled tails advance to steer their course, And on the sounding shore the flying billows force. And now the strand, and now the plain they held; Their ardent eyes with bloody...
Página 401 - The mind with in its most unearthly mood, When each conception was a heavenly guest — A ray of immortality — and stood, Starlike, around, until they gather'd to a god ! CLXIII.
Página 266 - Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called Judgment by my name. I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts...
Página 333 - Yet however unequal I feel myself to that attempt, were I now to begin the world again, I would tread in the steps of that great master: to kiss the hem of his garment, to catch the slightest of his perfections, would be glory and .distinction enough. for an ambitious man, I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he intended to excite.
Página 484 - Britain, he collected the dusty manuscripts of the writers of antiquity ; and wherever the original could not be removed, a faithful copy was transcribed and transmitted for his use.
Página 398 - Or, turning to the Vatican, go see Laocoon's torture dignifying pain — A father's love and mortal's agony With an immortal's patience blending : — vain The struggle ; vain, against the coiling strain And gripe, and deepening of the dragon's grasp, The old man's clench ; the long envenom'd chain Rivets the living links, — the enormous asp Enforces pang on pang, and stifles gasp on gasp.
Página 398 - Then, with their sharpen'd fangs, their limbs and bodies grind. The wretched father, running to their aid With pious haste, but vain, they next invade ; Twice round his waist their winding volumes roll'd ; And twice about his gasping throat they fold. The priest thus doubly chok'd — their crests divide, And tow'ring o'er his head in triumph ride.
Página 398 - We fled amazed ; their destined way they take, And to Laocoon and his children make ; And first around the tender boys they wind, Then with their sharpen'd fangs their limbs and bodies grind.