An Autumn in Italy: Being a Personal Narrative of a Tour in the Austrian, Tuscan, Roman and Sardinian States, in 1827Constable and Company, 1829 - 346 páginas |
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admirable adorned Albergo Alps amongst amusement ancient antiquity Apennines appearance arch architecture artists attracted Austrian banks Baveno beautiful Bologna BORROMEAN ISLANDS bridge built Canova Cardinal carriage celebrated chiefly church colouring columns contains delightful display Duke edifice elegant Emperor English enjoy erected excellent favourable finest Florence foreign French fresco gallery Genoa Genoese Giulio Romano grand handsome hills honour inferior inhabitants Italian Italy La Scala ladies Lago Maggiore lake Lombardy Lugano Madonna magnificent manner marble masters ment Milan Milanese miles modern monument morning mountains native opera ornament painter painting palace passed Piazza Pisa Pope Porlezza possessed present prince remarkable residence road Roman Rome scene scenery Scipio Maffei sculpture side splendid splendour statues style taste theatre Tintoretto tion Titian tomb town travellers Tuscany Valais Vatican Venetian Venetian school Venice vetturino Villa walk walls
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Página 163 - The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, LXX.
Página 245 - John Keats died at Rome of a consumption, in his twenty-fourth year, on the of 1821 ; and was buried in the romantic and lonely cemetery of the Protestants in that city, under the pyramid which is the tomb of Cestius, and the massy walls and towers, now mouldering and desolate, which formed the circuit of ancient Rome. The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
Página 229 - Here didst thou dwell, here schemes of pleasure plan, Beneath yon mountain's ever beauteous brow; But now, as if a thing unblest by Man, Thy fairy dwelling is as lone as Thou! Here giant weeds a passage scarce allow To Halls deserted, portals gaping wide; Fresh lessons to the thinking bosom, how Vain are the pleasaunces on earth supplied; Swept into wrecks anon by Time's ungentle tide.
Página 163 - 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 cliff's, which, downward worn and rent With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent.
Página 163 - 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 " 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 I Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if...
Página 163 - The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams, shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl, and hiss, And boil, in endless torture : while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower...