The Classic and Connoisseur in Italy and Sicily: With an Appendix Containing an Abridged Translation of Lanzi's Storia Pittorica, Volumen1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1835 |
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Página 160 - The wandering streams that shine between the hills, The grots that echo to the tinkling rills, The dying gales that pant upon the trees, The lakes that quiver to the curling breeze But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like
Página 340 - as it is written and recorded in that sacred volume, which, in the words of Locke, has ' God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.'
Página 355 - on it, and surmounted by a coronet! Others bear the arms of those foreign sovereigns who protect the palace; thus insulting the Roman government as an impotent presbytery*"— Of priests, and cowards, and men cautelous, Old feeble carrions, and such suffering souls As welcome wrongs.
Página 1 - Tho' sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And life, that bloated e*ase may never hope to share!
Página 160 - upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm; A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. On
Página 287 - stabit et Roma; quando cadet Colysaeus, cadet et Roma; quando cadet Roma, cadet et mundus:"— While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls—the
Página 160 - and a dead repose: Her gloomy presence saddens every scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green; Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror o'er the woods. On
Página 160 - a recollection of Vallombrosa, which Crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied; and overhead upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm; A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Página 425 - with his fore-feet, and it seemed that he that sat upon the horse had complete harness of gold. Moreover, two other young men appeared before him, notable in strength, excellent in beauty, and comely in apparel, who stood by him on either side, and scourged him continually, and gave him many sore stripes.
Página 419 - my own disappointment when I first visited the Vatican; but on confessing my feelings to a brother student, of whose ingenuousness I had a high opinion, he acknowledged that the works of Raphael had the same effect on him, or rather that they did not produce the effect which he expected.