A Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy: Including Lucca, Tuscany, Florence, the Marches, Umbria, Part of the Patrimony of St. Peter, and the Island of SardiniaJ. Murray, 1864 - 480 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
amongst ancient Ancona Andrea Andrea del Sarto angels Apennines arches architecture Arezzo Arno artist bas-reliefs beautiful Bologna Borgo bronze building built called carriage cathedral celebrated centre century centy chapel Chiusi choir church Civita Civita Vecchia cloister columns compartments contains Cosimo cross curious designs Donatello door Duke Duomo early edifice erected Etruscan executed façade Fiesole figures Florence Florentine Foligno Francesco Francis frescoes gallery Giotto Giovanni Gothic high altar hill inscription Italian Italy Leghorn Lorenzo Luca Luca della Robbia Luca Signorelli Lucca Madonna marble Maria Medici ment Michael Angelo Monte monument nave ornaments painted palace Palazzo Perugia Perugino Piazza picture Pietro Pisa Pisan Pistoia Ponte Porta portrait principal Raphael representing road Roman Rome sacristy Saints Santa sculpture side Siena specimens Stat statue style Tiber tion tomb town transept traveller Tuscan valley Vasari Vecchio Villa Virgin and Child walls
Pasajes populares
Página 400 - Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay.
Página 278 - The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear : for several virtues Have I liked several women ; never any With so full soul, but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil : but you, O you, So perfect, and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.
Página 408 - 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 That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, LXX.
Página 408 - 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!
Página 92 - And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
Página 408 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
Página 64 - Poi ch' ebbe sospirando il capo scosso : A ciò non fu' io sol, disse, né certo Senza cagion sarei con gli altri mosso : Ma fu' io sol colà, dove sofferto Fu per ciascun di torre via Fiorenza, Colui, che la difesi a viso aperto. Dch se riposi mai vostra semenza, Prega' io lui, solvetemi quel nodo, Che qui ha inviluppata mia sentenza.
Página 46 - A most refreshing preparation for the complexion, dispelling the cloud of languor and relaxation, allaying all heat and irritability, and immediately affording the pleasing sensation attending restored elasticity and healthful state of the Skin. Freckles, Tan Spots, Pimples, Flushes, and Discoloration fly before its application, and give place to ,a healthy and clear complexion.
Página 384 - Intra Tupino e l'acqua che discende Del colle eletto dal beato Ubaldo, Fertile costa d'alto monte pende, Onde Perugia sente freddo e caldo Da Porta Sole, e dirietro le piange Per greve giogo Nocera con Gualdo. Di...
Página 190 - Never could the sympathies of the soul with outward nature be more finely touched ; never could more striking suggestions be presented to the philosopher and the statesman. Florence lay beneath them ; not with all the magnificence that the later Medici have given her, but, thanks to the piety of former times, presenting almost as varied an outline to the sky. One man, the wonder of Cosmo's age, Brunelleschi, had crowned the beautiful city with the vast dome of its cathedral; a structure unthought...