The Grand Moving Panoramic Mirror of Italy

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1850 - 53 páginas
 

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Página 19 - are theyî Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ¡ — their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts. Not so thou ; Unchangeable, save
Página 26 - Oh Rome 1 my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance? Come and
Página 4 - The Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunder-bolt of snow I All that expands the spirit, yet
Página 26 - 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 4 - The Goth, the Christian, time, war, flood and fire, Have dealt upon the seven-hill'd city's pride; She saw her glories, star by star, expire. And up the steep Barbarian
Página 32 - Venerable Bede," who records the famous prophecy of the Anglo-Saxon pilgrims— " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand, When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall
Página 12 - in their sarcophagus, repose The bones of Laura's lover : here repair Many familiar with his well-sung woes, The pilgrims of his genius. He arose To raise a language, and his land reclaim From
Página 12 - dull yoke of her barbaric foes: Watering the tree which bears his lady's name, With his melodious tears, he gave himself to fame.
Página 19 - obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts. Not so thou ; Unchangeable, save in thy wild waves' play, Time writes no wrinkle on
Página 44 - The excavations were indeed continued occasionally, but negligently, and rather for the purpose of profit than liberal curiosity. However, a Basilica, two temples and a theatre, were successively discovered, and stripped of their numerous pillars and statues. Streets were observed paved and flagged

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