Remarks on Antiquities, Arts and Letters During an Excursion in Italy in the Years 1802 and 1803P.G. Ledouble, 1820 - 687 páginas |
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Página 556 - is the person you want," and left him locked up in the mysterious assembly. These were men who imagined themselves equal at that time, to treat with him for the throne of England. " Dispose of me, gentlemen, as you please," said Charles ; " my life is in your power, and I therefore can stipulate for nothing. Yet give me, I entreat, one solemn promise, that if your design should succeed, the present family shall be sent safely and honourably home.
Página 532 - If detected in theft, a lazzaroni will ask you, with impudent surprise, how you could possibly expect a poor man to be an angel. Yet what are these wretches ? Why, men, whose persons might stand as models to a sculptor ; whose gestures strike you with the commanding energy of a savage ; whose language, gaping and broad as it is, when kindled by passion, bursts into oriental metaphor ; whose ideas, indeed, are cooped within a narrow circle but a circle in which they are invincible.
Página 11 - while the capital of a republic, was celebrated for its profusion of marble, its patrician towers, and its grave magnificence. It still can boast some marble churches, a marble palace, and a marble bridge. Its towers, though no longer a mark of nobility, may be traced in the walls of modernized houses. Its gravity pervades every street ; but its magnificence is now confined to one sacred corner. There...
Página 322 - Soracte, Frascati, the Campagna, and Rome in the distance ; these form a succession of landscapes superior, in the delight produced, to the richest cabinet of Claude's. Tivoli cannot be described : no true portrait of it exists : all views alter and embellish it : they are poetical translations of the matchless original. Indeed, when you come to detail the hill, some defect of harmony will ever be found in the foreground or distance, something in the swell or channelling of its sides, something in...
Página 50 - I saw nothing here so grand as the group of Niobe ; if statues which are now disjointed and placed equidistantly round a room, may be so called. Niobe herself, clasped by the arm of her terrified child, is certainly a group ; and whether the head be original or not, the contrast of passion, of beauty, and even of dress, is admirable. The dress of the other daughters appears too thin, too meretricious, for dying princesses. Some of the sons exert too much attitude. Like gladiators, they seem taught...
Página 179 - Rome itself : — decayed — vacant — serious — yet grand ; — half grey and half green — erect on one side and fallen on the other, with consecrated ground in its bosom — inhabited by a beadsman ; visited by every east ; for moralists , antiquaries , painters , architects , devotees , all meet here to meditate , to examine , to draw , to measure , and to pray.
Página 274 - His taste generally descends to his heirs, who mark their little reigns by successive additions to the stock. How seldom are great fortunes spent so elegantly in England! How many are absorbed in the table, the field, or the turf! — expenses which centre and end in the rich egotist himself.
Página 350 - ... to an artist , to a man of pleasure , to any man that can be happy among people who seldom, affect virtue , perhaps there is no residence in Europe so tempting as Naples and its environs. — What variety of attractions...
Página 58 - Fantastic! is now the improvvisatriceof the day. This lady convenes at her house a crowd of admirers, whenever she chooses to be inspired. The first time I attended her accademia, a young lady of the same family and name as the great Michael Angelo began the evening by repeating some verses of her own composition. Presently La Fantastic! broke out into song in the words of the motto, and astonished me by her rapidity and command of number?, which flowed in praise of the fair poetess, and brought...
Página 351 - A climate where heaven's breath smells sweet and wooingly — a vigorous and luxuriant nature unparalleled in its productions — a coast which was once the fairy land of poets, and the favourite retreat of great men. Even the tyrants of the creation loved this alluring region, spared it, adorned it, lived in it, died in it.