Letters from Europe: Comprising the Journal of a Tour Through Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Italy, and Switzerland in the Years 1825, '26, and '27G. & C. Carvill, 1829 - Europe |
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... Arches -- Ancient Temples -Coliseum . LETTER LVIII . - Rome continued Forum of Trajan - Pan- theon - Tomb of Raphael - Campus Martius - Mausoleum of Au- gustus - Banks of the Tiber -- Bridges - Castle of St. Angelo - Isl- and of ...
... Arches -- Ancient Temples -Coliseum . LETTER LVIII . - Rome continued Forum of Trajan - Pan- theon - Tomb of Raphael - Campus Martius - Mausoleum of Au- gustus - Banks of the Tiber -- Bridges - Castle of St. Angelo - Isl- and of ...
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... Arch of the Simplon - Gate of Marengo - Corso - Public Garden - Military Academy - Hospitals -Ambrosian Library - Gallery - Fresco of the Last Supper - The Brera - Academy of Fine Arts . 390 399 408 416 423 431 439 448 LETTER XCI ...
... Arch of the Simplon - Gate of Marengo - Corso - Public Garden - Military Academy - Hospitals -Ambrosian Library - Gallery - Fresco of the Last Supper - The Brera - Academy of Fine Arts . 390 399 408 416 423 431 439 448 LETTER XCI ...
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... arches of an extensive aqueduct , the uniform appendage of a Roman town , are yet standing . Pursuing a narrow ... arch near the modern promenade . All these pub- lic works indicate wealth , taste , and splendour . The port itself ...
... arches of an extensive aqueduct , the uniform appendage of a Roman town , are yet standing . Pursuing a narrow ... arch near the modern promenade . All these pub- lic works indicate wealth , taste , and splendour . The port itself ...
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... arch has been erected at its entrance , near the eastern barrier of the town . From this square on which the Hotel de Ville , Custom - House , and other public edifices are situated , a terraced road ex- tends on the north of the ...
... arch has been erected at its entrance , near the eastern barrier of the town . From this square on which the Hotel de Ville , Custom - House , and other public edifices are situated , a terraced road ex- tends on the north of the ...
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... arch thirty feet high and twenty wide . The excavation must have been the work of years . I am sure that no part of the Simplon can surpass the grandeur of this gallery , with a superincumbent mass of rocks rising to the height of a ...
... arch thirty feet high and twenty wide . The excavation must have been the work of years . I am sure that no part of the Simplon can surpass the grandeur of this gallery , with a superincumbent mass of rocks rising to the height of a ...
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Page 376 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 2 - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Page 308 - Blessed art thou, Simon Bar Jona, because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven. And I say to thee, that thou art Peter; and upon this rock will I build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Page 127 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 185 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 2 - In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ;
Page 169 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Page 151 - Byron has in three lines presented an exact image of this hill, which — " from out the plain Heaves, like a long swept wave about to break, And on the curl hangs pausing.
Page 435 - Aonio rediens deducam vertice Musas; primus Idumaeas referam tibi, Mantua, palmas et viridi in campo templum de marmore ponam propter aquam, tardis ingens ubi flexibus errat Mincius et tenera praetexit harundine ripas.
Page 422 - By turning the latter round to the right or to the left, as the case may be...