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Page iii
... Europe in which generalization ought least to be attempted . Being detached from diverse races , Greek and Asiatic , to which were afterwards added others from the North and West , the frequent invasions by various peoples that have in ...
... Europe in which generalization ought least to be attempted . Being detached from diverse races , Greek and Asiatic , to which were afterwards added others from the North and West , the frequent invasions by various peoples that have in ...
Page viii
... Europe , and Frenchmen and Englishmen will think they find in Italy some resemblance to the lands they have left . It is then a land of plenty and of laborious habits , and would be a land of industry and commerce , were commerce and in ...
... Europe , and Frenchmen and Englishmen will think they find in Italy some resemblance to the lands they have left . It is then a land of plenty and of laborious habits , and would be a land of industry and commerce , were commerce and in ...
Page ix
... Europe are the limits of the seasons so distinctly marked as in that peninsula . Hence we find united in the people the four principal qualities that distinguish nations placed under the influence of particular climates , such as the ...
... Europe are the limits of the seasons so distinctly marked as in that peninsula . Hence we find united in the people the four principal qualities that distinguish nations placed under the influence of particular climates , such as the ...
Page x
... Europe what a trea- sure of sincerity lay in the hearts of a people usually charged with want of sincerity . That was the expression of a people free , independent , in the first moments of their recovered liberty . Now what idea ought ...
... Europe what a trea- sure of sincerity lay in the hearts of a people usually charged with want of sincerity . That was the expression of a people free , independent , in the first moments of their recovered liberty . Now what idea ought ...
Page xv
... European civilization , by its reflux from the Alps , and by breaking down the dykes which the despotism of Austria and the intolerance of the Vatican have erected along the extreme frontiers of the country , finds a way for itself ...
... European civilization , by its reflux from the Alps , and by breaking down the dykes which the despotism of Austria and the intolerance of the Vatican have erected along the extreme frontiers of the country , finds a way for itself ...
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Page 87 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls — the World.
Page 87 - It will not bear the brightness of the day, Which streams too much on all years, man, have reft away.
Page 110 - And from thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli...
Page 34 - In Santa Croce's holy precincts lie Ashes which make it holier, dust which is Even in itself an immortality, Though there were nothing save the past, and this The particle of those sublimities Which have relapsed to chaos : here repose Angelo's, Alfieri's bones, and his, The starry Galileo, with his woes ; Here Machiavelli's earth return'd to whence it rose.
Page 53 - To the broad column which rolls on, and shows More like the fountain of an infant sea Torn from the womb of mountains by the throes Of a new world, than only thus to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings, through the vale: — Look -back! Lo! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in its track, Charming the eye with dread, a matchless cataract, Horribly beautiful!
Page 110 - THEY stand between the mountains and the sea ; *" Awful memorials, but of whom we know not ! The seaman, passing, gazes from the deck. The buffalo-driver, in his shaggy cloak, Points to the work of magic and moves on. Time was they stood along the crowded street, Temples of gods ! and on their ample steps What various habits, various tongues, beset The brazen gates for prayer and sacrifice...
Page 65 - Reigned absolute, the mistress of the world ; The mighty vision that the prophets saw, And trembled ; that from nothing, from the least, The lowliest village (what but here and there A reed-roofed cabin by a river side ?) Grew into every thing : and, year by year, Patiently, fearlessly working her way O'er brook and field, o'er continent and sea...
Page 22 - Extreme in all things! hadst thou been betwixt, Thy throne had still been thine, or never been; For Daring made thy rise as fall: thou seek'st Even now to re-assume the imperial mien, And shake again the world, the Thunderer of the scene!
Page 87 - The garland forest, which the gray walls wear, Like laurels on the bald first Caesar's head ; When the light shines serene but doth not glare, Then in this magic circle raise the dead : Heroes have trod this spot — 'tis on their dust ye tread.
Page 107 - To he the scorn of them that knew him not, Trampling alike the giver and his gift, The gift a pearl precious, inestimable, A lay divine, a lay of love and war, To charm, ennoble, and, from age to age, Sweeten the labour, when the oar was plied Or on the ADRIAN or the TUSCAN sea.