Letters from Europe, the journal of a tour through Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Italy, and Switzerland, in 1825, '26, and '27, Volume 2 |
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... altars , better suited to the oracles of the Delphic god , or the divinity at Ephesus , than to the meek and lowly religion of the Redeemer . The same spirit still exists , without the same wealth to support it , and the consequence is ...
... altars , better suited to the oracles of the Delphic god , or the divinity at Ephesus , than to the meek and lowly religion of the Redeemer . The same spirit still exists , without the same wealth to support it , and the consequence is ...
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... altars in this church , having been brought hither from a town in Lysia , where he died . Among the relics of the Cathedral is the celebrated Catino , or emerald dish out of which tra- dition says that the Saviour ate the pascal lamb ...
... altars in this church , having been brought hither from a town in Lysia , where he died . Among the relics of the Cathedral is the celebrated Catino , or emerald dish out of which tra- dition says that the Saviour ate the pascal lamb ...
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... Altar , partly by Raphael and partly by his pupil Julio Romano . The subject is the stoning of St. Stephen , and the picture has been much admired by connoisseurs , as well as by some who are not connoisseurs . Even to our unskilful ...
... Altar , partly by Raphael and partly by his pupil Julio Romano . The subject is the stoning of St. Stephen , and the picture has been much admired by connoisseurs , as well as by some who are not connoisseurs . Even to our unskilful ...
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... altars to the munificence of the family of Lomelini , formerly the proprietors and sovereigns of the little isle of Tabarca in the Mediterranean , whence they were routed by the Tunisians , who took possession 62 LETTERS FROM EUROPE .
... altars to the munificence of the family of Lomelini , formerly the proprietors and sovereigns of the little isle of Tabarca in the Mediterranean , whence they were routed by the Tunisians , who took possession 62 LETTERS FROM EUROPE .
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... altars , which rise along its dusky aisles , and an immense crowd of both sexes were engaged in the solemn chant . The public ceremonies on the evening of that day struck us with utter astonishment , much as had been heard of the ...
... altars , which rise along its dusky aisles , and an immense crowd of both sexes were engaged in the solemn chant . The public ceremonies on the evening of that day struck us with utter astonishment , much as had been heard of the ...
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Page 160 - 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 381 - 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 288 - 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 105 - 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 298 - Oh, sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains piled on mountains, to the skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
Page 224 - The King of France with twenty thousand men, • Marched up the hill, and then marched down again.
Page 144 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Page 435 - By turning the latter round to the right or to the left, as the case may be...