Roba Di Roma, Volume 1Chapman & Hall, 1864 - Rome (Italy) |
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... hundred in the city ) to play before them at the rate of a paul or so for each full novena , and as they can easily play before thirty or forty a day , they often return , if their luck be good , with a tolerable little sum in their ...
... hundred in the city ) to play before them at the rate of a paul or so for each full novena , and as they can easily play before thirty or forty a day , they often return , if their luck be good , with a tolerable little sum in their ...
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... hundreds of little songlets , which they shout under the windows of their sposine and lady - loves . Most of them consist of few lines , and all are variations upon the same theme . The stout contadina is a queen , a noble lady , a ...
... hundreds of little songlets , which they shout under the windows of their sposine and lady - loves . Most of them consist of few lines , and all are variations upon the same theme . The stout contadina is a queen , a noble lady , a ...
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... hundred and thirty - five steps , planned with considerable skill , so as to mask the steepness of the Pincian , and forming the chief feature of the Piazza . Various landings and dividing walls break up their monotony ; and a red ...
... hundred and thirty - five steps , planned with considerable skill , so as to mask the steepness of the Pincian , and forming the chief feature of the Piazza . Various landings and dividing walls break up their monotony ; and a red ...
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... present of a hideous accident or malady ; it is a stock to set up trade upon . St. Vitus's dance is worth its hundreds of scudi annually ; epileptic fits are also a prize ; 66 and a distorted leg and hare - lip have 30 ROBA DI ROMA .
... present of a hideous accident or malady ; it is a stock to set up trade upon . St. Vitus's dance is worth its hundreds of scudi annually ; epileptic fits are also a prize ; 66 and a distorted leg and hare - lip have 30 ROBA DI ROMA .
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... hundred of which she ordered to be laid out upon her funeral , and the remainder to be appropriated to masses for her soul . This was accordingly done , and her squalid life ended in a pompous procession to the grave . The great ...
... hundred of which she ordered to be laid out upon her funeral , and the remainder to be appropriated to masses for her soul . This was accordingly done , and her squalid life ended in a pompous procession to the grave . The great ...
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Page 76 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down...
Page 214 - Sometimes it seems to us in our despair that as it was in the beginning, it is now, and ever shall be ! Is it because the true prophet worships Truth, whilst the priest too often worships Form?
Page 190 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls — the World.
Page 246 - Mercator metuens otium et oppidi Laudat rura sui ; mox reficit rates Quassas indocilis pauperiem pati. Est qui nee veteris pocula Massici Nee partem solido demere de die Spernit, nunc viridi membra sub arbuto Stratus, nunc ad aquae lene caput sacrae.
Page 56 - So, too, at Rome, the Emperors become as familiar as the Popes. Who does not know the curly-headed Marcus Aurelius, with his lifted brow and projecting eyes — from the full, round beauty of his youth to the more haggard look of his latest years ? Are there any modern portraits more familiar than the severe, wedge-like head of Augustus, with his sharp-cut lips and nose, — or the dull phiz of Hadrian, with his hair combed down over his low forehead, — or the vain, perking face of Lucius Verus,...
Page 53 - Shepherds guard their flocks far away, reposing under palm-trees or standing on green slopes which glow in the sunshine. The distances and perspective are admirable. In the middle ground is a crystal fountain of glass, near which sheep, preternaturally white, and made of real wool and cottonwool, are feeding, tended by figures of shepherds carved in wood. Still nearer come women bearing great baskets of real oranges and other fruits on their heads. All the nearer figures are full-sized, carved in...
Page 63 - Eustachio, — and a curious spectacle it is. The Piazza itself (which is situated in the centre of the city, just beyond the Pantheon), and all the adjacent streets, are lined with booths covered with every kind of plaything for children. Most of these are of Roman make, very rudely fashioned, and very cheap ; but for those who have longer purses, there are not wanting heaps of German and French toys. These booths are gaily illuminated with rows of candles and the...
Page 225 - O, the motions that I, Lanthorn Leatherhead, have given light to, in my time, since my Master Pod died ! Jerusalem was a stately thing, and so was Nineveh, and the City of Norwich, and Sodom and Gomorrah...
Page 237 - ... other studies of the curriculum? We must grant the obvious intimate connection between ability to secure meaning from the printed page and the power to enter into an experiencing of literary material. Reading includes literary experiencing and the latter unquestionably works to improve the former; but there is all the difference between the two that there is between practicing scales and playing a piece of music, between developing platform ease and swaying an audience, between learning conjugations...
Page 5 - Every Englishman carries a Murray for information and a Byron for sentiment, and finds out by them what he is to know and feel at every step. Pictures and statues have been staled by copy and description, until everything is stereotyped, from the Dying Gladiator, with his "young barbarians all at play...