The Christmas Holydays in RomeD. Appleton & Company, 1846 - 334 pages |
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Page 25
... magnificent buildings . The population has since travelled northward , and gradually encroached upon it , until now it is the most thickly settled district . Thus it is that the old landmarks connect the past with the present , and ...
... magnificent buildings . The population has since travelled northward , and gradually encroached upon it , until now it is the most thickly settled district . Thus it is that the old landmarks connect the past with the present , and ...
Page 31
... magnificent temple of Jupiter Latiaris . How often must the patriot and consul have turned to it with the deepest reverence ! There , once in each year , the Latin tribes assembled to hold their sacred festi- val , and together they ...
... magnificent temple of Jupiter Latiaris . How often must the patriot and consul have turned to it with the deepest reverence ! There , once in each year , the Latin tribes assembled to hold their sacred festi- val , and together they ...
Page 38
... magnificent fanes which the worship- pers of the old mythology raised to their fabled deities . For more than three centuries , the energies and wealth of thirty- five Pontiffs were devoted to this work , and the aid of the whole ...
... magnificent fanes which the worship- pers of the old mythology raised to their fabled deities . For more than three centuries , the energies and wealth of thirty- five Pontiffs were devoted to this work , and the aid of the whole ...
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... magnificent pile seem to have shared these feelings , and to have determined that nothing should be here which in the lapse of time might perish . But in the wide Transepts is a sight , which cannot but arrest the attention of every one ...
... magnificent pile seem to have shared these feelings , and to have determined that nothing should be here which in the lapse of time might perish . But in the wide Transepts is a sight , which cannot but arrest the attention of every one ...
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... magnificent bronze doors , and are trans- ported back to the days of heathenism . The artist drew his inspiration from no source more hallowed than the meta- morphoses of Ovid ; and Ganymede and the Eagle , with Leda and the Swan - the ...
... magnificent bronze doors , and are trans- ported back to the days of heathenism . The artist drew his inspiration from no source more hallowed than the meta- morphoses of Ovid ; and Ganymede and the Eagle , with Leda and the Swan - the ...
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