Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy: Including the Papal States, Rome, and the Cities of Etruria, with a Traveling MapJ. Murray and son, 1843 - 568 pages |
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... Baths of Diocle- tian , have made little progress , compared to the manufacture of hemp and flax . The ropes and cordage produced in the asylums , public schools , and private rope - yards are of superior quality , and are exported to ...
... Baths of Diocle- tian , have made little progress , compared to the manufacture of hemp and flax . The ropes and cordage produced in the asylums , public schools , and private rope - yards are of superior quality , and are exported to ...
Page xxiv
... baths , the theatres , & c . , we have , as the leading cha- racteristics , a combination of the arch with the Grecian orders , in which for the first time columns are employed , not as essentials to the stability of the structure , but ...
... baths , the theatres , & c . , we have , as the leading cha- racteristics , a combination of the arch with the Grecian orders , in which for the first time columns are employed , not as essentials to the stability of the structure , but ...
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... Baths of Caracalla . ERRATA . P. 35 , col . 1 , line 24 from top , for fama read fame . P. 274 , col . 2 , line 9 , 13 , 22 , for clivis read clivus . P. 350 , col . 2 , line 31 , for Clement XII . read Clement VI . A HANDBOOK FOR ...
... Baths of Caracalla . ERRATA . P. 35 , col . 1 , line 24 from top , for fama read fame . P. 274 , col . 2 , line 9 , 13 , 22 , for clivis read clivus . P. 350 , col . 2 , line 31 , for Clement XII . read Clement VI . A HANDBOOK FOR ...
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... bath , the other of the same goddess on foot ; a male torso , attributed to Augustus , found in the Via di S. Ma- molo ; an Isiac table of black basalt , found on the Aventine in 1709 , and an elliptical vase of porphyry . the next ...
... bath , the other of the same goddess on foot ; a male torso , attributed to Augustus , found in the Via di S. Ma- molo ; an Isiac table of black basalt , found on the Aventine in 1709 , and an elliptical vase of porphyry . the next ...
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... Baths have been discovered . The Palazzo Aldrovandi , a name in itself full of interesting recollections , was almost entirely rebuilt in 1748 , by Card . Pompeo Aldrovandi , on a scale of grandeur worthy the fame of that illustrious ...
... Baths have been discovered . The Palazzo Aldrovandi , a name in itself full of interesting recollections , was almost entirely rebuilt in 1748 , by Card . Pompeo Aldrovandi , on a scale of grandeur worthy the fame of that illustrious ...
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Page 433 - 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 hail'd the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not - his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away...
Page 133 - The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues Have I lik'd several women ; never any With so full soul, but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow'd, And put it to the foil: But you, O you, So perfect, and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.
Page 238 - And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal April to the ground, Making it all one emerald : — how profound The gulf! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which, downward worn and rent With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent...
Page 237 - The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, LXX.
Page 238 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a deathbed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn ; Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
Page 238 - 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...
Page 94 - The shrill cicalas, people of the pine, Making their summer lives one ceaseless song, Were the sole echoes, save my steed's and mine, And vesper bell's that rose the boughs along...
Page 336 - But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone — with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook his former city, what could be, Of earthly structures, in his honour piled, Of a sublimer aspect ? Majesty, Power, Glory, Strength, and Beauty, all are aisled In this eternal ark of worship undefiled.
Page 433 - Were with his heart, and that was far away; He reck'd not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother— he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday— All this rush'd with his blood— Shall he expire And unavenged? Arise! ye Goths, and glut your ire!
Page 397 - Now on the dead, then on that master-piece, Now on his face, lifeless and colourless, Then on those forms divine that lived and breathed, And would live on for ages — all were moved; And sighs burst forth, and loudest lamentations.