Scenes and Sketches in Continental Europe: Embracing Descriptions of France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Sicily, Switzerland, Belgium, and Holland, Together with Interesting Notices of Their Principal Cities and TownsR. Sears, 1847 - 544 pages |
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... marble , by Couston and Coyzevox . In a chapel to the left of the choir , near the bottom of the church , is a monument to the memory of Cardinal de Belloy . The whole is of white marble , and of co- lossal proportions . The cardinal ...
... marble , by Couston and Coyzevox . In a chapel to the left of the choir , near the bottom of the church , is a monument to the memory of Cardinal de Belloy . The whole is of white marble , and of co- lossal proportions . The cardinal ...
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... marble figure of Christ on the Cross . The splendid edifice , or rather dome , of the Invalids , may be considered as the chef - d'œuvre of church - building in the age of Louis XIV . , and though certainly a magnificent edifice , is ...
... marble figure of Christ on the Cross . The splendid edifice , or rather dome , of the Invalids , may be considered as the chef - d'œuvre of church - building in the age of Louis XIV . , and though certainly a magnificent edifice , is ...
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... marble stat ues ; and opposite to these objects is the Madeleine . In a northern direction , at the end of the vista formed by the avenue of the Champs Elysées , is the Arc de Tri- omphe ; and opposite to that fine monument is the ...
... marble stat ues ; and opposite to these objects is the Madeleine . In a northern direction , at the end of the vista formed by the avenue of the Champs Elysées , is the Arc de Tri- omphe ; and opposite to that fine monument is the ...
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... marble , representing the arts and sciences . The foundation and model of this unexecuted conception remain as memorials of how sometimes " Vaulting ambition doth o'erleap itself . " The bronze for the enormous elephant was to have been ...
... marble , representing the arts and sciences . The foundation and model of this unexecuted conception remain as memorials of how sometimes " Vaulting ambition doth o'erleap itself . " The bronze for the enormous elephant was to have been ...
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... marble , of Henry IV . This edifice has been the theatre of many remarkable political events . The Mint is situated on the banks of the Seine , almost in the centre of Paris . The first stone was laid by the comptroller - general of the ...
... marble , of Henry IV . This edifice has been the theatre of many remarkable political events . The Mint is situated on the banks of the Seine , almost in the centre of Paris . The first stone was laid by the comptroller - general of the ...
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Page 218 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Page 318 - He heard it, but he heeded not : his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He recked 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, Butchered to make a Roman holiday, — All this rushed with his blood.
Page 218 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him ! But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Page 58 - OF all things, an indiscreet tampering with the trade of provisions is the most dangerous, and it is always worst in the time when men are most disposed to it: that is in the time of scarcity.
Page 218 - We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning.
Page 217 - I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice!
Page 217 - It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me;" — and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight.
Page 284 - A woman clothed with the sun, having the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
Page 318 - 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 294 - Treason's race, The promontory whence the Traitor's Leap Cured all ambition. Did the conquerors heap Their spoils here ? Yes ; and in yon field below, A thousand years of silenced factions sleep — The Forum, where the immortal accents glow, And still the eloquent air breathes — burns with Cicero...