The Old World and the New: Or, A Journal of Reflections and Observations Made on a Tour in Europe, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1836 |
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... Age and childhood , toil and care , would resort there for repose , for recreation , for enjoyment , for society . In some of the bright summer evenings there would be music . In process of time there would be stat- ues and fountains ...
... Age and childhood , toil and care , would resort there for repose , for recreation , for enjoyment , for society . In some of the bright summer evenings there would be music . In process of time there would be stat- ues and fountains ...
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... age- respect for superiors ! Let the manners of a na- tion want this — let a people become ill - bred , coarse , and vulgar - let especially the youth of a country be growing more forward and presumptuous , and let there be no sense ...
... age- respect for superiors ! Let the manners of a na- tion want this — let a people become ill - bred , coarse , and vulgar - let especially the youth of a country be growing more forward and presumptuous , and let there be no sense ...
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... ages . Ange Allori : Descent from the Cross ; the sor- row of the mother . Yet no picture on this subject that I have seen here compares at all with that in the cathedral at Baltimore , by the French painter Guerin ; † compares with it ...
... ages . Ange Allori : Descent from the Cross ; the sor- row of the mother . Yet no picture on this subject that I have seen here compares at all with that in the cathedral at Baltimore , by the French painter Guerin ; † compares with it ...
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... age , ) of a Catholic miracle , the object of which is to convince a skep- tic of the real presence - I advise picture dealers to inquire for Sabatelli : and the studio of the sculptor Bartolini . Such beautiful statues are there , as ...
... age , ) of a Catholic miracle , the object of which is to convince a skep- tic of the real presence - I advise picture dealers to inquire for Sabatelli : and the studio of the sculptor Bartolini . Such beautiful statues are there , as ...
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... ages of history passed before me ; the mighty procession of nations - kings , consuls , emperors , empires , and generations , had passed over that sublime theatre . The fire , the storm , the 72 THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW .
... ages of history passed before me ; the mighty procession of nations - kings , consuls , emperors , empires , and generations , had passed over that sublime theatre . The fire , the storm , the 72 THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW .
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Page 199 - ... what shall we eat, and what shall we drink, and wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Page 76 - A school-boy on his bench, at early dawn Glowing with Roman story, I should live To tread the Appian...
Page 82 - A soldier stretched out his hand for " un dono," as we passed the guard ; and when my companion said I did wrong to give, I told him that I should have given my cloak, if the man had asked it.
Page 82 - Through a hundred rents in the broken walls, through a hundred lonely arches, and blackened passage-ways, it streamed in, pure, bright, soft, lambent, and yet distinct and clear, as if it came there at once to reveal, and cheer, and pity the mighty desolation. But if the Coliseum is a mournful and desolate spectacle as seen from within — without, and especially on the side which is in best preservation, it is glorious. We passed around...
Page 229 - What is to be done with these intervals ? This is the question, and it is a question to be soberly answered. It is to be met, I repeat, with answers, and not with surmises of danger. Men cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do ? Why, if they do not work, or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are...
Page 81 - I WENT to see the Colise'um by moonlight. It is the monarch, the majesty of all ruins ; there is nothing like it. All the associations of the place, too, give it the most impressive character. When you* enter within this stupendous circle of ruinous walls and arches, and grand terraces of masonry, rising one above another, you stand upon the arena of the old gladiatorial combats and Christian martyrdoms ; and as you lift your eyes to the vast amphitheater, you meet, in imagination, the eyes of a...
Page 81 - But to return to the Coliseum — we went up, under the conduct of a guide, upon the walls, and terraces, or embankments, which supported the ranges of seats. The seats have long since disappeared...
Page 81 - ... and now, as we picked our way carefully through decayed passages, or cautiously ascended some mouldering flight of steps, or stood by the lonely walls — ourselves silent, and, for a wonder, the guide silent too — there was no sound here but of the bat, and none came from without, but the roll of a distant carriage, or the convent bell, from the summit of the neighboring Esquiline.
Page 139 - John, as he stands just behind Thomas, and looks upon his rash act, is one to remember always. It seems to me the very personification of forbearance. He submits calmly that Thomas should do it — should satisfy himself — but yet he is exceedingly sorrowful. There is no surprise in his countenance; he knows human frailty ; he is not astonished at unbelief or hardness of heart; but it seems, at the same time, as if his own heart were broken at the spectacle. There is not the slightest rebuke in...
Page 136 - We approach, and find that we can scarcely reach to touch them, and they are eighteen inches or two feet long. We advance along the mighty central nave, and we see, nearly at the termination of it and beneath the dome, the high altar, surmounted by a canopy, raised on four twisted pillars of bronze.