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.... The Old World and the New: Or, A Journal of Reflections and Observations ... - Page 82by Orville Dewey - 1836Full view - About this book
| 1836 - 706 pages
...it streamed in, pure, bright, soft, lambent, and vet distinct and clear, as if it came there at onoc to reveal, and cheer, and pity the mighty desolation....which is in best preservation, it is glorious. We passŤ! around it ; and, as we looked upward, the moon shining through its arches, from the opposite... | |
| Orville Dewey - 1836 - 760 pages
...if it came there at once to reveal, and cheer, and pity the mighty desolation. But if ' the Ooliseum is a mournful and desolate spectacle as seen from...especially on the .side which is in best preservation j it is glorious. We passed around it ; and, as we looked upward, the moon shining through its arches,... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pages
...desolation. But if the Coliseum is a mournful and desolate spectacle as seen from within—withoitt, and especially on the side which is in best preservation, it is glorious. We passed around v it; and, as we looked upward, the moon shining through its arches, from the opposite side, it appeared... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1862 - 558 pages
...moonlight." The latter says, "It is the monarch, the majesty of all ruins; there is nothing like it. Though a mournful and desolate spectacle as seen from within...side which is in best preservation, it is glorious." 1 PT-LAS'-TF.R8 nre pquarc columns, usually ret within walls, and projecting only one quarter of their... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 pages
...if it came there at once to reveal, and cheer, and pity the mighty desolation. But if the Colis6'um is a mournful and desolate spectacle as seen from...arches, from the opposite side it appeared as if it were tke coronet of the heavens, so vast was it — or like a glorious crown upon the brow of night. 4.... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 pages
...called the Great, was born AD 274, proclaimed cinperor of Rome by the army in IJOG, and died in 3:57. 3. It is scarcely possible to describe the effect of...— or like a glorious crown upon the brow of night. 4. I feel that I do not and can not describe this mighty ruin. I can only say that I came away paralyzed,... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 758 pages
...neighboring Esquiline. 4. It is scarcely possible to describe the effect of moonlight upon this ruin. Through a hundred lonely arches, and blackened passage-ways,...— or like a glorious crown upon the brow of night. 5. I feel that I do not and can not describe this mighty ruin. I can only say that I came away paralyzed,... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 pages
...It is scarcely possible to describe the effect of moonlight upon this ruin. Through a hundred reuts in the broken walls, through a hundred lonely arches...best preservation, it is glorious. "We passed around ifc ; and, as we looked upward, the moon shining through its arches, from the opposite side it appeared... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 466 pages
...neighboring Esquiline. 4. It is scarcely possible to describe the effect of moonlight upon this ruin. Through a hundred lonely arches, and blackened passage-ways,...appeared as if it were the coronet of the heavens', so vasf" was it — or like a glorious crown upon the brow of night. 5. I feel that I do not and can not... | |
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