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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... hands , I determined to be my own guide in a stroll through the city . So providing myself with the few Ital- ian phrases necessary to inquire out the places I wished to see , though many of the people under- stand a question in French ...
... hands , I determined to be my own guide in a stroll through the city . So providing myself with the few Ital- ian phrases necessary to inquire out the places I wished to see , though many of the people under- stand a question in French ...
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... hand . And , indeed , as to the morality of the matter , I think it is not for the spectator to plead conscience in refusal of pay- ment for that which he pleases to stand and see . One capital peculiarity in the streets here , I must ...
... hand . And , indeed , as to the morality of the matter , I think it is not for the spectator to plead conscience in refusal of pay- ment for that which he pleases to stand and see . One capital peculiarity in the streets here , I must ...
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... hand of old Rome upon either , but the mound on which the road runs , which is raised several feet above the surrounding country . Streams of water , arti- ficially introduced doubtless , commonly run in the deep ditches or canals by ...
... hand of old Rome upon either , but the mound on which the road runs , which is raised several feet above the surrounding country . Streams of water , arti- ficially introduced doubtless , commonly run in the deep ditches or canals by ...
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... hand clutches by the hair a bleeding head , which she has just cut off ! Raphael : La Madonna della Seggiola * —surely very beautiful - but I have something more to say about that . * So called because the Madonna is represented sitting ...
... hand clutches by the hair a bleeding head , which she has just cut off ! Raphael : La Madonna della Seggiola * —surely very beautiful - but I have something more to say about that . * So called because the Madonna is represented sitting ...
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... hand , fine in his way . Ligozzi : Virgin and St. Francis - very touching expression of sadness . I should suppose ... hands to the infant Saviour . VOL . II . - D * From the paper window . Mazzolino : La Femme Adultére - small , but ...
... hand , fine in his way . Ligozzi : Virgin and St. Francis - very touching expression of sadness . I should suppose ... hands to the infant Saviour . VOL . II . - D * From the paper window . Mazzolino : La Femme Adultére - small , but ...
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Page 132 - Rameses, between three and four thousand years ago.' They saw ages of empire and glory before Rome had a being. They are also in the most perfect preservation. So beautifully polished, and entirely free from stain, untouched by the storms of thirty-five centuries, it seems as if they had not lost one of their particles, since they came from the quarries of Egypt. That very surface, we know, has been gazed upon by the eyes of -a hundred successive generations. Speak, dread monitors! as ye point upward...
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Page 133 - Methinks it were enough to penetrate the bosom of granite with emotion, to have witnessed what ye have witnessed. Methinks that the stern and inexorable mystery, graven upon your mighty shafts, must break silence, to tell that which it hath known of weal and wo, of change, disaster, blood, and crime ! LESSON XXI.
Page 229 - 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 poison•ed fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains.
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 - What voices', what greetings', what hurrying footsteps up the staircases of the eighty arches of entrance'! and now, as we picked our way carefully through the decayed passages, or cautiously ascended some moldering 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.
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Page 193 - ... flourish in a republic. For it is precisely in a republic that they are wanted to complete the system of social influences. "It is a mistake into which novices fall, to suppose that the arts are unfavorable to -.norality.