 | 1836 - 676 pages
...passages, or cautiously ascended some mouldering flight of steps, or stood by the lonely wails — ourselves silent, and, for a wonder, the guide silent...convent bell, from the summit of the neighbouring Esquilme. It is scarcely possible to describe the effect of moonlight upon ihis ruin. Through a hundred... | |
 | 1836 - 706 pages
...mouldering flight of steps, or stood by the lonely walls — ourselves silent, and, for a wonder, the gu-Ae silent too — there was no sound here but of the...convent bell, from the summit of the neighbouring Esquilme. It is scarcely possible to describe the effect of moonlight upon this ruin. Through a hundred... | |
 | Orville Dewey - 1844 - 904 pages
...overgrows the spots where the pride, and power, and wealth, and beauty • fly the Frangipnni family. of Rome sat down to its barbarous entertainments....the convent bell from the summit of the neighbouring Esquiliue. It is scarcely possible to describe the effect of moonlight upon this ruin. Through a hundred... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pages
...as we picked our way carefully through the decayed passages, or cautiously ascended some moldering flight of steps, or stood by the lonely walls —...carriage or the convent bell from the summit of the neighboring Esquiline. 4. It is scarcely possible to describe the effect of moonlight upon this 'ruin.... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pages
...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...carriage or the convent bell from the summit of the neighboring Esquiline. 4. It is scarcely possible to describe the effect of moonlight upon this ruin.... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 pages
...as we picked our way carefully through the decayed passages, or cautiously ascended some moldering flight of steps, or stood by the lonely walls —...carriage or the convent bell from the summit of the neighboring Esquiline. 3. It is scarcely possible to describe the effect of moonlight upon this ruin.... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 pages
...as we picked our way carefully through the decayed passages, or cautiously ascended some moldering flight of steps, or stood by the lonely walls —...carriage or the convent bell from the summit of the neighboring Esquiline. ' Constantine I., called the Great, was born AD 274, proclaimed cinperor of... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 758 pages
...as we picked our way carefully through the decayed passages, or cautiously ascended some moldering flight of steps, or stood by the lonely walls —...carriage, or the convent bell from the summit of the neighboring Esquiline. 4. It is scarcely possible to describe the effect of moonlight upon this ruin.... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 pages
...as we picked our way carefully through the decayed passages, or cautiously ascended some moldering flight of steps, or stood by the lonely walls —...carriage or the convent bell from the summit of the neighboring Esquiline. 3. It is scarcely possible to describe the effect of moonlight upon this ruin.... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1921 - 506 pages
...as we picked our way carefully through the decayed passages, or cautiously ascended some moldering flight of steps, or stood by the lonely walls —...carriage, or the convent bell from the summit of the neighboring Esquiline. It is scarcely possible to describe the effect of moonlight upon this ruin.... | |
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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... 
