Days Near Rome, Opseg 2Dalby, Isbister & Company, 1875 |
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abbey Abbot Æneas altar ancient angels Antium Aquila Aquino arch Ardea ascend Astura beautiful beneath Benedict Bishop Bolsena bridge built called Caprarola Cardinal carriage Castel d'Asso castle cathedral century Cervetri chapel church Cicero Civita Castellana Civita Vecchia cliffs colour convent Corneto curious distance Emperor Etruria Etruscan excursion famous Farfa Farnese feet figures frescoes gate Germano Gothic grand Grotta height hill inhabitants Italy lake Lavinium Liris Lo Spagna Madonna Maria masonry medieval miles monastery monks Monte Cassino mosaic mountain Naples occupied Orvieto painted palace pass picture picturesque Pietro pillars plain Pliny Pope Porto d'Anzio Prince ravine remains rises river road rock Roman Rome Ronciglione ruined saint sculptured sepulchres side Signorelli Silius Silius Italicus Solmona Sora Soracte Spoleto stands stone surrounded Sutri Tarquinii temple Terracina Tiber tomb Toscanella tower town tufa valley Vetralla villa Virgin Viterbo Volci walls
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Stranica 225 - Ma per salirla mo nessun diparte Da terra i piedi : e la regola mia Rimasa è giù per danno delle carte.
Stranica 155 - ... shore a temple still, Of small and delicate proportion, keeps, Upon a mild declivity of hill, Its memory of thee ; beneath it sweeps Thy current's calmness ; oft from out it leaps The finny darter with the glittering scales, Who dwells and revels in thy glassy deeps ; While, chance, some scatter'd water-lily sails Down where the shallower wave still tells its bubbling tales.
Stranica 155 - But thou, Clitumnus ! in thy sweetest wave Of the most living crystal that was e'er The haunt of river nymph, to gaze and lave Her limbs where nothing hid them...
Stranica 47 - Summe deum, sancti custos Soractis Apollo, 785 quem primi colimus, cui pineus ardor acervo pascitur et medium freti pietate per ignem cultores multa premimus vestigia pruna, da, pater, hoc nostris aboleri dedecus armis, omnipotens. Non exuvias pulsaeve tropaeum 790 virginis aut spolia ulla peto (mihi cetera laudem facta ferent) : haec dira meo dum vulnere pestis pulsa cadat, patrias remeabo inglorius urbes.
Stranica 244 - Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days : and so we went toward Rome. 15 And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appiiforum, and The Three Taverns; whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.
Stranica 352 - Queen of the western waves, Where ride Massilia's triremes Heavy with fair-haired slaves; From where sweet Clanis wanders Through corn and vines and flowers, From where Cortona lifts to heaven Her diadem of towers.
Stranica 142 - The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, LXX.
Stranica 152 - ... but he, being virtuous, and, moreover, on his way to a holy shrine, refused to listen to her allurements. " Then she thought how she might be avenged for this slight put upon her charms, and hid in his wallet her father's silver drinking-cup. The next morning, no sooner were they departed, than the host, discovering his loss, pursued them, accused them before the judge, and the cup being found in the young man's wallet, he was condemned to be hung, and all they possessed was confiscated to the...
Stranica 54 - Hi Soractis habent arces Flaviniaque arva, Et Cimini cum monte lacum lucosque Capenos.
Stranica 125 - The Annunciation is represented in front of the choir by two colossal statues by Francesco Mochi : to the right is the Angel Gabriel, poised on a marble cloud, in an attitude so fantastic that he looks as if he were going to dance ; on the other side stands the Virgin, conceived in a spirit how...