A Hand-book for Travellers in Central Italy: Including the Papal States, Rome, and the Cities of Etruria

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J. Murray, 1850 - Broj stranica: 684
 

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Stranica 143 - sed ea ubi esset etiam ne audivi quidem.' ' for several virtues Have I liked several women ; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed And put it to the foil ; but you, О you, So perfect and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.'
Stranica 408 - of October, 1764, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers, that the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first started to his mind.
Stranica 277 - which flow gushingly, With many windings, through the vale: — Look back ! Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in its track, Charming the eye with dread,—a matchless cataract, Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge. From side to side, beneath the glittering
Stranica 143 - you, So perfect and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.'" In 1497, Guid' Ubaldo, commanding the papal forces, was defeated at Soriano by Vitellozzo Vitelli, lord of Citta di Castello, and made prisoner. Alexander VI. was not ashamed to make him pay
Stranica 463 - influence of his genius over this statue in one of his finest descriptions: — " Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, The God of life, and poesy, and light — The Sun in human limbs array'd,and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight ; The shaft
Stranica 102 - Of the pine-forest, and the silent shore Which bounds Ravenna's immemorial wood, Rooted where once the Adrian wave flow'd o'er, To where the last Ciesarean fortress stood, Evergreen forest ! which Boccaccio's lore And Dryden's lay made haunted ground to me. How have I loved the twilight hour and
Stranica 249 - nations meet ! Far other scene is Thrasimene now ; Her lake a sheet of silver, and her plain Rent by no ravage save the gentle plough ; Her aged trees rise thick as once the slain Lay where their roots are ; but a brook hath ta'en — A little rill of scanty stream and
Stranica 592 - Tie I that made thy widows; many an heir Of these fair edifices 'fore my wars Have I heard groan and drop : .then know me not. Lest that thy wives with spits, and boys with stones In puny battle slay me." The piratical expeditions of the inhabitants led to frequent contests with Rome ; the city was captured by
Stranica 352 - thrown ; — What was this tower of strength ? within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so hid ? — A woman's grave. But who was she, the lady of the dead, Tomb'd in a palace ? Was she chaste and fair? Worthy a king's—or more — a Roman's bed ? What race of chiefs and heroes did she
Stranica 277 - To the broad column which rolls on, and shows More like the fountain of an Infant sea Torn from the womb of mountains by the throes Of a new world, than only thus to be Parent of river», which flow gushingly, With many windings, through the vale: — Look back ! Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As

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