By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern ItalyChapman and Hall, 1921 - Broj stranica: 203 |
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Alaric albergo ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE amid ancient asked beauty began Bruttii Busento Calabria called carriage Cassiodorus Catanzaro coloured Concordia Cosenza Cotrone course Crati Croton dark dazio delightful Don Pasquale Esaro eyes face fellow felt flowing François Lenormant Galæsus garden GEORGE GISSING Greek harbour heard heights hills hostess hour houses interest Ionian Sea Italian Italy journey knew labour landscape Lenormant looked Magna Græcia meal Metaponto minutes Mons Moscius morning mountain museum Naples never night once Paola passed picture picturesque pleasant promontory railway station rain Reggio river road Roman Rome ruins San Sostene scene Sculco seemed shore Signor smile soil soon sound southern Squillace stone stood street sunshine Sybaris tain talk Taranto Tarentum temple things thought to-day took town train traveller trees turned valley voices walk wall weather Whilst wind wine wonder
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Stranica 173 - Thou shalt eat the labour of thy hands; happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
Stranica 13 - water-splash into a lulling murmur. The stillness of a dead world laid its spell on all that lived. To-day seemed an unreality, an idle impertinence; the real was that long-buried past which gave its meaning to all about me, touching the night with infinite pathos.
Stranica 13 - long-buried past which gave its meaning to all about me, touching the night with infinite pathos. Best of all, one's own being became lost to consciousness; the mind knew only the phantasmal forms it shaped, and was at peace in vision.
Stranica 147 - with exclamations of approval from those who listened. No, it is not merely the difference between homely Anglo-Saxon and a language of classic origin; there is a radical distinction of thought. These people have an innate respect for things of the mind, which is wholly lacking to a typical Englishman. One need not
Stranica 191 - In the days to come, as through all time that is past, man will lord it over his fellow, and earth will be stained red from veins of young and old. That sweet and sounding name of patria becomes an illusion and a curse; linked with the pretentious
Stranica 32 - to Cosenza, and wondering at all they saw. The women wore a very striking costume : a short petticoat of scarlet, much embroidered, and over it a blue skirt, rolled up in front and gathered in a sort of knot behind the waist; a bodice adorned with needlework and metal; elaborate glistening head-gear, and bare feet.
Stranica 34 - This political date marks the end of theocracy in civil life. The day which ends its moral rule will begin the epoch of humanity." A remarkable utterance anywhere; not least so within hearing of the stream which flows over the grave of Alaric.
Stranica 87 - The common type of face at Cotrone is coarse and bumpkinish; ruder, it seemed to me, than faces seen at any point of my journey hitherto. A photographer had hung out a lot of portraits, and it was a hideous exhibition; some of the visages attained an incredible degree of vulgar ugliness. This in the town which still bears the name of
Stranica 197 - the Ionian Sea, I wished it were mine to wander endlessly amid the silence of the ancient world, to-day and all its sounds forgotten.
Stranica 86 - and intelligence greatly won upon me. I like to think of him as still quietly happy amid his garden walls, tending flowers that grow over the dead at Cotrone.