Only GlimpsesAdvocate Steam Print, 1887 - 148 pagina's |
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American appearance architecture arrival artist beautiful beneath blue brilliant building Cathedral chapel CHAPTER charming church clear color comes covered cross crowd deck delightful desired drive early enjoy entered exquisite eyes face feet figure fine Florence give graceful happy historic interest Italian Italy ladies land light living looked magnificent marble mind morning mountains narrow Nature once ourselves palace Paris party passed past perfect piazza pleasure possessed present quiet rare ready remain rest rich Roman Rome ruins Santa scene seemed seen short shows side sight slowly sounds spirit stands statue stay steps stood streets strong structure suggests thought tomb town traveller turn valley voice waiting wall wish women wonderful young
Populaire passages
Pagina 1 - Not to a rage : patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once...
Pagina 71 - Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Pagina 135 - It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
Pagina 89 - For thou writest bitter things against me, And makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
Pagina 93 - In the prison called the Tullian," he says, "there is a place about ten feet deep : it is surrounded on the sides by walls, and is closed above by a vaulted roof of stone. The appearance of it, from the filth, the darkness, and the stench, is terrific.
Pagina 101 - These sayings are true at all times, and equally true that " a little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Pagina 33 - And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Pagina 46 - And though many thousand people were thus collected together, no sound was to be heard, not even a " hush," until the arrival of the children, who sang hymns with so much sweetness that heaven seemed to have opened. Thus they waited three or four hours till the Padre entered the pulpit. And the attention of so great a mass of people, all with eyes and ears intent upon the preacher, was wonderful ; they listened so, that when the sermon reached its end it seemed to them that it had scarcely begun.
Pagina 70 - Corsini, from the designs of Alessandro Galilei (1729). Nothing can surpass the magnificence of this very beautiful structure: the richest marbles, the most elaborate ornaments and gilding, columns of precious marbles, bas-reliefs, and even gems, have been lavished on its decorations with a profusion quite without a parallel in any other private chapel in Rome, except the Borghese in Sta. Maria Maggiore. Notwithstanding this excess of ornament the whole has been controlled and subdued by a correct...
Pagina 21 - It is believed to have been built by the Roman consul, C. Sextius (120 BC), on account of the mineral springs in the neighbourhood, and thence called AquiB Sextiaj.