Diary of an Idle Woman in ItalyB.Tauchnitz, 1872 |
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admirable Alban Hills Albano altar ancient ancient Rome appeared Appian arch Ariccia basilica Baths Baths of Titus bearing beautiful blue bright Cæsar Campagna carabinieri cardinal carriage centre chapel church Coliseum colonnades colour cortile crowd crowned dark deep descended Domenichino door dressed Egeria eyes face flowers Forum frescoes gallery garden Gasparone gold graceful grand green groves Guercino head heaven hill horses Idle Woman ilex Italian Italy ladies lake Lake of Albano light living look magnificent majestic Mamertine prisons marble Maria mass monk Monte mountains mounted never noble once painted palace passed Peter's Piazza picture pillars Pope portico priest purple rich rising road Roman Rome round ruins Santa scene shade shadows side Siena Sistine Chapel solemn spot stands statues stone stood streets temple Tiber Titian tomb trees valley villa walls wind Woman in Italy wonderful woods
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Seite 137 - And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Seite 41 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
Seite 140 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse : was this ambition?
Seite 165 - With her small tablets in her hand, and her satchel on her arm, Forth she went bounding to the school, nor dreamed of shame or harm.
Seite 64 - LARS PORSENA of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array.
Seite 210 - The palaces of these fortunate nephews are the most costly monuments of elegance and servitude: the perfect arts of architecture, painting, and sculpture have been prostituted in their service; and their galleries and gardens are decorated with the most precious works of antiquity which taste or vanity has prompted them to collect.
Seite 271 - Lucius bade her to go home ; and as she was going home, the body of her father was lying in the way. The driver of the chariot stopped short, and showed to Tullia where her father lay in his blood. But she bade him drive on, for the furies of her wickedness were upon her, and the chariot rolled over the body ; and she went to her home with her father's blood upon the wheels of her chariot.
Seite 126 - My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ?" After a brief pause, the long-drawn notes of the Miserere echoed through the gloom — soft, unearthly, spiritual — .sounds as of celestial souls suffering the torments of the damned, and calling on heaven and earth to listen while they breathed forth their agony in plaintive murmurs.
Seite 294 - Bonaparte must have felt rather proud when, on entering the grand central cor tile, with its open galleries and graceful colonnades, she was hailed as its mistress. The apartments devoted to the picture-gallery are on the ground-floor, and of almost interminable extent, ending in a corridor decorated with a sparkling fountain, and commanding a lovely view of St. Peter's, rising out of the green meadow encircling the Vatican on that side, and extending to the water-side. Close under the windows rolls...
Seite 19 - The city, from the earliest days, has been divided into contrade, or parishes. Each contrada has its special church, generally of great antiquity, and each contrada is named after some animal or natural object, these names being symbolical of certain trades or customs. There is the wolf, giraffe, owl, snail, tower, wave, goose, tortoise—in all seventeen. Each has its colours, heralds, pages, music, flags, all the mediaeval paraphernalia of republican subdivision.