A tour through Italy, Volume 1[J.] Mawman, 1813 - Italy |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 66
Page lviii
... apartments , oftentimes compensate the caprice that deforms the exterior of these edifices . In fine , with regard to buildings , we may generalize and apply to Italy the observa- tion which was originally made on Rome , that no country ...
... apartments , oftentimes compensate the caprice that deforms the exterior of these edifices . In fine , with regard to buildings , we may generalize and apply to Italy the observa- tion which was originally made on Rome , that no country ...
Page lxxiii
... the middle of each room by the soldiers of Charles V ...... The paintings in the different halls ... These apartments the school of painters k 291 ib . 292 PAGE . To which of the performances of Raffaello in CONTENTS . lxxiii.
... the middle of each room by the soldiers of Charles V ...... The paintings in the different halls ... These apartments the school of painters k 291 ib . 292 PAGE . To which of the performances of Raffaello in CONTENTS . lxxiii.
Page lxxiv
... apartments ; the masterpieces removed by the sacrilegious ravage of the French .. The apartment called Il Gabinetto The hall or temple of the Muses .... The Sala Rotonda ; mosaic pavement ; a vast vase of porphyry . The Sala a Croce ...
... apartments ; the masterpieces removed by the sacrilegious ravage of the French .. The apartment called Il Gabinetto The hall or temple of the Muses .... The Sala Rotonda ; mosaic pavement ; a vast vase of porphyry . The Sala a Croce ...
Page 15
... the forms of hostile knights , mounted upon their palfreys , with visors down and spears couched , as if ready to rush forward in battle . The smaller apartments are fitted up with less THROUGH ITALY . 15 The vale of Inspruck described.
... the forms of hostile knights , mounted upon their palfreys , with visors down and spears couched , as if ready to rush forward in battle . The smaller apartments are fitted up with less THROUGH ITALY . 15 The vale of Inspruck described.
Page 16
John Chetwode Eustace. battle . The smaller apartments are fitted up with less attention to Gothic propriety than to utility , and contain various natural curiosities , intermingled with gems , medals , and pictures . Though at Inspruck ...
John Chetwode Eustace. battle . The smaller apartments are fitted up with less attention to Gothic propriety than to utility , and contain various natural curiosities , intermingled with gems , medals , and pictures . Though at Inspruck ...
Contents
320 | |
329 | |
336 | |
342 | |
391 | |
411 | |
417 | |
423 | |
91 | |
115 | |
152 | |
171 | |
177 | |
181 | |
188 | |
194 | |
201 | |
207 | |
217 | |
223 | |
230 | |
241 | |
255 | |
280 | |
316 | |
429 | |
435 | |
458 | |
466 | |
472 | |
478 | |
485 | |
534 | |
542 | |
548 | |
554 | |
559 | |
569 | |
582 | |
590 | |
599 | |
Other editions - View all
A Tour Through Italy: Exhibiting a View of Its Scenery, Antiquities, and ... John Chetwode Eustace No preview available - 2013 |
Common terms and phrases
adorned alluded altar ancient Ancona antiquity Apennines appearance appellation arches architecture banks Basilica beautiful Bologna borders called Campus Martius cathedral Catullus celebrated Cesena chapel Christian church Cicero classical Cluverius coast Corinthian covered Cremona decorations delightful distance dome edifice elevation Emperor erected feet fertile French gallery gardens glory grand grandeur groves halls hill honor inhabitants Italian Italy lake latter Livy lofty magnificence Mantua marble ments miles Mincius Misenus modern Monte monuments mountains Naples noble observed ornaments Padua paintings palace passed perhaps Peter's pillars plain poet Pompeii pontiff Pope portico present principal promontory Puteoli quæ reader remains Rimini rises river road rock Roman Roman architecture Rome ruins scene scenery seat seems shaded side Silius Italicus splendor stands statues summit supposed taste temple theatre thermæ Tiber Tibur tion tomb towers town traveller vast vault Verona villa Virgil walls whole
Popular passages
Page 514 - Mantua me genuit : Calabri rapuere : tenet nunc Parthenope : cecini pascua, rura, duces.
Page 538 - Spelunca alta fuit vastoque immanis hiatu, Scrupea, tuta lacu nigro nemorumque tenebris, Quam super haud ullae poterant impune volantes Tendere iter pennis : talis sese halitus atris 240 Faucibus effundens supera ad convexa ferebat ; [Unde locum Graii dixerunt nomine Aornon...
Page 222 - I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls; and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina; silence is in the house of her fathers.
Page 415 - At rex sollicitus monstris oracula Fauni, Fatidici genitoris, adit, lucosque sub alta Consulit Albunea, nemorum quae maxima sacro Fonte sonat saevamque exhalat opaca mephitim.
Page 170 - Ev'n the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, And trodden weeds send out a rich perfume. Bear me, some god, to Baia's gentle seats, Or cover me in Umbria's green retreats ; Where western gales eternally reside, And all the seasons lavish all their pride : Blossoms, and fruits, and flowers together rise, And the whole year in gay confusion lies.
Page xxiii - I allow well ; so that he be such a one that hath the language, and hath been in the country before ; whereby he may be able to tell them what things are worthy to be seen in the country where they...
Page 283 - Classic dress, and the work is rather to be attributed to the end of the fifth, or the beginning of the sixth, century.
Page xxxii - Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates! (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates!) The day when thou, imperial Troy! must bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end.
Page 226 - Genii tutelares" of a place sacred to the improvement of the mind, and to the care of the body. The two other temples were dedicated to the two protecting divinities of the Antonine family, Hercules and Bacchus. In the principal building were, in the first place, a grand circular vestibule...
Page xxiv - The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through climes and ages bears each form and name: In one short view subjected to our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie. With sharpen'd sight pale antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore.