Sketches of short tours at home and abroad, Volume 2 |
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Page 175 - There is a glorious city in the sea; The sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing; and the salt sea-weed Clings to the marble of her palaces. No track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates! The path lies o'er the sea, Invisible: and from the land we went, As to a floating city — steering in, And gliding up her streets, as in a dream...
Page 142 - Enter: its grandeur overwhelms thee not; And why ? It is not lessened ; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal, and can only find A fit abode wherein appear enshrined Thy hopes of immortality; and thou Shalt one day, if found worthy, so defined, See thy God face to face, as thou dost now His holy of holies, nor be blasted by his brow.
Page 140 - A school-boy on his bench, at early dawn Glowing with Roman story, I should live To tread the Appian, once an avenue Of monuments most glorious, palaces, — Their doors sealed up and silent as the night, The dwellings of the illustrious dead : to turn Toward Tiber, and, beyond the city gate, Pour out my unpremeditated verse, Where on his mule I might have met so oft Horace himself : or climb the Palatine...
Page 144 - Laocoon is an example, which stands in the palace of the emperor Titus, a work which may be considered superior to all others both in painting and statuary. The whole group, the father, the boys, and the awful folds of the serpents, were formed out of a single block, in accordance with a vote of the senate, by Agesander, Polydorus, and Athenodorus, Rhodian sculptors of the highest class.
Page 113 - I went over to that poor skeleton of ancient Winchelsea. It is beautifully situated on the top of a steep hill, and was regularly built in broad streets, crossing each other, and encompassing a very large Square ; in the midst of which was a large church, now in ruins. I stood under a large tree, on the side of it, and called to most of the inhabitants of the town, " The kingdom of heaven is at hand ; repent, and believe the Gospel.
Page 172 - OF all the fairest Cities of the Earth None is so fair as FLORENCE. 'Tis a gem Of purest ray ; and what a light broke forth, When it emerged from darkness ! Search within, Without ; all is enchantment ! 'Tis the Past Contending with the Present ; and in turn Each has the mastery.
Page 167 - THIS region, surely, is not of the earth.* Was it not dropt from heaven ? Not a grove, Citron or pine or cedar, not a grot . Sea-worn and mantled with the gadding vine, But breathes enchantment.
Page 94 - Hasli, lies on the rt. bank of the Aar, and contains about 700 inhabitants. The picturesqueness of its- situation is much praised. Brockedon says, " The vale of Meyringen concentrates as much of what is Alpine in its beauties as any valley in Switzerland.
Page 6 - Rambles beyond Railways." He says : — "The nuns never leave the convent, and no one ever sees them in it. Women even are not admitted to visit them ; the domestic servants who have been employed in the house for years have never seen their faces — have never heard them speak. It is only in cases of severe and dangerous illness, when their own skill and their own medicines do not avail them, that they...
Page 139 - This is the principal church of the Jesuits, and one of the most richly decorated in Rome.