ARGUMENT. Morning. Ancient olive grove. Cascatelle. Ruined Villa. Its objects of Art, and Library. Musings therefrom. Lizards. Italian climate, and landscape, and peasants, male and female. How modified by social position. Address to Italy. Great cascade at mid-day. Italian and Swiss scenery, how differing. River Anio. Antiquarian estimate of time. Route to Italy. Ruins of Rome, and thoughts and feelings thence arising. Tivoli resumed. Italy everywhere abounding in picture, modern or ancient, or combined. Illustrated by farm house. Fountains-Vintage scene Street Music. Reflections. A modern Roman Catholic church. Foreign travel and its proper result. Afternoon-refreshment at hostel. Horace and Virgil. Mecenas and Augustus. Ruined palace of the Cæsars. Horace and Virgil resumed. Temple of Tivoli at evening. Critics. Coming on of night over Campagna. A DAY AT TIVOLI. PROLOGUE. FAIR blows the breeze- depart-depart- And feed thy soul with glorious art; Nor sometime shalt thou deem it wrong, At idle length to lie along, And quaff a bliss from bluest skies. B |