A Classical Tour Through Italy, An. MDCCCII.J. Mawman, 1815 - Church architecture |
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... should claim the atten tion of the traveller în the neighborhood of this city is Vallombrosa , because its elevated situation renders it difficult of access at an early period of autumn . The first 2 PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE . 39.
... should claim the atten tion of the traveller în the neighborhood of this city is Vallombrosa , because its elevated situation renders it difficult of access at an early period of autumn . The first 2 PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE . 39.
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... situation of this city is , however , its principal beauty and advantage ; in a valley watered by the Salza , open only to the north , and enclosed on the other sides by hills and mountains of various forms and magnitude . Upon one of ...
... situation of this city is , however , its principal beauty and advantage ; in a valley watered by the Salza , open only to the north , and enclosed on the other sides by hills and mountains of various forms and magnitude . Upon one of ...
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... situation ap- peared such as might have discouraged even ex- perienced travellers . After some hours ' exertion , and very little progress , our drivers were seriously alarmed , and entreated us to allow them to re- turn with their ...
... situation ap- peared such as might have discouraged even ex- perienced travellers . After some hours ' exertion , and very little progress , our drivers were seriously alarmed , and entreated us to allow them to re- turn with their ...
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... situations the traveller reflects upon his security , and recollects that these mountains , so savage , and so well adapted to the purposes of murderers and of banditti , have not in the memory of man , been stained by human blood , he ...
... situations the traveller reflects upon his security , and recollects that these mountains , so savage , and so well adapted to the purposes of murderers and of banditti , have not in the memory of man , been stained by human blood , he ...
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... situation ; as the plain , in which it stands , is terminated by a tremendous defile , whose rocky sides jut out so far and rise so high , as almost to hide the face of heaven : while the river , contracted into a torrent , or rather a ...
... situation ; as the plain , in which it stands , is terminated by a tremendous defile , whose rocky sides jut out so far and rise so high , as almost to hide the face of heaven : while the river , contracted into a torrent , or rather a ...
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Page 309 - 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 12 - 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.
Page 23 - 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 141 - The portico is a noble gallery leading from the town to the church, and intended to shade and shelter the persons who visit the sanctuary in which it terminates ; and as its length is more than a mile, its materials stone, and its form not inelegant, it strikes the spectator as a very magnificent instance of public taste. The church is seen to most advantage at a distance ; as, on a nearer approach, it appears overloaded with ornaments. It is of fine stone, of the Corinthian order, in the form of...
Page 386 - ... basin for swimming. Round this edifice were walks shaded by rows of trees, particularly the plane ; and in its front extended a gymnasium for running, wrestling, &c. in fine weather. The whole was bounded by a vast portico opening into exedrae or spacious halls, where poets declaimed, and philosophers gave lectures.
Page 108 - The descent becomes more rapid between Roveredo and Ala ; the river, which glided gently through the valley of Trent, assumes the roughness of a torrent ; the defiles become narrower ; and the mountains break into rocks and precipices, which occasionally approach the road, sometimes rise perpendicular from it, and now and then hang over it in terrible majesty.
Page 376 - The Coliseum, owing to the solidity of its materials, survived the era of barbarism, and was so perfect in the thirteenth century, that games were exhibited in it, not for the amusement of the Romans only, but of all the nobility of Italy. The destruction of this wonderful fabric is to be ascribed to causes more active in general in the erectiou than in the demolition of magnificent buildings — to Taste and Vanity.
Page 173 - Hoc enim vinculum est huius dignitatis, qua fruimur in re publica, hoc fundamentum libertatis, hie fons aequitatis : mens et animus et consilium et sententia civitatis posita est in legibus. Ut corpora nostra sine mente, sic civitas sine lege suis partibus, ut nervis et sanguine et membris, uti non potest. Legum ministri magistratus, legum interpretes iudices, legum denique idcirco omnes servi sumus, ut liberi esse possimus.
Page 394 - ... it retains its length, its pillars, its cross-ribbed vault, and much of its original grandeur. It was paved and incrusted with the finest marble by Benedict XIV., who carried into execution the plan drawn up originally by Michael Angelo, when it was first changed into a church. It is supported by eight pillars, forty feet in height and five in diameter, each of one vast piece of granite. The raising of the pavement, by taking six feet from the height of these pillars, has destroyed their proportion,...
Page 403 - Some felt the silent stroke of mouldering age, Some hostile fury, some religious rage : Barbarian blindness, Christian zeal conspire, And Papal piety, and Gothic fire.