The Quarterly Review, Volumen118William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1865 |
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... Roman greatness , and find the surrounding scenery perfectly in unison . From this road , too , the whole city is actually surveyed . The domes and cupolas are more numerous than from any other quarter ; beside which , some of the ...
... Roman greatness , and find the surrounding scenery perfectly in unison . From this road , too , the whole city is actually surveyed . The domes and cupolas are more numerous than from any other quarter ; beside which , some of the ...
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... Roman roads ; and this Appian Way , mile after mile , thronged with the sepulchres and the monuments of the illustrious dead . Conceive a Westminster Abbey of twelve or sixteen miles ! on either side crowded with lofty tombs or votive ...
... Roman roads ; and this Appian Way , mile after mile , thronged with the sepulchres and the monuments of the illustrious dead . Conceive a Westminster Abbey of twelve or sixteen miles ! on either side crowded with lofty tombs or votive ...
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... Romans , travelling in their state from their luxurious Campanian villas , and , with those who landed at Naples or ... Roman antiquities , of all who visit Rome with the feelings of solemn veneration which her ancient glory ought to ...
... Romans , travelling in their state from their luxurious Campanian villas , and , with those who landed at Naples or ... Roman antiquities , of all who visit Rome with the feelings of solemn veneration which her ancient glory ought to ...
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... Roman highways , and though many chose more quiet resting - places , like Propertius , ' Dî faciant , mea ne terrâ locet ossa frequenti Qua facit assiduo tramite vulgus iter : ' the poet would repose under the shade of some beautiful ...
... Roman highways , and though many chose more quiet resting - places , like Propertius , ' Dî faciant , mea ne terrâ locet ossa frequenti Qua facit assiduo tramite vulgus iter : ' the poet would repose under the shade of some beautiful ...
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... ( Roman ) mile ; or that of still more imposing dimensions , between the tenth and ninth . If indeed the monuments on the whole did read , and were intended to read , a solemn lesson on our common mortality , these two huge mounds are not ...
... ( Roman ) mile ; or that of still more imposing dimensions , between the tenth and ninth . If indeed the monuments on the whole did read , and were intended to read , a solemn lesson on our common mortality , these two huge mounds are not ...
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Página 96 - OH, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now...
Página 315 - To thee, all Angels cry aloud; the Heavens, and all the Powers therein. To thee, Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth; Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory.
Página 104 - It's dull in our town since my playmates left! I can't forget that I'm bereft Of all the pleasant sights they see, Which the Piper also promised me. For he led us, he said, to a joyous land, Joining the town and just at hand, Where waters gushed and fruit-trees grew And flowers put forth a fairer hue, And everything was strange and new...
Página 84 - Self-gathered for an outbreak, as it ought, Chafes in the censer. Leave we the unlettered plain its herd and crop ; Seek we sepulture On a tall mountain, citied to the top, Crowded with culture...
Página 85 - Here - here's his place, where meteors shoot, clouds form, Lightnings are loosened, Stars come and go! Let joy break with the storm, Peace let the dew send! Lofty designs must close in like effects: Loftily lying, Leave him — still loftier than the world suspects, Living and dying.
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Página 98 - Pulcinello-trumpet breaks up the market beneath. At the post-office such a scene-picture — the new play, piping hot ! And a notice how, only this morning, three liberal thieves were shot. Above it, behold the Archbishop's most fatherly of rebukes, And beneath, with his crown and his lion, some little new law of the Duke's ! Or a sonnet with flowery marge, to the reverend Don So-and-so Who is Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca, Saint Jerome and Cicero, 'And moreover...
Página 97 - HAD I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, The house for me, no doubt, were a house in the city-square ; Ah, such a life, such a life, as one leads at the window there ! II. Something to see, by Bacchus, something to hear, at least ! There, the whole day long, one's life is a perfect feast ; While up at a villa one lives, I maintain it, no more than a beast.
Página 315 - The glorious company of the Apostles, The goodly fellowship of the Prophets, The noble army of Martyrs praise thee.