Six Months in Italy, Band 1Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1854 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admirable antiquity arches architecture artist awakened bas-reliefs basilica Baths of Caracalla beauty Bologna bronze Bucentaur building busts cathedral century chapel character church Civita Vecchia color colossal Colosseum columns Correggio countenance crowned dome Domenichino drapery earth expression façade face feeling feet figure finest Florence flowers fountain fresco gallery garden genius grace grandeur Greek hand head heart honor impression interest Italian Italy landscape light look marble Maria Mark's Mark's Place ment merit Michael Angelo mind monument mosaic natural never noble obelisk objects occupied painted painter palace Palazzo peculiar Peter's Piazza Piazza di Spagna Pitti Palace poetry pope portico portrait Raphael repose representing rich Roman Rome roof ruins sarcophagus scene sculpture seems seen shadows Sistine Chapel spirit statue structure sublime taste temple thermæ thing tion Titian traveller Trieste Vatican Venetian Venice villa walk walls whole
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 166 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Seite 303 - Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle that showeth best in varied lights.
Seite 63 - Inferno, the great poet drew one of these striking and picturesque images, characteristic alike of the boldness and the power of his genius, which never hesitated to look for its materials among the homely details and familiar incidents of life. In his hands, the boiling of pitch and the calking of seams ascend to the dignity of poetry.
Seite 178 - Nor is she more remarkable for genius and learning than for sweetness of temper, tenderness of heart, depth of feeling, and purity of spirit. It is a privilege to know such beings singly and separately ; but to see their powers quickened, and their happiness rounded, by the sacred tie of marriage, is a cause for peculiar and lusting gratitude.
Seite 177 - A happier home and a more perfect " union than theirs it is not easy to imagine ; " and this completeness arises not only from the " rare qualities which each possesses, but from " their perfect adaptation to each other.
Seite 167 - Clothing the palpable and the familiar With golden exhalations of the dawn. Whatever fortunes wait my future toils, The beautiful is vanished — and returns not.
Seite 38 - Everything is dreamlike and unsubstantial—a fairy pageant floating upon the waters; a city of cloudland rather than of the earth. The gondola itself, in which the traveller reclines, contributes to weave the spell in which his thoughts and senses are involved. No form of locomotion ever gratified so well the two warring tendencies of the human soul, the love of movement and the love of repose. There is no noise, no fatigue, no danger, no dust It is managed with such skill and so little apparent...
Seite 178 - She has been a great sufferer from ill-health, and the marks of pain are stamped upon her person and manner. Her figure is slight, her countenance expressive of genius and sensibility, shaded by a veil of long brown locks ; and her tremulous voice often flutters over her words, like the flame of a dying candle over the wick. I have never seen a human frame which seemed so nearly a transparent veil for a celestial and immortal spirit. She is a soul of fire enclosed in a shell of pearl.
Seite 289 - neath yon crimson tree, Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.
Seite 306 - It is a wilderness of ruin in which no two fragments are exactly alike. The material of which the Colosseum was built is exactly fitted to the purposes of a great ruin. It is travertine, of a rich, dark, warm color, deepened and mellowed by time. There is nothing glaring, harsh, or abrupt in the harmony of tints. The blue sky above and the green earth beneath are in unison with a tone of coloring not unlike the brown of one of our own early winter landscapes. The travertine is also of a coarse grain...