Six Months in ItalyHoughton, Mifflin, 1881 - 563 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admirable animated antiquity Apennines arches architecture artist Baths of Caracalla beauty building called Campagna character charm church Civita Vecchia color Colosseum Correggio countenance crowned dark dome Domenichino earth English expression face feeling feet figure finest Florence flowers Frascati frescoes gallery garden genius glowing grace grandeur ground hand head heart hills hundred imagination impression interest Italian Italy landscape light living look marble ment merit Michael Angelo mind monument mountain Naples nature never noble objects occupied painted painter palace passed peculiar persons Perugia Peter's Piazza Piazza di Spagna Pincian Hill Pitti Palace Pompeii pope portrait Raphael remarkable rich Roman Rome ruins scene scenery sculpture seems seen shadows side soil spirit statue stream streets striking taste thing Tiber tion Titian traveller travertine Venice Villa walk walls whole young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 335 - Thou hast spread thy wing, and sheltered us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Seite 305 - I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts...
Seite 314 - This visible nature, and this common world, Is all too narrow: yea, a deeper import Lurks in the legend told my infant years Than lies upon that truth, we live to learn.
Seite 406 - Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto. And thus ten miles of fertile ground were inclosed with a wall.
Seite 509 - ... besides that, the roads are wide, wellkept, and full of passengers, a sight I have not beheld this long time. My wonder still increased upon entering the city, which I think, for number of people, outdoes both Paris and London. The streets are one continued market, and thronged with populace so much that a coach can hardly pass. The common sort are a jolly lively kind of animals, more industrious than Italians usually are; they work till evening; then take their lute or guitar (for they all play)...
Seite 536 - Of Boccaccio, the modern Petronius, we say nothing ; the abuse of genius is more odious and more contemptible than its absence ; and it imports little where the impure remains of a licentious author are consigned to their kindred dust For the same reason the traveller may pass unnoticed the tomb of the malignant Aretino.
Seite 106 - 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 192 - 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 509 - Dame Nature desired me to put in a list of her little goods and chattels, and, as they were small, to be very minute about them. She has built here three or four little mountains, and laid them out in an irregular semi-circle; from certain others behind, at a greater distance, she has drawn a canal, into which she has put a little river of hers...
Seite 114 - 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. A union so complete as theirs — in which the mind has nothing to crave, nor the heart to sigh for— is cordial to behold, and cheering to remember." pp....