Six Months in Italy, المجلد 1Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1854 |
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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. 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....
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 307 - As a matter of course, every body goes to see the Colosseum by moonlight. The great charm of the ruin under this condition is, that the imagination is substituted for sight ; and the mind, for the eye. The essential character of moonlight is hard rather than soft. The line between light and shadow is sharply defined, and there is no gradation of color. Blocks and walls of silver are bordered by, and spring out of chasms of blackness. But moonlight shrouds the Colosseum in mystery. ,It opens deep...
الصفحة 178 - VOL. i. 12 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 289 - neath yon crimson tree, Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.
الصفحة 243 - Bclvidcre ... it comprises the Hall of Animals, the Gallery of the Muses, the Circular Hall, the Hall of the Greek Cross, the Hall of the Biga, and the Grand Staircase. In point of architecture, these are the most splendid portions of the whole Vatican, and the visitor knows not which most to admire, the innumerable works of art which solicit hi* attention, or the spacious courts, and the noble apartments around and in which they are distributed.
الصفحة 177 - ... his furniture, or proclaim how his wife and daughters were dressed. But I trust I may be pardoned if I state, that one of my most delightful associations with Florence arises from the fact, that here I made the acquaintance of Robert and Elizabeth Browning. These are even more familiar names in America than in England, and their poetry is probably more read and 1853.] Robert and Elizabeth Browning.