Suburbs, advantageous Effect of their total Absence at Turin, 157.
Suddenness of a Catastrophe admirably impictured in the Samson of Ludovico Caracci, 60.
SULLY, HOTEL DE, its luxuriant Decorations, and the Ro-. mance of its Historical Reminiscences, 4.
SUPERGA, the, at Turin, superseded, as the Mausoleum of the Sardinian Royal Family, by the Sacra San Michele, 157. Superstitions, rural, their Relics, 311.
SUSA. The Monuments of Classic and Barbaric Antiquity there; the picturesque Waters of the Dora Susina; the green and mountainous Environs, with their Palatial, Baro- nial, and Abbatic Piles; the first Night of Fever; 161–162.
TABERNACLE of the Sacrament, at Ulm, very elaborate; not equal to that of San Lorenz in Nuremberg, 290. Tales:
THE MANDATE OF SCIPIO, 57.
THE RAUBRITTER AND THE VANE, 214.
THE CHATEAUX AND THEIR LORDS, 227. JOSEPHINE and CHARLEMAGNE, 322. THE GUILT OF GOLD, 333.
THE YOUNG BERNARDINE, 368.
THE STATE PRISONER, 372.
TAMIERS, romantic Situation of a Benedictine Monastery near that place, 376.
Tapestry, the ghastly Animation of its antique Imagery stirred by the Gusts, 257.
TARENTESE, a delightful Ramble through that Province,371. TATTERSHALL CASTLE, the mellow Tinctures of Time on its Brickwork, 105,
Tavern, the, and its Guests, 143.
Tea-table Miscellany, its Varieties, 222.
TEMPLES OF THE CROSS, constructed on the Imperial Basi- licæ, 93.
TENIERS, DAVID, his Mansion of the Drey Dorm, and his Quatrain thereon, 328.
Terraces, the Granite, of the Walhalla somewhat unsightly, 264.
Terrier, the little Scotch, lost, 351.
Terrors of the Durance, an old Distich thereon, 15.
TEUTONIC BALLADS, illustrated in the antique Arras of the Electoral College at Regensburg, 257.
THEATRE, the OLYMPIC, at Vicenza, the Grand Place at Mechlin compared to it, 326.
THEATRES, the, of Pompeii, 32.
The superb Mosaics in the vaulted Tribuna on the exterior of the Scala Santa, 73.
THE THREE MOORS at Augsburg; the superb Façade, the Traditionary Chambers, and stirring Reminiscences of that Palatial Hotel, 281.
The Throne in the Tomb, 321.
The Three Kings, that magnificent Hotel at Basle; an Englishman's Criterion of its Excellence, 196.
The Triumph of Maximilian, a gorgeous Fresco by Albrecht Durer, 249.
THRACIANS, the, their Paradox on Births and Deaths, 113. Time, how measured in the Tale of the Talisman; and how at the Hotel of the Giant at Coblenz, 298.
Time and Nature, their healing Assiduities counteracted by Man, 127.
Tirade of Petrarch against Avignon, 16.
Titlepage, a curious one, to a Pamphlet of Travels, in the Harleian Miscellany, 24.
TITUS, the Wilderness of Corridors, the delightful Frescoes, and sumptuous Marble Fragments in his Baths, 75. TOBIAS SMOLLETT, his Monument at Leghorn, 148. Torrents of the Izere, their destructive Ravages in the Valleys of Chambery, 371.
TORTURE CHAMBER, the, and its Racks, in the Rath-Haus at Regensburg, 258.
Torture, the tender Mercies of, exemplified in a Tale of Louvain, 331.
TOULON, and the Towns on the Cornice, the incredible Lux- uriance and lucrative Vegetation of their Precincts, 389. TOURLEMAGNE, or the Chateaux and their Lords, a Tale, 227. TOWER OF THE INQUISITION at Avignon, its characteristic Appearance, 14.
Town, the, in the Dusk, 142.
Traditionary Function of the Robin Redbreast, 241.
TRADITION of the Empress Josephine, and the Chair of Char- lemagne, at Aix la Chapelle, 322.
TRADITION of the Raubritter and the Weathercock, 214. TRADITION OF UBALDO, Archbishop of Palestine, and the precious Freight of his Fifty Vessels, 151.
Tragedies of Dryden, their general Dullness sometimes illu- minated by fine things, 265.
Traits, agreeable, of German Character, 323.
TRASTEVERE, the Procession there, 106.
TRAUSNITZ, the Fortress of, now the Town Prison of Lands- hut, 266.
Treachery, the murderous, of Tarquin the Proud, 135.
Triforium, Circular, of the Baptistery at Pisa; the stately Altitude of its columnar Tiers, 151.
Truth and Tradition on the Via Flaminia, 125.
TUILLERIES, the Enchantments of the Spring in the Groves of its Palace Gardens, 2.
TURIN, a Metropolis worthy of Sardinia; the Royal Palace and its superb Contents; the Armeria Regia; the Fair and Foul of Steel Weapons; the knightly and princely Panoplies, their mystic Solemnity turned into Burlesque; Recollection of Sir Biorn and the Pilgrim; the Palazzo Madama and its Picture Gallery; no Suburbs at Turin; the Superga ; the stately Formality of the lofty Streets, stretching away into Leagues of Avenues; the Number, Grandeur, and Amplitude of the Piazzas; that of San Carlo distinguished by Marochetti's Equestrian Statue; the Great Plain of Lombardy, and its superb Cattle; the Prison-Palace and its painful Story, Sacra San Michele, 153–160.
Twilight in the Colosseum, 126.
Twilight Landscape, from the Terrace of the Pontifical Palace, 14.
UBALDO, The Archbishop, his affectionate Value for the Soil of Jerusalem,* 151.
This amiable enthusiasm of the Florentine Prelate is not altogether without a precedent, since we find the illustrious Syrian Leper, in the first transports of gratitude for his miraculous re- covery, soliciting from Elisha a freight of Israelitish Earth; in order that he might transport, to the Palm Groves of Damascus, a me- morial of that Palestine, compared with whose balsamic Waters the vaunted tides of Abana and Pharphar shrank into insigni- ficance, and a fitting foundation for that destined Altar of which he had protested-
"Thy servant will henceforth offer neither Burnt offering nor Sacrifice unto other Gods, but unto THE LORD."-2 KINGS, v. 17.
Ugliness, inauspicious, of the Tower of the Inquisition, 14. ULM MUNSTER, its Western Tower of peerless Majesty; the Six Porches, beautified with bold Relievi; the Interior, the Sublimity of Magnitude; no Transept nor Triforium; the Five Aisles; the Painted Windows of the Choir; the sin- gular Construction of the Font; this Cathedral distin- guished by the Stalls in the Choir, embellished with Three Tiers of Busts on either side, representing Heathen, Jew- ish, and Christian Worthies; a fine Sacraments Hauslein, but unequal to that at Nüremberg, 288-290. Umbrellas, Encampment of particoloured, in the Villa Borghese, 98.
Uniform Exordium of that Devotional Phrase," Diis Mani- bus," to all Sepulchral Inscriptions at Rome, 79.
Unintentional Kindness of the Roman Hierarchy in prohibit- ing its Anglican Sister from the Vaults of its Churches, 48. Unique Features of the Banca di San Giorgio at Genoa, 26. Universe, the, Temple of Agrippa a Symbol thereof, 41. URBAN VIII., a Pope of the Barberini Family, strips the Bronze from the Dome of the Pantheon, 41.
Urn, a beautiful, in the Columbarium of Hylas, 78. Utter Insignificance of Monumental Ornament, manifested in the desolate Caves of the Scipios' Burial-place, 43.
VALOUR of the Nurembergers: their inexorable Retaliations on the RAUBRITTERS. 246.
Vastitude and robust Grandeur of the Palatial and Monastic Piles that compose the Corso at Rome, 36.
VATICAN, the Museum of, its richest Apartment the Galle- ria del Nilo, 87.
VAUCLUSE. The early Spring Morning; the Willow and Poplar Groves; the necessity of visiting, in order to ap- preciate, the "Secluded Valley;" its natural Sublimities indebted to Petrarch for their Romance; the latest, wisest, and happiest Hours of his Existence spent there; his gra- phic Pictures of the Fisherman and his Wife, 17; the dif- ferent Aspect of the Fountain and its Cavern in Winter and Summer; the two grand old Cypresses in the Curate's Garden; Ruins erroneously called Petrarch's Castle, 378. VELABRA, the Amphitheatric; Lucretius alludes to them in a magnificent Simile 33.
VENICE, Nüremberg compared to, 244.
VESTA, Temple of, its miniature Loveliness, now Santa Maria
VESUVIUS, the Necromancer of Pompeii, 28.
VEVAY, its fertile and picturesque Environs, 181. VIA EMILIA, now the Cornice, a noble Road, 21. VIA APPIA NOVA, surnamed Regina Viarum, 71.
VIA AURELIA, by the Mediterranean Shore, very beautiful, 35.
VIA FLAMINIA, with the miscalled Tomb of Nero, 123. VICTORY OF LEPANTO, commemorated by a most inhuman Monument, 146.
Villages of Bavaria, their picturesque Pastures and primitive Architecture, 224.
Ville Sonante, Avignon so nicknamed by Rabelais, 16. Vineyards and Olive-yards and Corn-fields, their Fruits denied to their Owners, 391.
Vision of Mirza, the Danube compared to the boundless vistas of its mighty Flood, 251.
Volume of Dutch Pictures, Delights of its old Baronial Hofs and Sclots and Münsters, 328.
WALHALLA Tour, the Progress from Frankfurt through Würtzburg, Nüremberg, Regensburg, München, Augs- burg, and Ulm so entitled, 223.
WALHALLA, the Temple of, utterly destitute of Gothic Gloom; romantic Beauty of its woodland Hill, sloping to the Danube; its Busts; the coloured Caryatides, and Pope's Narcissa; the Three Granite Terraces a defective Feature, 261-264.
Warriors, the Bodiless, of Stolzenfels Castle, 301. WARTHURM, at Frankfurt, an appropriate Legend for it,
Water-wheel, its picturesque Effect through sunshiney Branches by the sparkling Sorgue, 383.
Weathercocks on the Eisenheimer Thurm, their various De- vices celebrated by Hawes, 214.
Wells by the Wayside, their Beauty, their Melody, and their Utility moralized, 292; their Floral Rites still observed in England, 311.
Western Portal of St. Lorenz, of the Decorated Order, and its great Marigold Window; their florid Sculptures, 245.
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