Familiar Allusions: A Hand-book of Miscellaneous Information Including the Names of Celebrated Statues, Paintings, Palaces, Country-seats, Ruins, Churches, Ships, Streets, Clubs, Natural Curiosities, and the Like Begun (but Left Unfinished)Ticknor, 1887 - 584 من الصفحات |
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Abbey ancient antiquity arch Bavaria Bayard Taylor beautiful bell brated bridge British building built Byron Cæsar called Carlyle Castle cathedral cave cele celebrated century chapel church Club contains Court derives its name dome Duke edifice Egypt England erected famous Fergusson finest Florence formerly fortress France French fresco Gallery Garden Gate George Ticknor Guido Reni Hall Hill Hillard Holy House Italy J. A. Symonds Jameson John John Evelyn King known land London Lord Louvre Madonna magnificent mansion marble ment miles monument mountain Museum N. P. Willis noted painted palace Palazzo Paris Park Peter Peter Paul Rubens Piazza picture Pitti Palace Pope prison Prussia Raphael Sanzio river rock Roman Rome royal ruins Santa scene Scotland sculpture seat square stands statue stone Street Taine tavern Temple Thackeray theatre tion Titian tomb tower Trans ture Vatican Venice Villa Virgin walls well-known
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الصفحة 491 - If ever I should wish for a retreat, whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley. From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who arc descendants
الصفحة 85 - Cal. Cœsar, I never stood on ceremonies. Yet now they fright me. There is one within, Besides the things that we have heard and seen, Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch. A lioness hath whelped
الصفحة 236 - by reason and eloquence, who have put life into bronze and canvas, or who have left to posterity things so written as it shall not willingly let them die, were there mixed with all that was loveliest and gayest in the society of the most splendid of capitals. These will remember the peculiar
الصفحة 446 - you advanced to the upper end of the room, and were so much improved by a knot of theorists, who sat in the inner room, within the steams of the coffee-pot, that I there heard the whole Spanish monarchy disposed of, and all the line of Bourbons provided for in less than a quarter of an
الصفحة 553 - the veil Of heaven is half undrawn; within the pale We stand, and in that form and face behold What mind can make, when Nature's self would fail; And to the fond idolaters of old Envy the innate flash which such a soul could mould: We gaze and turn away, and know not where. Dazzled
الصفحة 492 - the roar of voices that issued from every public-house; the crowding, pushing, driving, beating, whooping, and yelling : the hideous and discordant din that resounded from every corner of the market; and the unwashed, unshaven, squalid, and dirty figures constantly running to and fro, and bursting in and out of the throng, rendered it
الصفحة 524 - an hundred years old. When Mr. Moore saw this aged man, he thought it expedient to hear him say his mind in this matter; for, being so old a man, it was likely that he knew most of any man in that presence and company. So Mr. Moore called this old man unto him, and said, ' Father,
الصفحة 492 - given to all kinds of marvellous beliefs, are subject to trances and visions, and frequently see strange sights, and hear music and voices in the air. The whole neighborhood Abounds with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions.
الصفحة 549 - Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit, to judge all the heathen round about.
الصفحة 331 - the figure and manner of the celebrated Samuel Johnson — the extraordinary' power and precision of his conversation, and the pride arising from finding myself admitted as his companion, produced a variety of sensations and a pleasing elevation of mind, beyond what I had ever experienced.