Roba D'Italia: Or, Italian Lights and Shadows: a Record of Travel, Volumen1

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Página 343 - And watch'd them in their sullen trade, Had seen the mice by moonlight play, And why should I feel less than they ? We were all inmates of one place, And I, the monarch of each race, Had power to kill — yet, strange to tell ! In quiet we had learn'd to dwell. My very chains and I grew friends, So much a long communion tends To make us what we are ; — even I Regain'd my freedom with a sigh.
Página 124 - This view, most popular at the end of the last and the beginning of this century and coinciding with the golden age of natural sciences, found its strongest support among biologists.
Página 50 - We gaze and turn away, and know not where, Dazzled and drunk with Beauty, till the heart Reels with its fulness ; there — for ever there — Chained to the chariot of triumphal Art, We stand as captives, and would not depart.
Página 171 - But all lesser plunder has been obliterated by the more splendid rapine of the Farnese princes. The Baths of Constantine, the Forum of Trajan, the Arch of Titus, the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, the Theatre of Marcellus, added their marbles to the spoils of the Coliseum ; and the accounts of the Apostolic chamber record a sum of 7,317,888 crowns expended between the years 1541 and 1549 upon the gigantic palace of Campo di Fiore alone.
Página 117 - In the mean time, three cardinal legates are sent to open the three other holy gates, which are in the churches of St. John of Lateran, St. Paul, and St. Mary the Greater. When the holy year is expired, the holy gates are shut in this manner.
Página 29 - Father," said the indignant Spaniard, " if the King my master had thought that honour consists in a beard, he would have sent you a goat and not a nobleman like myself.
Página 59 - Santa, a flight of twenty-eight marble steps said to have been brought from the palace of Pontius Pilate at Jerusalem and to have been ascended by Christ crowned with thorns.
Página i - Charles William. 1. Roba d' Italia; or, Italian Lights and Shadows: a Record of Travel, Lon., 1875,2 vols. 8vo. 2. The Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries, Lon., 1875, 2 vols. p.

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