Rome in the Nineteenth Century: Containing a Complete Account of the Ruins of the Ancient City, the Remains of the Middle Ages, and the Monuments of Modern Times, Volume 1John Murray, 1826 |
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Page xiii - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present — advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 148 - For softness she, and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him: His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad...
Page xiv - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Page i - ROME in the NINETEENTH CENTURY. Containing a complete Account of the Ruins of the Ancient City, the Remains of the Middle Ages, and the Monuments of Modern Times.
Page i - Tis Rome requires our tears. The mistress of the world, the seat of empire, The nurse of heroes, the delight of gods, That humbled the proud tyrants of the earth, And set the nations free, Rome is no more.
Page 217 - THOU stranger, which for Rome in Rome here seekest, And nought of Rome in Rome perceiv'st at all, These same old walls, old arches, which thou seest, Old palaces, is that which Rome men call. Behold what wreck, what ruin, and what waste, And how that she, which with her mighty power Tamed all the world, hath tamed herself at last ; The prey of Time, which all things doth devour. Rome now of Rome is...
Page 31 - Transplanters assignments in the barony of Burren, one of the barrenest, where it was commonly said there was not wood enough to hang a man, water enough to drown him, or earth enough to bury him.
Page 93 - Over this wild waste, no rural dwelling, nor scattered hamlets, nor fields, nor gardens, such as usually mark the approach to a populous city, were to be seen. All was ruin ; fallen monuments of Roman days, — grey towers of Gothic times, — abandoned habitations of modern years, — alone met the eye. No trace of man appeared, except in the lonely tomb, which told us he had been. Rome herself was all that we beheld. She stood alone in the wilderness, as in the world, surrounded by a desert of...
Page 56 - ... her, and put the wedding-ring on her finger ! My astonishment was unutterable. I have seen the marriage of Christ and St Catherine, a thousand times, in painting ; but I always concluded it to be metaphorical, or thought at most, that credulity had magnified some accidental dream into a vision sent by Heaven ; but it never once entered into my head that any human being had ever imagined, or pretended, that such a marriage really did take place. Yet here I was repeatedly and most solemnly assured...
Page 128 - I realized the scene, and could appreciate the sentiment of a former traveller. "The clear blue sky, in calm repose above our heads, breathed its serenity into our minds ; the glorious sun shed its beams of brightness on all the surrounding objects with undiminished splendour ; nature was unchanged — but we stood amidst the ruins of that proud fabric which man had destined for eternity. All had passed away — the conquerors, the victims, the imperial tyrants, the slavish multitudes — all the...