The Book of Italian Travel (1580-1900)G. Richards, 1903 - 458 pages |
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Page 30 - lisp and wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your own country, be out of love with your nativity, and almost chide God for making you that countenance you are, or I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola.
Page 74 - in ever-winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of Spring in that divinest climate, and the new life with which it drenches the spirits even to intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama.
Page 39 - After a sleepless night, I trod with a lofty step the ruins of the Forum ; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool or minute
Page 39 - is not very susceptible of enthusiasm, and the enthusiasm which I do not feel I have ever scorned to affect . But at the distance of twenty-five years I can neither forget nor express the strong emotions which agitated my mind as I first approached and entered the eternal
Page 24 - native harbour ; and at my departure toward Rome (which had been the centre of his experience) I had won his confidence enough to beg his advice how I might carry myself there without offence of others or of mine own conscience. ' Signor Arrigo mio' says he, ' / pensieri stretti ed il visa sciolto
Page 33 - The most amusing passage of his book is his account of the minute republic of San Marino ; of many parts, it is not a very severe censure to say that they might have been written at home. His elegance of language and variegation of prose and verse, however, gains upon the reader.
Page 13 - Plus me plait le sejour qu'ont bati mes aieux, Que des palais romains le front audacieux, Plus que le marbre dur me plait 1'ardoise fine ; " Plus mon Loyre gaulois que le
Page 74 - Is this, an uninhabited sea-side Which the lone fisher, when his nets are dried, Abandons; and no other object breaks The waste, but one dwarf tree and some few stakes Broken and unrepaired, and the tide makes A narrow space
Page 34 - Green fields and groves, flowery meadows and purling streams are nowhere in such perfection as in England ; but if you would know lightsome days, warm suns, and blue skies, you must come to Italy; and to enable a man to describe rocks and precipices, it is absolutely necessary that he pass the Alps.
Page 73 - a famous old feudal palazzo, on the Arno, large enough for a garrison, with dungeons below and cells in the walls, and so full of ghosts, that the learned Fletcher (my valet) has begged leave to change his room, and then refused to occupy his new room, because there were more ghosts there than in the other.