Handbook for Travellers in Northern Italy ...J. Murray, 1854 - 564 pages |
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Albergo Alessandria Alps amongst ancient Andrea Angels arches architect architecture artist Austrian bas-reliefs beautiful Bergamo Brescia bronze building built called Camillo Procaccini canal Carlo castle cathedral celebrated centre century centy chapel choir church of San colour columns contains Cremona Cross crowned cupola curious Doge Duke Duomo edifice Emperor erected executed façade figures formed France Francesco French frescoes front Genoa Genoese Giovanni Giulio Romano Gothic Guercino high altar Inhab inscription interior Italian Italy Lombard Lord Luini Madonna Mantua marble Maria ment Milan Monte monument nave noble Oneglia ornaments Padua paintings palace Palazzo Paolo Veronese Parma Pavia Piacenza Piazza picture Pietro Porta portion portrait principal remarkable representing rich road Roman Saints sculpture side specimen statue style tains Tintoretto tion Titian tomb towers town transept traveller Turin vaulting Venetian Venice Verona Veronese Vicenza village Virgin and Child Visconti walls
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Page 285 - There is a glorious city in the sea; The sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing; and the salt sea-weed Clings to the marble of her palaces. No track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates! The path lies o'er the sea, Invisible: and from the land we went, As to a floating city — steering in, And gliding up her streets, as in a dream...
Page 199 - And drove those holy Vandals off the stage. But see ! each Muse in Leo's golden days Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays ; Rome's ancient genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his reverend head.
Page 115 - In the division and the decline of the empire, the tributary harvests of Egypt and Africa were withdrawn; the numbers of the inhabitants continually diminished with the means of subsistence; and the country was exhausted by the irretrievable losses of war, famine, and pestilence.
Page 221 - I have been these six weeks, and still am, at my dairy-house, which joins to my garden. I believe I have already told you it is a long mile from the castle, which is situate in the midst of a very large village, once a considerable town, part of the walls still remaining, and has not vacant ground enough about it to make a garden, which is my greatest amusement, it being now troublesome to walk, or even go in the chaise till the evening. I have fitted up in this farm-house a room...
Page 285 - THERE is a glorious City in the Sea. The Sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing ; and the salt sea-weed Clings to the marble of her palaces. No track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates. The path lies o'er the Sea, Invisible ; and from the land we went, As to a floating City, — steering in, And gliding up her streets as in a dream...
Page 267 - Troy was ruin'd in that cruel war? Then fates to fates I could oppose : but now, When Fortune still pursues her former blow, What can I hope ? What worse can still succeed ? What end of labors has your will decreed ? Antenor, from the midst of Grecian hosts, Could pass secure, and pierce th' Illyrian coasts, Where rolling down the steep, Timavus raves, And through nine channels disembogues his waves.
Page 305 - Bolle l' inverno la tenace pece, A rimpalmar li legni lor non sani Che navicar non ponno ; e 'n quella vece Chi fa suo legno nuovo, e chi ristoppa Le coste a quel che più viaggi fece ; Chi ribatte da proda e chi da poppa ; Altri fa remi ed altri volge sarte, Chi terzeruolo ed artimon rintoppa: Tal non per fuoco ma per divina arte, Bollia laggiuso una pegola spessa, Che 'nviscava la ripa d' ogni parte. 1' vedea lei , ma non vedeva in essa Ma...
Page 221 - I can assure you, shall be very literal, without any embellishment from imagination. It is on a bank, forming a kind of peninsula, raised from the river Oglio fifty feet, to which you may descend by easy stairs cut in the turf, and either take the air on the river, which is as large as the...
Page 199 - The Poet's bays and Critic's ivy grow : Cremona now shall ever boast thy name, As next in place to Mantua, next in fame...
Page 259 - Massena' s grenadiers, and were driven back with heavy loss. Mitrouski, at the same time, passed through Arcóla, crossed the bridge, and attacked the corps of Augereau ; but they also were repulsed, and followed to the bridge by the victorious French. There commenced a desperate struggle : the Republican column advanced with the utmost intrepidity ; but they were received with so tremendous a fire from the artillery in front, and a line of infantry stationed along the banks of the Alpon in flank,...