 | Annie Barnett - 1900 - 1060 pages
...and cypress, and pine, and the neglected walks are overgrown with weeds. The English burying-place is a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal tomb of Cestius, and is, 1 think, the most beautiful and solemn cemetery I ever beheld. To see the sun shining on its bright... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1901 - 710 pages
...Shelley also describes i£ in a letter to Peacock, December 22, 1818: ' The English hurying-plu.ce is a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal...is, I think, the most beautiful and solemn cemetery 1 ever beheld . To see the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh, whan we visited it, with the autumnal... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1901 - 712 pages
...Slielley also describes it in a letter to Peacock, December 22, 1818: ' The English burying-place ia a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal...is, I think, the most beautiful and solemn cemetery 1 ever beheld. To see the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh, when we visited it, with the autumnal... | |
 | 1917 - 800 pages
...Rome, which Shelley had described in a letter to Peacock, December 22, 1818: "The English burying-place is a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal tomb of Cestus, and is, I think the most beautiful and solemn cemetery I ever beheld. " On their return, after... | |
 | František Adolf Šubert - 1917 - 136 pages
...Rome, which Shelley had described in a letter to Peacock, December 22, 1818: "The English burying-place is a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal tomb of Cestus, and is, I think the most beautiful and solemn cemetery I ever beheld. " On their return, after... | |
 | Helen Bevington - 1991 - 234 pages
...tucked away. Shelley wrote of it to Thomas Love Peacock, December 1818, "The English burying-place is a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal...most beautiful and solemn cemetery I ever beheld." A local guide sadly informed us it contained an English poet whose grave, because he had drowned, was... | |
 | Mary Shelley - 1996 - 476 pages
...Keats, PBS, and William Shelley. MWS had visited this spot in November 1818; PBS had described it as "a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal tomb of Cestius" (PBS to Peacock, Letters 2: 59-60; cf. MWS, Journals 2: 450-51, and below, Appendix EI, 407n). 114... | |
 | Judith F. Champ - 2000 - 276 pages
...infant son. The Shelleys visited it soon after their arrival in Rome in the spring of 1819. I think it the most beautiful and solemn cemetery I ever beheld....the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh when we visited it with the autumnal dews and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees... | |
 | Stuart Peterfreund - 2002 - 432 pages
...observations echoing in his conclusion the conclusion of "Mont Blanc." The English bur[y]ing place is a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal tomb of Cestius, &, is, I think the most beautiful and solemn cemetery I ever beheld. To see the sun shining on its... | |
 | Henry Carr Pearson - 2018 - 240 pages
...great as London. The English burying-place is a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal 20 tomb of Cestius, and is, I think, the most beautiful...beheld. To see the sun shining on its bright grass, when we first visited it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves... | |
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I wind among the leaves of the trees which have overgrown the tomb of Cestius, and the soil which is stirring in the sun-warm earth, and to mark the tombs, mostly of women... 
