 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1960 - 248 pages
...where his own heart was to lie, in a letter of 22 Dec. 1818, to Peacock. "The English buryingplace is a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal tomb of Cost ins, and is, I think, the most beautiful and solemn cemetery I ever beheld. To see the sun shining... | |
 | 1917 - 784 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... | |
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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... 
