Notes on ItalyCarey & Lea, 1831 - 328 sider |
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Side 107 - ... heaps, and has not for some time composure enough to examine his riches. Its ceilings richly painted in fresco — its pictured pavements of ancient mosaic — its magnificent gates of bronze — its polished columns of ancient porphyry, the splendid spoils of the ruins of Imperial Rome, — its endless accumulation of Grecian marbles, Egyptian granites, and Oriental alabasters, the very names of which are unknown in Transalpine lands, — its bewildering extent, and prodigality of magnificence,...
Side 2 - Marvin of the said district, hare deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit: " Speeches and Forensic Arguments. BY DAICIEL WEBSTER.
Side 5 - The idea that my dreams of Italy were never to be realized seemed to darken the cloud which hung over the prospect of death itself.
Side 91 - ... body drinks wine, and to offer water to a beggar would be an insult. It is only used occasionally with lemons in hot weather. At a late hour in the evening, in many streets, may be heard the noise of Bacchanalian merriment, proceeding from some deep cavernous chamber, which, seen by lamp-light, shows nothing but coarse plastered walls, a greasy brick pavement, and benches and tables, around which, in the absence of all other comforts, the most miserable enjoy their principal, or only meal of...
Side 67 - TRANSFIGURATION, by Raphael ; and the COMMUNION OF ST JEROME, by Domenichino.
Side 76 - ... provinces with ruins, and operating, even in the bed of the primeval oceans. The speculation seemed, however, to claim quite as much affinity with poetical, as with philosophical conceptions, and, it was not till the middle of the last century, that the subject of extinct volcanos began to be investigated with accuracy and skill. The much disputed...
Side 138 - He modeled in clay numerous spirited compositions which he was obliged to destroy for want of the funds which were necessary to put them into marble or even plaster of Paris: and it was owing to the taste, judgment, and liberality of an English gentleman, that he was at last enabled to execute his first work in stone. In his work shop we were shown a basso relievo to the memory of his patron, who is represented supplying the lamp of genius with oil.
Side 2 - District of Pennsylvania^ to wit; Be it remembered, that, on the eleventh day of January, the fiftieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, AD 1826.