Six Months in Italy, Volume 1Ticknor, Reed, and Field, 1854 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
admirable antiquity arches architecture artist awaken bas-reliefs basilica Baths of Caracalla beauty Bologna bronze Bucentaur building busts cathedral century chapel character church Civita Vecchia color colossal Colosseum columns Correggio countenance crowned dome Domenichino drapery earth excellence expression façade face feeling feet figure finest Florence flowers fountain fresco gallery garden genius grace grandeur hand head honor impression interest Italian Italy landscape light look marble Maria Mark's Mark's Place Medicean Chapel ment merit Michael Angelo mind monument mosaic nature never noble obelisk objects occupied painted painter palace Palazzo peculiar Peter's Piazza Pitti Palace poetry pope portico portrait purity Raphael repose representing rich Roman Rome ruins sarcophagus scene sculpture seems seen shadows Sistine Chapel spirit statue structure taste temple thing tion Titian traveller Trieste Vatican Venetian Venice Venus de Medici villa walks walls whole youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 166 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Página 299 - Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle that showeth best in varied lights.
Página 63 - Inferno, the great poet drew one of these striking and picturesque images, characteristic alike of the boldness and the power of his genius, which never hesitated to look for its materials among the homely details and familiar incidents of life. In his hands, the boiling of pitch and the calking of seams ascend to the dignity of poetry.
Página 176 - Nor is she more remarkable for genius and learning than for sweetness of temper, tenderness of heart, depth of feeling, and purity of spirit. It is a privilege to know such beings singly and separately ; but to see their powers quickened, and their happiness rounded, by the sacred tie of marriage, is a cause for peculiar and lusting gratitude. A union so complete as theirs — in which the mind has nothing to crave, nor the heart to sigh for— is cordial to behold, and cheering to remember." pp....
Página 175 - A happier home and a more perfect " union than theirs it is not easy to imagine ; " and this completeness arises not only from the " rare qualities which each possesses, but from " their perfect adaptation to each other.
Página 167 - Clothing the palpable and the familiar With golden exhalations of the dawn. Whatever fortunes wait my future toils, The beautiful is vanished — and returns not.
Página 303 - As a matter of course, every body goes to see the Colosseum by moonlight. The great charm of the ruin under this condition is, that the imagination is substituted for sight ; and the mind, for the eye. The essential character of moonlight is hard rather than soft. The line between light and shadow is sharply defined, and there is no gradation of color. Blocks and walls of silver are bordered by, and spring out of chasms of blackness. But moonlight shrouds the Colosseum in mystery. It opens deep vaults...
Página 305 - ... which conquer all, it has bowed its head to their touch, and passed into the inevitable cycle of decay.
Página 176 - VOL. i. 12 manner. Her figure is slight, her countenance expressive of genius and sensibility, shaded by a veil of long brown locks ; and her tremulous voice often flutters over her words, like the flame of a dying candle over the wick.
Página 38 - Everything is dreamlike and unsubstantial—a fairy pageant floating upon the waters; a city of cloudland rather than of the earth. The gondola itself, in which the traveller reclines, contributes to weave the spell in which his thoughts and senses are involved. No form of locomotion ever gratified so well the two warring tendencies of the human soul, the love of movement and the love of repose. There is no noise, no fatigue, no danger, no dust It is managed with such skill and so little apparent...