Familiar Allusions: A Hand-book of Miscellaneous Information Including the Names of Celebrated Statues, Paintings, Palaces, Country-seats, Ruins, Churches, Ships, Streets, Clubs, Natural Curiosities, and the Like Begun (but Left Unfinished)Houghton, Mifflin, 1881 - 584 páginas |
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... feet , form- ing a huge charnel - house into which the bodies of the dead were thrown . It is traditionally of the time of Jerome . The soil was thought to consume the bodies within twenty - four hours . The place is no longer used for ...
... feet , form- ing a huge charnel - house into which the bodies of the dead were thrown . It is traditionally of the time of Jerome . The soil was thought to consume the bodies within twenty - four hours . The place is no longer used for ...
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... feet gradually to the centre of the room , which is 100 x 30 feet . At the north end there is a most magnificent pulpit . . . . It is complet- ed with the most beautiful drapery of alabaster sterites of all colors , varying from white ...
... feet gradually to the centre of the room , which is 100 x 30 feet . At the north end there is a most magnificent pulpit . . . . It is complet- ed with the most beautiful drapery of alabaster sterites of all colors , varying from white ...
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... feet by 54 feet in size , and is said to be the largest in Europe . " There are 142 figures in it , and it is proba- bly the most magnificent pittura di machina of the decorative period in which it was executed . " It is painted on the ...
... feet by 54 feet in size , and is said to be the largest in Europe . " There are 142 figures in it , and it is proba- bly the most magnificent pittura di machina of the decorative period in which it was executed . " It is painted on the ...
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... feet high , 145 feet wide , and 110 feet deep . " It was not , however , till we stood almost beneath it that we really felt the grandeur of this great arch , in- cluding so large a space of the blue sky in its airy sweep . At a ...
... feet high , 145 feet wide , and 110 feet deep . " It was not , however , till we stood almost beneath it that we really felt the grandeur of this great arch , in- cluding so large a space of the blue sky in its airy sweep . At a ...
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... feet long , 332 feet broad , and 72 feet high , and is one of the finest remains of the kind in existence . " Rousseau , in the last century , complained of the neglected state in which the arenas of Nimes were allowed to lie .... Not ...
... feet long , 332 feet broad , and 72 feet high , and is one of the finest remains of the kind in existence . " Rousseau , in the last century , complained of the neglected state in which the arenas of Nimes were allowed to lie .... Not ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Abbey ancient antiquity arch Bavaria Bayard Taylor beautiful bell brated bridge British building built Byron Cæsar called Carlyle Castle cathedral cave cele celebrated century chapel Christ church Club contains Court derives its name dome Duke edifice Egypt England erected famous Fergusson finest Florence formerly fortress France French fresco Gallery Garden Gate George Ticknor Hall Hill Hillard Holy House Italy J. A. Symonds Jameson John John Evelyn King known land London Lord Louvre Madonna magnificent mansion marble ment miles monument mountain Museum N. P. Willis noted painted palace Palazzo Paris Park Peter Peter Paul Rubens Piazza picture Pitti Palace Pope prison Prussia Raphael Sanzio river rock Roman Rome royal ruins Santa scene Scotland sculpture seat ship square stands statue stone Street Taine tavern Temple Thackeray theatre tion Titian tomb tower Trans ture Vatican Venice Villa Virgin walls well-known
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Página 133 - To me it is a most touching face; perhaps, of all faces that I know, the most so. Lonely there, painted as on vacancy, with the simple laurel wound round it...
Página 59 - About this time it was much the fashion for several ladies to have evening assemblies, where the fair sex might participate in conversation with literary and ingenious men, animated by a desire to please.
Página 570 - WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey: where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness that is not disagreeable.
Página 485 - If ever I should wish for a retreat whither I might steal from the world and its distractions and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley.
Página 269 - I felt the Laocoon very powerfully, though very quietly ; an immortal agony with a strange calmness diffused through it, so that it resembles the vast rage of the sea, calm on account of its immensity ; or the tumult of Niagara, which does not seem to be tumult, because it keeps pouring on forever and ever.
Página 331 - This pillar was set up in perpetual remembrance of the most dreadful burning of this protestant city, begun and carried on by the treachery and malice of the popish faction, in the beginning of September, in the year of our Lord 1666. In order to the carrying on their horrid plot for extirpating the protestant religion and old English liberty, and introducing popery and slavery.
Página 230 - Europe, who have moved great assemblies by reason and eloquence, who have put life into bronze and canvas, or who have left to posterity things so written as it shall not willingly let them die, were there mixed with all that was loveliest and gayest in the society of the most splendid of capitals.
Página 467 - Stall," struck sharp upon the ear, and the prow turned aside under the mighty cornices that half met over the narrow canal, where the plash of the water followed close and loud, ringing along the marble by the boat's side ; and when at last that boat darted forth upon the breadth of silver sea, across which the front of the Ducal palace, flushed with its sanguine veins, looks to the snowy dome of Our Lady of Salvation...
Página 363 - Caesars' palace came The owl's long cry, and, interruptedly, Of distant sentinels the fitful song Begun and died upon the gentle wind. Some cypresses beyond the time-worn breach Appear'd to skirt the horizon, yet they stood Within a bowshot.
Página 113 - Rome ; The trees which grew along the broken arches Waved dark in the blue midnight, and the stars Shone through the rents of ruin ; from afar The watch-dog bayed beyond the Tiber ; and More near from out the Caesars...