The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, Том 1Ticknor and Fields, 1860 |
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... churches , built on the old pavements of heathen temples , and supported by the very pillars that once upheld them . At a distance beyond — yet but a little way , considering how much history is heaped into the intervening space - rises ...
... churches , built on the old pavements of heathen temples , and supported by the very pillars that once upheld them . At a distance beyond — yet but a little way , considering how much history is heaped into the intervening space - rises ...
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... church - aisles and grimy cellars and chiefly the latter seemed to be broken into frag- ments , and hopelessly intermingled . The intricate pas- sages along which they followed their guide had been hewn , in some forgotten age , out of ...
... church - aisles and grimy cellars and chiefly the latter seemed to be broken into frag- ments , and hopelessly intermingled . The intricate pas- sages along which they followed their guide had been hewn , in some forgotten age , out of ...
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... church , it was ex- ceedingly minute , being scarcely twice a man's stature in height , and only two or three paces from wall to wall ; and while their collected torches illuminated this one , small , consecrated spot , the great ...
... church , it was ex- ceedingly minute , being scarcely twice a man's stature in height , and only two or three paces from wall to wall ; and while their collected torches illuminated this one , small , consecrated spot , the great ...
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... church , of course , was near at hand , the façade of which ascended into lofty pinnacles , whereon were perched two or three winged figures of stone , either angelic or allegorical , blowing stone trum- pets in close vicinity to the ...
... church , of course , was near at hand , the façade of which ascended into lofty pinnacles , whereon were perched two or three winged figures of stone , either angelic or allegorical , blowing stone trum- pets in close vicinity to the ...
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... Church . — As Miriam approached , she looked upward , and saw not , indeed , the flame of the never - dying lamp , which was swallowed up in the broad sunlight that brightened the shrine - but a flock of white doves , skimming , flut ...
... Church . — As Miriam approached , she looked upward , and saw not , indeed , the flame of the never - dying lamp , which was swallowed up in the broad sunlight that brightened the shrine - but a flock of white doves , skimming , flut ...
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50 cents 63 cents 75 cents answered Miriam antique Apennines Arch of Titus arches artist bas-reliefs Beatrice Cenci beautiful beheld beneath breath Capitoline Hill catacomb church close Cloth Coliseum companion creature cried dance dark dead dear delicate delightful Dona Donatello dream evil eyes face fancy Faun flinging forever fountain gazed gentle glance hand happy haunted heart Hilda human idea imagination Italian Italy Kenyon laughing light look machicolated maiden marble mirth moral NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE natural never once painter palace perhaps piazza pict picture pillars Pincian Hill POEMS POETICAL Porta del Popolo portrait Praxiteles Pray rejoined replied Roman Rome ruin satyrs scene sculptor seemed shadow shrine side signorina sketch smile sorrow soul spectre spirit statue steps stone strange sunshine sympathy thing thought tion touch tower Trajan truth turned vanished walls whispered wild wine woman wonder wrought young youth
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Сторінка 218 - They threw one other glance at the heap of death below, to assure themselves that it was there; so like a dream was the whole thing. Then they turned from that fatal precipice, and came out of the court-yard, arm in arm, heart in heart. Instinctively, they were heedful not to sever themselves so much as a pace or two from one another, for fear of the terror and deadly chill that would thenceforth wait for them in solitude. Their deed — the crime which Donatello wrought, and Miriam accepted on the...
Сторінка v - He meant it for that one congenial friend — more comprehensive of his purposes, more appreciative of his success, more indulgent of his short-comings, and, in all respects, closer and kinder than a brother — that all-sympathizing critic, in short, whom an author never actually meets, but to whom he implicitly makes his appeal whenever he is conscious of having done his best. The antique fashion of prefaces recognized this genial personage as the " Kind Reader," the " Gentle Reader," the " Beloved,"...
Сторінка 157 - Not a nude figure, I hope!" observed Miriam. "Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing. I am weary, even more than I am ashamed, of seeing such things. Now-a-days, people are as good as born in their clothes, and there is practically not a nude human being in existence. An artist, therefore,— as you must candidly confess,— cannot sculpture...
Сторінка 17 - It is a vague sense of ponderous remembrances; a perception of such weight and density in a by-gone life, of which this spot was the centre, that the present moment is pressed down or crowded out, and our individual affairs and interests are but half as real, here, as elsewhere.
Сторінка 146 - but, as with dreamers when they shout, her voice would perish inaudibly in the remoteness that seemed such a little way. This perception of an infinite, shivering solitude, amid which we cannot come close enough to human beings to be warmed by them, and where they turn to cold, chilly shapes of mist, is one of the most forlorn results of any accident, misfortune, crime, or peculiarity of character, that puts an individual ajar with the world.
Сторінка viii - No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.
Сторінка 73 - The customs of artist life bestow such liberty upon the sex, which is elsewhere restricted within so much narrower limits ; and it is perhaps an indication that, whenever we admit women to a wider scope of pursuits and professions, we must also remove the shackles of our present conventional rules, which would then become an insufferable restraint on either maid or wife.
Сторінка 201 - Roman triumph, that most gorgeous pageant of earthly pride, had streamed and flaunted in hundred-fold succession over these same flagstones, and through this yet stalwart archway. It is politic, however, to make few allusions to such a past ; nor, if we would create an interest in the characters of our story, is it wise to suggest how Cicero's foot may have stepped on yonder stone, or how Horace was wont to stroll near by, making his footsteps chime with the measure of the ode that was ringing in...
Сторінка 66 - She was very youthful, and had what was usually thought to be a Jewish aspect; a complexion in which there was no roseate bloom, yet neither was it pale; dark eyes, into which you might look as deeply as your glance would go, and still be conscious of a depth that you had not sounded, though it lay open to the day. She had black, abundant hair, with none of the vulgar glossiness of other women's sable locks; if she were really of Jewish blood, then this was Jewish hair, and a dark glory such as crowns...
Сторінка 93 - The scenery amid which the youth now strayed was such as arrays itself in the imagination when we read the beautiful old myths, and fancy a brighter sky, a softer turf, a more picturesque arrangement of venerable trees, than we find in the rude and untrained landscapes of the Western world.