The Tiber and the Thames: Their Associations, Past and PresentLippincott, 1876 - 100 стор. |
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Сторінка 61 - Thames, you see through my arch up a walk of the wilderness, to a kind of open temple, wholly composed of shells in the rustic manner...
Сторінка 35 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land...
Сторінка 92 - The forehead and temples had lost little or nothing of their muscular substance ; the cartilage of the nose was gone ; but the left eye, in the first moment of exposure, was .open and full, though it vanished almost immediately ; and the pointed beard, so characteristic of the period of the reign of King Charles, was perfect.
Сторінка 92 - The hair was thick at the back part of the head, and, in appearance, nearly black. A portion of it, which has since been cleaned and dried, is of a beautiful dark brown colour.
Сторінка 61 - Camera obscura, on the walls of which all the objects of the river, hills, woods and boats are forming a moving picture in their visible radiations; and when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different scene. It is finished with shells interspersed with...
Сторінка 92 - On the back part of the head, it was not more than an inch in length, and had probably been cut so short for the convenience of the executioner, or, perhaps, by the piety of friends soon after death, in order to furnish memorials of the unhappy king.
Сторінка 93 - ... head, to examine the place of separation from the body, the muscles of the neck had evidently retracted themselves considerably ; and the fourth cervical vertebra was found to be cut through its substance transversely, leaving the surfaces of the divided portions perfectly smooth and even, an appearance which could have been produced only by a heavy blow, inflicted with a very sharp instrument, and which furnished the last proof wanting to identify King Charles the First.
Сторінка 50 - Here let us trace the matchless vale of Thames, Far winding up to where the Muses haunt, To Twit'nam's howers; to royal HAMPTON'S pile ; To Claremont's terraced height and Eshei-'s groves.
Сторінка 46 - Muses' friend and mine; With love and wit thou dost begin, False fires, alas, to draw us in. Which, if our course we by them keep, Misguide to madness, or to sleep. Sleep were well; thou'hast learnt a way To death itself now to betray.
Сторінка 44 - And through the Eye correct the Heart. If Genius fire thee, Reader, stay ; If Nature touch thee, drop a tear, If neither move thee, turn away; For Hogarth's honoured dust lies here.