My travels, or, An unsentimental journey through France, Switzerland and Italy, Том 3Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1855 |
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... statues ; but Santa Rosalia's fête - day has one unfortunate remembrance - the bouquet of the fire - works was the signal for the revolution in 1820 . The interior of the cathedral , although the unity of style is destroyed , is yet ...
... statues ; but Santa Rosalia's fête - day has one unfortunate remembrance - the bouquet of the fire - works was the signal for the revolution in 1820 . The interior of the cathedral , although the unity of style is destroyed , is yet ...
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... statues have some pretension to admiration ; and the chapels , which are in the naves , or the grand altar , with its exquisite marble bal- lustrade , cannot be passed unnoticed . But throughout all Italy , the churches from first being ...
... statues have some pretension to admiration ; and the chapels , which are in the naves , or the grand altar , with its exquisite marble bal- lustrade , cannot be passed unnoticed . But throughout all Italy , the churches from first being ...
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... statues , than the pious devotion , the earnest prayer , or solemn ex- hortation , let us turn to other sights and other scenes , remarking only , that if the shrines of the saints with their useless ornaments , their virgins with ...
... statues , than the pious devotion , the earnest prayer , or solemn ex- hortation , let us turn to other sights and other scenes , remarking only , that if the shrines of the saints with their useless ornaments , their virgins with ...
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... statue by crowning it with gems ; besides , many of these saints , when living , delighted in relieving the poor , and abstaining from all worldly splendour . It is rather too bad in the saint's admirers , to make him do that in his ...
... statue by crowning it with gems ; besides , many of these saints , when living , delighted in relieving the poor , and abstaining from all worldly splendour . It is rather too bad in the saint's admirers , to make him do that in his ...
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... statue of Santa Rosalia , which stands upon the high and beetling cliff beyond the Monte Pellegrino ; the morning was deliciously cool , the water hardly crisped by the slightest breeze , and the atmosphere as clear as the Italian skies ...
... statue of Santa Rosalia , which stands upon the high and beetling cliff beyond the Monte Pellegrino ; the morning was deliciously cool , the water hardly crisped by the slightest breeze , and the atmosphere as clear as the Italian skies ...
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Сторінка 136 - ... a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of oil olive and honey; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
Сторінка 136 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy GOD chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy GOD, to walk in His ways, and to fear Him. For the LORD thy GOD bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Сторінка 214 - Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thine hand to do it. Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, And to-morrow I will give: When thou hast it by thee.
Сторінка 312 - There is a fixed and pale composure upon the features: she seems sad and stricken down in spirit, yet the despair thus expressed is lightened by the patience of gentleness. Her head is bound with folds of white drapery from which the yellow strings of her golden hair escape, and fall about her neck.
Сторінка 226 - But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone — with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook His former city, what could be, Of earthly structures, in His honour piled, Of a sublimer aspect? Majesty, Power, Glory, Strength, and Beauty, all are aisled In this eternal ark of worship undefiled.
Сторінка 185 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Сторінка 202 - Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
Сторінка 103 - Angel of life! thy glittering wings explore Earth's loneliest bounds, and Ocean's wildest shore. Lo! to the wintry winds the pilot yields His bark careering o'er...
Сторінка 312 - In the whole mien there is a simplicity and dignity which, united with her exquisite loveliness and deep sorrow, are inexpressibly pathetic.
Сторінка 102 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty : For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors to my blood ; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility ; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly...