Letters from Europe: During a Tour Through Switzerland and Italy, in the Years 1801 and 1802, Volumen1author, 1805 |
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... Mosaics - Chapel of Sixtus V - of Paul V - Santa Maria degli Angeli The Holy Apostles - Tomb of Clement XIV - Church of St. Ignatius - Ceiling painted by Father Pozzi - Superb Tomb of Gregory XV - Altar Pieces- Church of Jesu - Altar of ...
... Mosaics - Chapel of Sixtus V - of Paul V - Santa Maria degli Angeli The Holy Apostles - Tomb of Clement XIV - Church of St. Ignatius - Ceiling painted by Father Pozzi - Superb Tomb of Gregory XV - Altar Pieces- Church of Jesu - Altar of ...
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... Mosaics , executed in the infancy of the art , by Ghirlandajo , and Gaddo Gaddi ; and dusky Monuments , stuck here and there upon the walls , contri- bute to the general gloom . The Front of this immense pile has never been finished ...
... Mosaics , executed in the infancy of the art , by Ghirlandajo , and Gaddo Gaddi ; and dusky Monuments , stuck here and there upon the walls , contri- bute to the general gloom . The Front of this immense pile has never been finished ...
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... Mosaics of the Dome were done by Apollonius , a Grecian Artist , in the Twelfth Century - but they are scarcely visible , by the twilight glimmer that is admitted from without - in meridian sun- shine . Beneath its whelming Canopy , I ...
... Mosaics of the Dome were done by Apollonius , a Grecian Artist , in the Twelfth Century - but they are scarcely visible , by the twilight glimmer that is admitted from without - in meridian sun- shine . Beneath its whelming Canopy , I ...
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... mosaic tints , to the opening of the Dome , a hundred and fifty feet diameter , and three hun- dred high - lighted by sixteen windows , and ribbed into lateral divisions , in whose broad circumference the twelve Apostles attend the ...
... mosaic tints , to the opening of the Dome , a hundred and fifty feet diameter , and three hun- dred high - lighted by sixteen windows , and ribbed into lateral divisions , in whose broad circumference the twelve Apostles attend the ...
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... of John . In six elliptical compartments , three of them on either hand , are displayed , in brilliant mosaics , designed by the first Masters , Dd Masters , after the descriptions of the Pro- phets and FROM EUROPE . 209.
... of John . In six elliptical compartments , three of them on either hand , are displayed , in brilliant mosaics , designed by the first Masters , Dd Masters , after the descriptions of the Pro- phets and FROM EUROPE . 209.
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Altar ancient Antiquity Apartments Appian Arcades Arch Arch of Trajan ascend Baiocc Bas Reliefs Baths of Caracalla Baths of Titus beautiful bronze Cæsar Cardinal Ceiling celebrated ceremony Chamber Chapel Christ Christian Church Coach Colonnade Columns Corridor Court cross descend Dome Domenichino door Edifice Egyptian elevation Emperor Entablature erected exhibits feet diameter fifty feet French Gallery gate Guercino Hall hand head Holy hundred feet Imperial inscriptions Italian Italy Julius Cæsar kneeling lake magnificent ment Michael Angelo miles modern mosaic mountain Nave Obelisk ornamented painted Painter Palace Papal Paul pavement Peter's Pietro da Cortona Pius Pius VI Pontifical Pope Portico Priest Prince Raphael richly Roman Rome Rotunda Saint Scipio Sculpture seen side Sixtus square Stair-case Statues stone Story streets sublimity supported surrounded Switzerland Temple ther thousand tion tomb town twenty Tyber Unterwalden vault venerable Villa Adriana village Virgin walls Zurich
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Página 228 - Therefore thus saith the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
Página 436 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Página 212 - A woman clothed with the sun, having the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
Página 349 - And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost' and altogetherv such as I am, except these bonds.
Página 173 - For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
Página 208 - Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona ; for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Página 184 - Yet hear, alas ! this mournful truth, Nor hear it with a frown ; — Thou canst not make the tea so fast As I can gulp it down.
Página 109 - Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms ; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more.
Página 34 - Tell's exploit of shooting the apple from the head of his son at the command of the tyrant Gessler. The place where the tree stood to which his son was bound, and on which Gessler's hat was placed, is covered by a handsome fountain.
Página 46 - ... to posterity in the pages of history. Indeed, his name would never have been heard of had it not been for the generous allusion made to him by Vancouver, in his narrative published six years afterwards.