Letters from Europe: During a Tour Through Switzerland and Italy, in the Years 1801 and 1802, Volumen1author, 1805 |
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... square , the court - yard of a forsaken con- vent , upon the top of an eminence that overlooks the adjacent houses . To this airy brow we often walked of an evening to see the last beams of sunshine linger upon the white peaks that ...
... square , the court - yard of a forsaken con- vent , upon the top of an eminence that overlooks the adjacent houses . To this airy brow we often walked of an evening to see the last beams of sunshine linger upon the white peaks that ...
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... convenient to keep a constant object for the contributions of the Devout . In the Square before it is a magnificent Fountain , with a colossal Statue of Nep- tune , tune , a celebrated work of Giovanni di Bologna , 132 AMERICAN LETTERS.
... convenient to keep a constant object for the contributions of the Devout . In the Square before it is a magnificent Fountain , with a colossal Statue of Nep- tune , tune , a celebrated work of Giovanni di Bologna , 132 AMERICAN LETTERS.
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... square Tower , the projecting quoins at the top of which make it look dan- gerously top - heavy from below . In it is preserved the original Copy of the Pandects of Justinian , discovered at Amalphi , in the year 1137 . At P At the ...
... square Tower , the projecting quoins at the top of which make it look dan- gerously top - heavy from below . In it is preserved the original Copy of the Pandects of Justinian , discovered at Amalphi , in the year 1137 . At P At the ...
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... Alike unhappily in Painting , the graces of Nature can hard- ly be displayed to advantage , without offending , more or less , against the rules of decency and continence . On On one side of the Square is an Eques . 146 AMERICAN LETTERS.
... Alike unhappily in Painting , the graces of Nature can hard- ly be displayed to advantage , without offending , more or less , against the rules of decency and continence . On On one side of the Square is an Eques . 146 AMERICAN LETTERS.
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... Square is an Eques . trian Statue of Cosmo the First , by Gio- vanni di Bologna . Double Corridors form a street to the left of the Palace , opening upon the river by Arcades . Over these is carried the celebrated Gallery , which ...
... Square is an Eques . trian Statue of Cosmo the First , by Gio- vanni di Bologna . Double Corridors form a street to the left of the Palace , opening upon the river by Arcades . Over these is carried the celebrated Gallery , which ...
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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.