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... delight , reverence and meditation , at the end of the endless ways , where only the restless poplars tell the ceaseless hours . It is my purpose in this book to consider the nature and the history of this country , to recapture and to ...
... delight , reverence and meditation , at the end of the endless ways , where only the restless poplars tell the ceaseless hours . It is my purpose in this book to consider the nature and the history of this country , to recapture and to ...
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Edward Hutton. of Europe , and I can imagine no more propitious and delightful seclusion for such a contemplation of ... delight : and yet not all delight . I do not know , nor shall I ever understand precisely what it is that lends to ...
Edward Hutton. of Europe , and I can imagine no more propitious and delightful seclusion for such a contemplation of ... delight : and yet not all delight . I do not know , nor shall I ever understand precisely what it is that lends to ...
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Edward Hutton. and an exquisite delight does not presently pass away . Certainly it cannot endure beyond a night at Stresa or Luino or Lugano or even Como , where the traveller will be involved at once in every sort of touristry : but if ...
Edward Hutton. and an exquisite delight does not presently pass away . Certainly it cannot endure beyond a night at Stresa or Luino or Lugano or even Como , where the traveller will be involved at once in every sort of touristry : but if ...
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... delightful , and the view to be had from the top , though it may not compare with that from Monte Generoso , is sufficiently satisfying to make the climb necessary . For , thence we may see the Alps from the Col di Tenda to Monte Viso ...
... delightful , and the view to be had from the top , though it may not compare with that from Monte Generoso , is sufficiently satisfying to make the climb necessary . For , thence we may see the Alps from the Col di Tenda to Monte Viso ...
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Edward Hutton. wood where the camellias grow so plentifully are quiet and delightful . Isola Madre , like Isola Bella , belongs to the Borromeo family , one of the best in Lombardy , whose most famous son was that S. Carlo born at Arona ...
Edward Hutton. wood where the camellias grow so plentifully are quiet and delightful . Isola Madre , like Isola Bella , belongs to the Borromeo family , one of the best in Lombardy , whose most famous son was that S. Carlo born at Arona ...
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Alps altarpiece Ambrogio Ambrose Apennines Archbishop army Austrians Autharis Baptistery barbarian beautiful became Bergamo Bishop Blessed Virgin Boii Borgognone Brera Brescia building built Canossa Castello Castiglione Cathedral Certosa chapel choir Christ church Cisalpine Gaul Correggio Crema Cremona crossed delightful Duomo Duomo of Milan Emperor Empire Europe façade famous Farnese fifteenth century Francesco Sforza frescoes Galeazzo Gallery Giovanni Giulio Campi Gotard Gothic Hannibal Insubres Italian Italy King Lago lake later Latin Leonardo Lodi Lombardy Lorenzo lovely Madonna and Child Maggiore Mantua Maria master Milan Milanese miles Modena monastery Monte Monza mountains nave noble painted painter palace Palazzo Parma pass Pavia perhaps pestilence Piacenza Piazza picture Pietà plain Pope Porta Portrait pupil Reggio remains Renaissance road Rocke Roman Romanino Rome ruin Saints seems shrine side stands Theodolinda thing to-day tomb tower town transept vast Venetian Venice Verona Villa Visconti
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Page 199 - AVE ATQUE VALE.' Row us out from Desenzano, to your Sirmione row ! So they row'd, and there we landed — ' O venusta Sirmio ! ' There to me thro' all the groves of olive in the summer glow, There beneath the Roman ruin where the purple flowers grow, Came that
Page 303 - Thou shalt tread upon the lion and the adder, the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
Page 206 - Aonio rediens deducam vertice Musas; primus Idumaeas referam tibi, Mantua, palmas, et viridi in campo templum de marmore ponam propter aquam, tardis ingens ubi flexibus errat Mincius et tenera praetexit harundine ripas.
Page 110 - He therefore discoursed with him at some length respecting art, and made it perfectly manifest to his comprehension, that men of genius are sometimes producing most when they seem to be labouring least, their minds being occupied in the elucidation of their ideas, and in the completion of those conceptions to which they afterwards give form and expression with the hand.
Page 198 - Sirmio, insularumque ocelle, quascumque in liquentibus stagnis marique vasto fert uterque Neptunus, quam te libenter quamque laetus inviso, vix mi ipse credens Thyniam atque Bithynos liquisse campos et videre te in tuto...
Page 110 - Monastery was excessively importunate in pressing Leonardo to complete the picture; he could in no way comprehend wherefore the artist should sometimes remain half a day together absorbed in thought before his work, without making any progress that he could see; this seemed to him a strange waste of time, and he would fain have had him work away as he could make the men do who were digging in his garden, never laying the pencil out of his hand.
Page 109 - For the Dominican monks of Santa Maria delle Grazie at Milan, he also painted a Last Supper, which is a most beautiful and admirable work; to the heads of the Apostles in this picture the master gave so much beauty and majesty that he was constrained to leave that of Christ unfinished, being convinced that he could not impart to it the divinity which should appertain to and distinguish an image of the Redeemer.
Page 111 - ... however, he would make search, and after all — if he could find no better, he need never be at any great loss, for there would always be the head of that troublesome and impertinent Prior. This made the Duke laugh with all his heart, he declared Leonardo to be completely in the right, and the poor Prior, utterly confounded, went away to drive on the digging in his garden, and left Leonardo in peace...
Page 110 - ... strange waste of time, and he would fain have had him work away as he could make the men do who were digging in his garden, never laying the pencil out of his hand. Not content with seeking to hasten Leonardo, the Prior even complained to the Duke, and tormented him to such a degree that the latter was at length compelled to send for Leonardo, whom he courteously entreated to let the work be finished, assuring him nevertheless that he did so because compelled by the importunities of the Prior.
Page 256 - ... have felt his way towards the paragraph, working out, in those prefaces for which he had no French exemplar, a somewhat involved style. He is fond of relative sentences, and sometimes piles them on the top of each other without finishing the earlier ones: "Which thing when Gotard had advertised of and that he bare so away the bread, but he wist not to whom ne whither, whereof he marvelled and so did all his household." He mixes direct and indirect speech; he uses the redundant which: "I fynde...