Walks in Rome, Volume 1W. Isbister, 1874 - Rome (Italy) |
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Page 13
... marble wilderness ? Rise , with thy yellow waves , and mantle her distress ! " The impressiveness of an arrival at the Eternal City was formerly enhanced by the solemn singularity of the country through which it was slowly approached ...
... marble wilderness ? Rise , with thy yellow waves , and mantle her distress ! " The impressiveness of an arrival at the Eternal City was formerly enhanced by the solemn singularity of the country through which it was slowly approached ...
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... marbles and gilded ceilings and ill - suited monuments , which arouses your sympathy ; but the long investigation of their precious fragments of ancient cloister , and sculptured fountain , —of mouldering fresco , and medieval tomb ...
... marbles and gilded ceilings and ill - suited monuments , which arouses your sympathy ; but the long investigation of their precious fragments of ancient cloister , and sculptured fountain , —of mouldering fresco , and medieval tomb ...
Page 38
... marble , surrounded by a balustrade of Thasos marble . ” — Suetonius . Church tradition tells that from the tomb of Nero after- wards grew a gigantic walnut - tree , which became the resort of innumerable crows , -so numerous as to ...
... marble , surrounded by a balustrade of Thasos marble . ” — Suetonius . Church tradition tells that from the tomb of Nero after- wards grew a gigantic walnut - tree , which became the resort of innumerable crows , -so numerous as to ...
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... marble by Lorenzetto . The same artist sculptured the figure of Elijah , —those of Daniel and Habakkuk being by Bernini . The altarpiece , repre- senting the Nativity of the Virgin , is a fine work of Sebastian del Piombo . On the pier ...
... marble by Lorenzetto . The same artist sculptured the figure of Elijah , —those of Daniel and Habakkuk being by Bernini . The altarpiece , repre- senting the Nativity of the Virgin , is a fine work of Sebastian del Piombo . On the pier ...
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... marble winding - sheet , " Neque hic mortuus . ” Martin Luther " often spoke of death as the Christian's true birth , and this life as but a growing into the chrysalis - shell in which the spirit lives till its being is developed , and ...
... marble winding - sheet , " Neque hic mortuus . ” Martin Luther " often spoke of death as the Christian's true birth , and this life as but a growing into the chrysalis - shell in which the spirit lives till its being is developed , and ...
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