Italy, Volume 1

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J. Duncan, 1831
 

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Halaman 112 - Ye ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain— Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon ? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows ? Who, with living flowers, Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet ?— God ! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo,...
Halaman 112 - Ye Ice-falls ! ye that from the Mountain's brow Adown enormous Ravines slope amain— Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty Voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless Torrents! silent Cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full Moon? Who bade the Sun Clothe you with Rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands...
Halaman 218 - ... and other precious stones. The pictures and statues are innumerable. To this Palace belong three gardens, the first whereof is beautified with a terrace, supported by pillars of marble ; there is a fountaine of eagles, and one of Neptune with other Sea-gods, all of the purest white marble ; they stand in a most ample basine of the same stone.
Halaman 210 - I write only from recollection, and one seldom recollects things so pompous and so uniform as the effigies of rich men. At the Albergo de Poveri* is a sculpture of a higher order, a dead Christ in alto relievo, by Michael Angelo. The life and death which he has thrown into this little thing, the breathing tenderness of the Virgin, and the heavenly composure of the corpse, appeared to me beauties foreign to the tremendous genius of the artist.
Halaman 20 - There can be little doubt that the catastrophe was caused by the gradual erosion of the soft strata, which undermined the mass of limestone above, and projected it into the plain. It is also probable, that the part which fell, had for some time been nearly detached from the mountain, by a shrinking of the southern side, as there is at present a rent at this end, upwards of 2000 feet deep, which seems to have cat off a large section from the eastern end, that now " Hangs in doubtful ruins round its...
Halaman 24 - A particular kind of hepatic gas, combined with sulphurous acid gas, about one-third the volume of water. Some observations on the geological position of these springs will be given in Chapter IX. i 4 Till the year 1772 the sulphur bath was merely a large cave, cut in the rock, and divided by a wall into two apartments, one for the men, the other for the women, with an iron balustrade in front. At that period the king of Sardinia caused the present handsome building to be erected and fitted up, expressly...
Halaman 312 - The water, raised by the impulse which it receives from the wind, rises to these fissures, and trickles down through the crevices that communicate with the fountain below, and gradually fills it. In stormy weather the water is impelled with greater violence, and flows in greater quantities, till it is nearly exhausted, or, at least, reduced too low to be raised again to the fissures. Hence, on such occasions the fountain fills with rapidity first, and then dries up, or rather, remains low till the...
Halaman 351 - As to when and by whom the mischief was done, a woman who has lived next door for the last seventeen years, told me, that she had heard of soldiers firing at the picture before her time ; that a soldier of the sixth regiment of French hussars had told her, that he himself with others had done so, not knowing what it was, when guarding prisoners confined in the hall ; and that these prisoners, men of all nations, threw stones and brickbats against it by way of amusement. When Bonaparte came to Milan,...
Halaman 289 - ... more to his zeal for Catholicism than to his piety, yet his talents and the decorum of his private character rendered him by far the most formidable adversary who had yet appeared against the protestant interest. It was the great object of his ambition, from an early period of life, to oppose an effectual barrier to the progress of heresy, and to repair and prop the fabric of popery which he saw tottering on its base.
Halaman 350 - The convent was suppressed ; the hall was turned into a store-room of artillery ; and the picture was used as a target for the soldiers to fire at ! The heads were their favourite marks, and that of our Saviour in preference to the others.

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