Art and Nature Under an Italian Sky |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 9
Page
... HERCULANEUM , 117 CASTELLAMARE AND SORRENTO , 119 LAGO D'AGNANO AND THE SOLFATARA , 125 PÆSTUM , 132 AMALFI , 138 · SECOND ASCENT OF VESUVIUS , 142 ROME , 151 THE VATICAN STATUARY BY TORCHLIGHT , . • 161 ST . PETER'S , THE PROTESTANT ...
... HERCULANEUM , 117 CASTELLAMARE AND SORRENTO , 119 LAGO D'AGNANO AND THE SOLFATARA , 125 PÆSTUM , 132 AMALFI , 138 · SECOND ASCENT OF VESUVIUS , 142 ROME , 151 THE VATICAN STATUARY BY TORCHLIGHT , . • 161 ST . PETER'S , THE PROTESTANT ...
Page 91
... reached a sudden turn , and walking on a few yards , an arched gateway stood before us . It was the " Gate of Herculaneum " -the entrance to the " Street of the Tombs ! " the Dead ! UNDER AN ITALIAN SKY . 91 VISIT TO POMPEII,
... reached a sudden turn , and walking on a few yards , an arched gateway stood before us . It was the " Gate of Herculaneum " -the entrance to the " Street of the Tombs ! " the Dead ! UNDER AN ITALIAN SKY . 91 VISIT TO POMPEII,
Page 101
... Herculaneum , that city over whose gor- geous temples , gay palaces , and once busy streets , the dread mountain poured death and ruin in a single night . And now , though eighteen hundred years have passed away , its iron grasp still ...
... Herculaneum , that city over whose gor- geous temples , gay palaces , and once busy streets , the dread mountain poured death and ruin in a single night . And now , though eighteen hundred years have passed away , its iron grasp still ...
Page 111
... Herculaneum - Torre del Grecco - Vesuvius rising with its graceful sweep from the rich plains on either side - white towns and villages clustering round its base - Naples , with its castles , glittering streets , and gay villas ...
... Herculaneum - Torre del Grecco - Vesuvius rising with its graceful sweep from the rich plains on either side - white towns and villages clustering round its base - Naples , with its castles , glittering streets , and gay villas ...
Page 116
... grey light at the far end , across which the diminutive figures of human beings , passing and repassing , seemed like objects seen through an inverted telescope . HERCULANEUM . H AVING , through the kindness of Mr. 116 ART AND NATURE.
... grey light at the far end , across which the diminutive figures of human beings , passing and repassing , seemed like objects seen through an inverted telescope . HERCULANEUM . H AVING , through the kindness of Mr. 116 ART AND NATURE.
Other editions - View all
Art and Nature Under an Italian Sky (Classic Reprint) Margaret Juliana Maria Dunbar No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
admire amid arches ascent beautiful beneath blue Bracciano breath bright carriage castle cathedral chapel Church Colonna Palace colouring comfortable crater dark deep delicious distance Domenichino DUOMO OF MILAN effect entered exquisite feeling feet Ferdinando figures flowers gallery Genoa glowing graceful Guercino Herculaneum horses hour idea interest Italian Italy lake lava leaving light LONDON LIFE ASSURANCE look Lord loveliness lovely magnificent marble morning mountain Naples Narni noble once ornaments ourselves painting palaces passed peculiar Piazza San Marco picture picturesque pillars plain Pompeii Pozzuoli reached Rhine rich road rocks Rome round ruins scarcely scene seemed seen shew side soft Solfatara spot stands steps stone stood strange sweet Temple THOMAS CHALMERS THOMAS CONSTABLE thought Titian tomb towers town trees vast village walked walls whilst whole wild wind wonderful wood
Popular passages
Page 27 - Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Page 136 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 176 - And gray walls moulder round, on which dull Time Feeds, like slow fire upon a hoary brand ; And one keen pyramid with wedge sublime, Pavilioning the dust of him who planned This refuge for his memory, doth stand Like flame transformed to marble ; and beneath A field is spread, on which a newer band Have pitched in Heaven's smile their camp of death, Welcoming him we lose with scarce extinguished breath.
Page 34 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 176 - And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness, Pass, till the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access, Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead A light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread.
Page 248 - The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon many waters.
Page 291 - There did he stand, erect, invincible, Though wan his cheeks, and wet with many tears, For in his prayers he had been weeping much; And now the pilgrims and the people wept With admiration, saying in their hearts, " Surely those aged limbs have need of rest!
Page 174 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Page 218 - And when all beheld Him, where he lay, how changed from yesterday, Him in that hour cut off, and at his head His last great work ;