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Alsium amphora ancient antiquity arch archaic beautiful beneath Bieda blocks Bomarzo bridge bronze Bull Cære called Canina Capena Castel d'Asso Cervetri chamber CHAP chaplets character Charun Chiusi Ciminian Civita Castellana cliffs Cluver colour Corchiano Corneto couch decorated Dion Dionysius Egyptian emplecton Etruria Etrus Etruscan cities Etruscan tombs Etrusk excavations extant façades Falerii Falisci Fálleri feet figures fragments gate Gell glen Greek Grotta ground head height hewn hollowed inscriptions Inst Italy kylix Livy masonry mentioned Micali miles monuments mouldings Müller Museum necropolis neighbourhood Nepi Nibby niches Norchia origin Orioli painted tombs painted vases pediment Pelasgic plain Plin Pliny pottery probably ravine relief remains represented road rock Roman Rome ruins sarcophagi scene seems sepulchres side similar Soracte spot stands Strabo style Sutri Sutrium Tarquinii temple Tiber tion town traces tufo tumulus Veii Vetralla Via Cassia Viterbo Vulci walls woodcut
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Page 82 - Hues which have words, and speak to ye of heaven, Floats o'er this vast and wondrous monument, And shadows forth its glory. There is given Unto the things of earth, which Time hath bent, A spirit's feeling, and where he hath leant His hand, but broke his scythe, there is a power And magic in the ruined battlement, For which the palace of the present hour Must yield its pomp, and wait till ages are its dower.
Page 301 - What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth ? What mad pursuit ? What struggle to escape ? What pipes and timbrels ? What wild ecstasy...
Page 447 - Once more we look, and all is still as night, All desolate ! Groves, temples, palaces, Swept from the sight ; and nothing visible, Amid the sulphurous vapours that exhale As from a land accurst, save here and there An empty tomb, a fragment like the limb Of some dismembered giant.
Page 117 - It was, I ween, a lovely spot of ground ; And there a season atween June and May, Half...
Page 2 - ... masses, and rests with delight on La Leonessa and other well-known giants of the Sabine range, all capt with snow. Oh, the beauty of that range ! From whatever part of the Campagna you view it, it presents those long, sweeping outlines, those grand, towering crests — not of Alpine abruptness, but consistently with the character of the land, preserving, even when soaring highest, the true Italian dignity and repose — the otiutn cum dignitate of Nature.
Page 54 - On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays, When the clear, cold eve's declining, He sees the round towers of other days, In the wave beneath him shining! Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the days that are over, Thus, sighing, look through the waves of time For the long-faded glories they cover!
Page 50 - Making the circuit of Castel Giubileo, you are led round till you meet the road, where it issues from the hollow at the northern angle of the city. Besides the tombs which are found on both sides of the southern promontory of the city, there is a cave, running far into the rock, and branching off into several chambers and passages.
Page 237 - Lotos and lilies : and a wind arose, And overhead the wandering ivy and vine, This way and that, in many a wild festoon Ran riot, garlanding the gnarled boughs With bunch and berry and flower thro
Page 475 - KING Death was a rare old fellow ! He sat where no sun could shine ; And he lifted his hand so yellow, And poured out his coal-black wine. Hurrah ! for the coal-black wine...
Page 268 - Nearer the door stood a four-wheeled car, which, from its size and form, seemed to have borne the bier to the sepulchre. And just within the entrance stood, on iron tripods, a couple of cauldrons, with a number of curious handles terminating in griffons' heads, together with a singular vessel, — a pair of bell-shaped vases, united by a couple of spheres.