Observations, Moral, Literary, and Antiquarian: Made During a Tour Through the Pyrennees, South of France, Switzerland, the Whole of Italy, and the Netherlands, in the Years 1814 and 1815, Volume 1T. Davison, 1818 - Europe |
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Page 60 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Page 47 - Aslant the hollow channel rapid darts ; And falling fast from gradual slope to slope, With wild infracted course, and lessened roar, It gains a safer bed, and steals at last Along the mazes of the quiet vale.
Page 266 - And show th' immortal labours in my verse, Where from the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heavenly figures from his pencil flow, So warm with life his blended colours glow. From theme to theme with secret pleasure...
Page 129 - The mountain-shadows on her breast Were neither broken nor at rest ; In bright uncertainty they lie, Like future joys to Fancy's eye.
Page 262 - Which, as in mirrors, showed the woods; Of lofty trees, with sacred shades And perspectives of pleasant glades, Where nymphs of brightest form appear, And shaggy satyrs standing near, Which them at once admire and fear. The ruins too of some majestic piece. Boasting the power of ancient Rome or Greece, Whose statues, friezes, columns, broken lie, And, though defaced, the wonder of the eye: What nature, art, bold fiction, e'er durst frame.
Page 298 - Yet sung so often in poetic lays, With scorn the Danube and the Nile surveys ; So high the deathless muse exalts her theme ! Such was the Boyne, a poor inglorious stream, That in Hibernian vales obscurely stray'd...
Page 119 - Entre deux coteaux assez élevés est un petit vallon nord et sud au fond duquel coule une rigole entre des cailloux et des arbres. Le long de ce vallon à mi-côte sont quelques maisons éparses fort agréables pour quiconque aime un asile un peu sauvage et retiré. Après avoir essayé deux ou trois de ces maisons, nous choisîmes enfin la plus jolie, appartenant à un gentilhomme qui était au service, appelé M.
Page 351 - ... ngegno umano: li occhi sereni e le stellanti ciglia, la bella bocca angelica, di perle piena e di rose e di dolci parole che fanno altrui tremar di meraviglia, e la fronte e le chiome, eh' a vederle di state a mezzo di vincono il sole.
Page 164 - You silent steal; or sit beneath the shade Of solemn oaks, that tuft the swelling mounts Thrown graceful round by Nature's careless hand, And pensive listen to the various voice Of rural peace: the herds, the flocks, the birds, The hollow-whispering breeze, the plaint of rills, That, purling down amid the twisted roots Which creep around, their dewy murmurs shake On the sooth'd ear.
Page 233 - ... annually celebrated a festival or sham fight, of great antiquity, between the inhabitants of each side of the town, who have grotesque arms, and are habited in the most fantastic costume. In their struggles of desperation for conquest, the combatants do not lie down and die, like the warrior in Tom Thumb, but the vanquished boldly and nobly jump over the bridge into the Arno, where they refresh themselves with swimming out of the reach of their conquerors, to the admiration of the fair umpires...