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Alessandria Alps amongst ancient Andrea Apennines arches architecture artist Austrian bas-reliefs beautiful Bologna Brescia building built called Caracci Carlo castle cathedral celebrated centre century centy chapel choir church columns contains cross curious decorated Doge Duke Duomo edifice Emanuele erected façade Ferrara formed France Francesco French frescoes gallery Genoa Genoese Giovanni Gothic Guercino high altar hills Hôtel Inhab inscription Italian Italy King lake Lombard Madonna Maggiore Mantua marble Maria ment Milan Monte monument Napoleon nave Nice Novara Oneglia ornaments Padua paintings palace Palazzo Paolo Veronese Parma passing Pavia Piacenza Piazza picture Piedmontese Pietro Ponte Porta portrait principal remarkable representing road Roman ROUTE sacristy Saints Savona Savoy sculpture side specimens Spezia Stat statue Strada style Ticino Tintoretto tion Titian tomb towers town transept traveller Turin valley Venetian Venice Vercelli Verona Veronese village Virgin and Child walls
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Page 564 - The shrill cicalas, people of the pine, Making their summer lives one ceaseless song, Were the sole echoes, save my steed's and mine, And vesper bells' that rose the boughs along...
Page 363 - There is a glorious city in the sea; The sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing; and the salt seaweed Clings to the marble of her palaces. No track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates! The path lies o'er the sea, Invisible: and from the land we went, As to a floating city — steering in, And gliding up her streets, as in a dream...
Page 55 - Guineas each, with every requisite to assist those commencing the study of this interesting science, a knowledge of which affords so much pleasure to the traveller in all parts of the world. * A collection for Five Guineas which will illustrate the recent works on Geology by Ansted, Buckland.
Page 259 - I have been these six weeks, and still am, at my dairy-house, which joins to my garden. I believe I have already told you it is a long mile from the castle, which is situate in the midst of a very large village, once a considerable town, part of the walls still remaining, and has not vacant, ground enough about it to make a garden, which is my greatest amusement, it being now troublesome to walk, or even go in the chaise till the evening. I have fitted up in this farm-house a room for myself, that...
Page 31 - Guide to the Oberland and all Switzerland, excepting the Neighbourhood of Monte Rosa and the Great St. Bernard ; with Lombardy and the adjoining portion of Tyrol.
Page 447 - Parmegiano, when in his more mature age he painted the Moses, had so completely supplied his first defects, that we are here at a loss which to admire most, the correctness of drawing, or the grandeur of the conception.
Page 545 - The splendid donation was granted in supreme and absolute dominion, and the world beheld, for the first time, a Christian bishop invested with the prerogatives of a temporal prince : the choice of magistrates, the exercise of justice, the imposition of taxes, and the wealth of the palace of Ravenna.
Page 55 - He can also supply Elementary Collections of Minerals, Rocks, and Fossils, on the following terms: — 100 Small Specimens, in cabinet, with three trays £2 2 0 *200 Specimens, larger, in cabinet, with five trays 550 300 Specimens, larger, in cabinet, with eight drawers 10 10 0 400 Specimens, larger, in cabinet, with twelve drawers .... 21 О О More extensive Collections, to illustrate Geology, at 50 to 100 Guineas each, with every...
Page 472 - Melancholy as the city looks now, every lover of Italian poetry must view with affection the retreat of an Ariosto, a Tasso, a Guarini. Such is the ascent of wealth over genius, that one or two princes could create an Athens in the midst of this Boeotia. The little courts of Ferrara and Urbino seemed to emulate those of Alexandria and Pergamos, contending for pre-eminence only in literature and elegance...
Page 563 - raising our eyes to heaven, or directing them to the earth, can we doubt of the existence of God ? — or how, turning them to what is within us, can we doubt that there is something...