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... palace , striking the central Clock - dome and its sister pavilions of Flora and Marsan with harmless lightning , are evermore pausing upon their way to caress affec- tionately those venerable groves whose regal brows so gracefully ...
... palace , striking the central Clock - dome and its sister pavilions of Flora and Marsan with harmless lightning , are evermore pausing upon their way to caress affec- tionately those venerable groves whose regal brows so gracefully ...
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... Palace of the Popes , whose guest was Petrarch the Lau- reate , and whose prisoner , Rienzi , the Tribune of Rome . High and inscrutable with a cruel domi- neering aspect , scowling over the fantastic intri- cacies of its monastic town ...
... Palace of the Popes , whose guest was Petrarch the Lau- reate , and whose prisoner , Rienzi , the Tribune of Rome . High and inscrutable with a cruel domi- neering aspect , scowling over the fantastic intri- cacies of its monastic town ...
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... a solitary bugle from the palace , or the sonorous strokes from the fine old clock- tower of the Hotel de Ville , or the Cathedral Cam- panile , enhanced rather than interrupted the AVIGNON . 15 silence . A rich horizon of amber.
... a solitary bugle from the palace , or the sonorous strokes from the fine old clock- tower of the Hotel de Ville , or the Cathedral Cam- panile , enhanced rather than interrupted the AVIGNON . 15 silence . A rich horizon of amber.
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... palace emulate each other in those embellishments of which the Piazza is entirely composed . The Monte Pincio , with its balustraded ascents , and the Villa Medici , with its evergreen groves , look down upon it on one side , and you ...
... palace emulate each other in those embellishments of which the Piazza is entirely composed . The Monte Pincio , with its balustraded ascents , and the Villa Medici , with its evergreen groves , look down upon it on one side , and you ...
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... palace , the Doria Pamfili , whose freakish magnificence seems to gather an alien gloom from the lofty and solid solemnity of the strada they adorn . Shelley must have had this palace in his eye , and the whirlwind of his imagination ...
... palace , the Doria Pamfili , whose freakish magnificence seems to gather an alien gloom from the lofty and solid solemnity of the strada they adorn . Shelley must have had this palace in his eye , and the whirlwind of his imagination ...
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Page 168 - And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life. In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even ! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
Page 250 - A milk-white Hind,* immortal and unchanged, Fed on the lawns, and in the forest ranged ; Without unspotted, innocent within, She fear'd no danger, for she knew no sin.
Page 287 - Walk about Zion, and go round about her : Tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, Consider her palaces ; That ye may tell it to the generation following : For this God is our God for ever and ever : He will be our guide even unto death.
Page 248 - Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball, The sword, the mace, the crown imperial The intertissued robe of gold and pearl, The farced title running 'fore the king, The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp That beats upon the high shore of this world...
Page 66 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music!
Page 312 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 201 - Beware !" her vest of gold Broidered with flowers and clasped from head to foot, An emerald stone in every golden clasp, And on her brow, fairer than alabaster, A coronet of pearls. But then her face ! So lovely, yet so arch, so full of mirth, The overflowings of an innocent heart : It haunts me still, though many a year has fled, Like some wild melody.
Page 20 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Page 298 - And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. When o'er the green undeluged earth, Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God.
Page 89 - When the oldest cask is opened, And the largest lamp is lit; When the chestnuts glow in the embers, And the kid turns on the spit...