Rome, in the Nineteenth Century: Containing a Complete Account of the Ruins of the Ancient City, the Remains of the Middle Ages, and the Monuments of Modern Times, 1권

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H.G. Bohn, 1860
 

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vi 페이지 - be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose
vi 페이지 - by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose
251 페이지 - they leaped upon the altar and cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
416 페이지 - If every true-born Italian, man, woman, and child, within the Pope's dominions, does not confess and receive the communion at least once a-year, before Easter, his name is posted up in the parish church; if he still refrain, he is exhorted, entreated, and otherwise tormented; and if he persist in his contumacy, he is
300 페이지 - annually slaughtered in the great cities of the Empire; and the month of December, more peculiarly devoted to the combats of gladiators, still exhibited to the eyes of the Roman people a grateful
153 페이지 - On the Tarpeian rock, the citadel Of great and glorious Rome, Queen of the Earth, So far renown'd, and with the spoils enriched Of nations.
71 페이지 - with the rarest and richest marbles, and adorned with every art of sculpture -and of taste, and caught through the lofty arches opening views of chapels, and tombs, and altars of surpassing splendour, I felt that it was, indeed, unparalleled in beauty, in magnitude, and magnificence, and one of the noblest and most wonderful of the works of man.
420 페이지 - on the festa of that saint; at Santa Bibiana, on All Souls' Day, for 7000 years; at a church near the Basilica of St. Paul, and at another on the Quirinal Hill, the names of both of which I have unluckily forgotten, for
72 페이지 - mortal remains of the Apostle repose. On every side the Latin cross opened upon us in lengthening beauty, and decked in various splendour, which the labour of ages, the wealth of kingdoms, the spoils of ancient times, and the proudest inventions of modern magnificence, have combined to furnish.
55 페이지 - really and truly believes in it all. She knelt before the saint in silent devotion first, and then gave me a bit of cord, the use of which perplexed me much; and while I was turning it round and round in my fingers, and wondering what she

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