Two journeys through Italy and Switzerland

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119 페이지 - The cupola is glorious. Viewed in its design, its altitude, or even its decoration; viewed either as a whole or as a part, it enchants the eye, it satisfies the taste, it expands the soul. The very air seems to eat up all that is harsh or colossal, and leaves us nothing but the sublime to feast on:—a sublime peculiar as the genius of the immortal architect, and comprehensible only on the spot.
313 페이지 - I slept the next night well, was free and merry ; I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips : He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all.
67 페이지 - In Santa Croce's holy precincts lie Ashes which make it holier, dust which is Even in itself an immortality, Though there were nothing save the past, and this The particle of those sublimities Which have relapsed to chaos : — here repose Angelo's, Alfieri's bones, and his, The starry Galileo, with his woes ; Here Machiavelli's earth return'd to whence it rose.
150 페이지 - Where the car climbed the Capitol; far and wide Temple and tower went down, nor left a site : — Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say,
291 페이지 - His lithe proboscis ; close the serpent sly Insinuating wove with Gordian twine His braided train, and of his fatal guile Gave proof unheeded ; others on the grass 350 Couch'd, and now fill'd with pasture gazing sat, Or bedward ruminating : for the sun Declin'd was hasting now with prone career To th...
162 페이지 - Eustace's * rich and forcible description — " Beauty in the sex, is blended in Italy with intelligence, with benignity, animation of feature, dignity of gesture, a language all music, quickness of remark, a fine tinge of religion, — every female attraction is theirs, except, perhaps, the best. But, alas! can modesty be expected in a state where celibacy sits enthroned, and fills every post of authority and instruction ? Must not the interest, the animal wants of the governors, discourage fidelity...
162 페이지 - When dazzled with the splendour of the Roman clergy, through all their gradation of colour, grey, black, purple, scarlet, up to the sovereign white ; when we have admired their palaces, their liveries, their carriages wheeled out in rows to be admired; let us then reverse the medal, and view the exhaustion which this gross plethory of clerical wealth leaves below it. Let us survey all the forms of misery, the sickness, the sores, the deformity, the hunger, which infest the streets, where every beggar...
162 페이지 - ... a defect. Animation of feature , dignity of gesture , a language all music , quickness of remark , a fine tinge of religion , every female attraction is theirs , except perhaps the best. But alas ! can modesty be expected in a state where celibacy sits enthroned , and fills every...
260 페이지 - Nothing indeed can be a greater instance of the natural love that mankind has for liberty, and of their aversion to arbitrary government, than such a savage mountain covered with people, and the Campagna of Rome almost destitute of inhabitants.
160 페이지 - Men in the mass are what governments make them , and who can now calculate the powers of the present race i'f differently directed ? they inherit at least one characteristic of their republican ancestors , that local pride which Rome has always excited in its natives.

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