The Tiber and Its TributariesLongmans, Green, and Company, 1877 - 221 pàgines |
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Pàgina vii
... Rome appear to consider the works of God as unworthy of mention by the side of those of the great painters and sculptors of Italy . An object in Nature obtains but a cursory notice , while the vulgar errors , with regard to Natural ...
... Rome appear to consider the works of God as unworthy of mention by the side of those of the great painters and sculptors of Italy . An object in Nature obtains but a cursory notice , while the vulgar errors , with regard to Natural ...
Pàgina ix
... Rome , while every fragment of a brick wall has been made the subject of a learned treatise , and its plan and purpose illustrated by diagrams and photographs , the Tiber , the river in which the Romans took such pride , has been passed ...
... Rome , while every fragment of a brick wall has been made the subject of a learned treatise , and its plan and purpose illustrated by diagrams and photographs , the Tiber , the river in which the Romans took such pride , has been passed ...
Pàgina x
... I may be allowed to speak of the Tiber as laden with associa- tions , as bearing with it to the the heart of Rome " Childe Harold . " - Canto IV . 81 . whatever of historic or poetic interest it has gathered along Χ INTRODUCTION .
... I may be allowed to speak of the Tiber as laden with associa- tions , as bearing with it to the the heart of Rome " Childe Harold . " - Canto IV . 81 . whatever of historic or poetic interest it has gathered along Χ INTRODUCTION .
Pàgina xiii
... Rome as little is known as of the river on which Yarkand is situated . I have known persons long resident in Rome who fancied that the Nera , the principal tributary of the Tiber , flowed into the Adriatic , making its way by some ...
... Rome as little is known as of the river on which Yarkand is situated . I have known persons long resident in Rome who fancied that the Nera , the principal tributary of the Tiber , flowed into the Adriatic , making its way by some ...
Pàgina xiv
... Rome , exceeds in length the Thames from its source to Gravesend . Mr. Burn and others would say , perhaps , that it was no part of their plan to describe the Tiber , and that the river itself is so insignificant that they may be ...
... Rome , exceeds in length the Thames from its source to Gravesend . Mr. Burn and others would say , perhaps , that it was no part of their plan to describe the Tiber , and that the river itself is so insignificant that they may be ...
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