The Buried Cities of Campania, Or, Pompeii and Herculaneum: Their History, Their Destruction, and Their RemainsE. Lothrop, 1869 - 282 pàgines |
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The Buried Cities of Campania: Or, Pompeii and Herculaneum, Their History ... William Henry Davenport Adams Visualització completa - 1870 |
The Buried Cities of Campania, Or, Pompeii and Herculaneum: Their History ... William Henry Davenport Adams Visualització completa - 1869 |
The Buried Cities of Campania: Or, Pompeii and Herculaneum, Their History ... William Henry Davenport Adams Visualització completa - 1868 |
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Achilles adorned altar amphitheatre ancient antiquity apodyterium arena Ariadne atrium Bacchus bas-reliefs Basilica basin bathers baths beauty Briseis bronze building buried city calidarium called Campanian centre chamber choragus colonnade colours columns combats contained court covered crowd decorated Decurions discovered Doric Duumvir edifice embellished Emperor Entertaining Knowledge entrance erected eruption excavated Faun feet figures Forum fountain fresco frigidarium gallery Gate Gell gladiatorial gladiators graceful Greek Herculaneum House impluvium inches inscription Jupiter Library of Entertaining light mosaic Mount Vesuvius Naples orchestra ornamented Oscan Overbeck painted palæstra Pansa pavement pedestal peristyle picture pilasters placed Pliny poet Pompeian Pompeii portico probably reader retiarii Roman Rome round ruins Samnite scene seats seems side silver skeletons slaves spectators square Stabiæ statue steps stone stood Street stucco supposed surrounded tablinum temple tepidarium theatre Thermæ tion tomb triclinium vases velarium venatio Venus vestibule Vesuvius villa walls white marble wine
Passatges populars
Pàgina 13 - Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty ; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams ; Climes which the sun, who sheds the brightest day Earth knows, is all unworthy to survey. Yet there the soul shall enter which hath earned That privilege by virtue.
Pàgina 127 - I'll leave you till night; you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Giiildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' ye :—Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and 'peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Pàgina 30 - ... his fears, he ordered, with an air of unconcern, the baths to be got ready ; when, after having bathed, he sat down to supper with great cheerfulness, or at least (what is equally heroic) with all the appearance of it. In the meanwhile, the eruption from Mount Vesuvius flamed out...
Pàgina 36 - ... deep snow. We returned to Misenum, where we refreshed ourselves as well as we could, and passed an anxious night between hope and fear ; though indeed with a much larger share of the latter; for the earthquake still continued, while several enthusiastic people ran up and down, heightening their own and their friends' calamities by terrible predictions.
Pàgina 83 - Swift as the radiant shapes of sleep From one whose dreams are Paradise Fly, when the fond wretch wakes to weep, And day peers forth with her blank eyes ; So fleet, so faint, so fair, The Powers of earth and air Fled from the folding star of Bethlehem : Apollo, Pan, and Love, And even Olympian Jove Grew weak, for killing Truth had glared on them ; Our hills and seas and streams Dispeopled of their dreams, Their waters turned to blood, their dew to tears, Wailed for the golden years Enter MAHMUD,...
Pàgina 33 - Being got at a convenient distance from the houses, we stood still, in the midst of a most dangerous and dreadful scene. The chariots which we had ordered to be drawn out, were so agitated backwards and forwards, though upon the most level ground, that we could not keep them steady, even by supporting them with large stones. The sea seemed to roll back upon itself, and to be driven from its banks by the convulsive motion of the earth ; it is certain at least the shore was considerably enlarged, and...
Pàgina 21 - The hedge broke in, the banner blew, The butler drank, the steward scrawled, The fire shot up, the martin flew, The parrot screamed, the peacock squalled, The maid and page renewed their strife, The palace banged, and buzzed and clackt, And all the long-pent stream of life Dashed downward in a cataract.
Pàgina 35 - At length a glimmering light appeared, which we imagined to be rather the forerunner of an approaching burst of flames, as in truth it was, than the return of day. However, the fire fell at a distance from us : then again we were immersed in thick darkness, and a heavy shower of ashes rained upon us, which we were obliged every now and then to shake off, otherwise we should have been crushed and buried in the heap.
Pàgina 47 - I STOOD within the city disinterred ; And heard the autumnal leaves like light footfalls Of spirits passing through the streets ; and heard The Mountain's slumberous voice at intervals Thrill through those roofless halls. The oracular thunder penetrating shook The listening soul in my suspended blood ; I felt that Earth out of her deep heart spoke — I felt, but heard not. Through white columns glowed The isle-sustaining ocean-flood, A plane of light between two heavens of azure.
Pàgina 28 - He was, at. that time, with the fleet under his command, at Misenum, On the 24th of August, about one in the afternoon, my mother desired him to observe a cloud, which appeared of a very unusual size and shape. He had just returned from taking the benefit of the sun, and, after bathing himself in cold water, and taking a slight repast, was retired to his study.