Through Europe with a camera. Oberammergau. Cycling through CorsicaMcClure Company, 1910 |
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Pàgina 67 - I STOOD in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
Pàgina 22 - It will not bear the brightness of the day, Which streams too much on all years, man, have reft away.
Pàgina 98 - Of mighty Shakespeare's birth, the room, we see; That, where he died, in vain to find we try; Useless the search — for all immortal he — And those, who are immortal, never die.
Pàgina 108 - We cannot but add, that of this lordly palace, where princes feasted and heroes fought, now in the bloody earnest of storm and siege, and now in the games of chivalry, where beauty dealt the prize which valour won, all is now desolate.
Pàgina 108 - ... won, all is now desolate. The bed of the lake is but a rushy swamp; and the massive ruins of the castle only serve to show what their splendour once was, and to impress on the musing visitor the transitory value of human possessions, and the happiness of those who enjoy a humble lot in virtuous contentment.
Pàgina 22 - ... etching-needle. The etchings of these masters were very clear and valuable, ie they were valuable on account of being so very clear and distinct. 1 8. Coliseo is the modern appellation of the immense amphitheatre erected by the emperor Vespasian (70 — 79 AD). Now A ruin — yet what ruin! from its mass Walls, palaces, half-cities, have been reared; Yet oft the enormous skeleton we pass, And marvel where the spoil could have appear'd. These words of Byron's (Childe Harold IV 143) contain an...
Pàgina 271 - Rendered thus more selfimportant, he talked much in the home circle concerning the greatness of classical antiquity, and wondered "who would not willingly have been stabbed, if only he could have been Caesar? One feeble ray of his glory would be an ample recompense for sudden death.
Pàgina 81 - Once a proposal was made to the villagers to take their play to England or America. "Willingly will we do so, " was the reply, "but we must take with us the whole village and its guardian — the Kofel.
Pàgina 25 - Along this once famous street where passed so many triumphal processions of the emperors, let us in turn advance until we reach a point from which we may view to advantage a portion of the Roman Forum. Here is the arch of Severus ; near it rises the lone column of the tyrant Phocas ; while the view has for a background the rear walls of the Senatorial palace on the Capitoline Hill.
Pàgina 57 - The Campanile towers above the Royal Palace on the left. St. Mark's Cathedral is partly concealed by the Palace of the Doges opposite, while in the middle distance, on the top of the clock tower, we can just make out the forms of the two metal giants who have hammered out the hours on that huge bell since Venice was mistress of the seas. Near the waters edge stand those picturesque granite columns surmounted, one by St.