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, Volume 2John Murray, 1826 - Rome (Italy) |
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Page iii - 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.
Page 348 - INTERR'D beneath this marble stone Lie sauntering Jack and idle Joan. While rolling threescore years and one Did round this globe their courses run ; If human things went ill or well; If changing empires rose or fell; The morning past, the evening came, And found this couple still the same.
Page 266 - Day, for 7,000 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 10,000, and for 3,000 years, and at a very reasonable rate. But it is...
Page 266 - But it is in vain to particularize — for the greater part of the principal churches in Rome and the neighbourhood, are spiritual shops for the sale of the same commodity.
Page 269 - Those that have interest with the pope," says another modern traveller, " may obtain an absolution in full from his holiness for all the sins they have ever committed, or may choose to commit. I have seen one of these edifying documents, signed by the present pope to a friend of mine. It was most unequivocally worded.
Page 181 - Of mouldering urns (their ashes blown away, Dust of the mighty) the same story tell ; And at its base, from whence the serpent glides Down the green desert street, yon hoary monk Laments the same, the vision as he views, The solitary, silent, solemn scene, Where Caesars, heroes, peasants, hermits lie, 340 Blended in dust together; where the slave Rests from his labours; where th' insulting proud Resigns his power; the miser drops his hoard; Where human folly sleeps.
Page 234 - ... you cannot fail to see various sinners creeping up it on their knees, repeating on every step a Paternoster and an Ave Maria.
Page 268 - ... twenty, and even thirty thousands of years, that may be bought, at no exorbitant rate, in many of the churches ; * so that it is amazing what a vast quantity of treasure may be amassed in the other world with very little industry in this, by those who are avaricious of this spiritual wealth, into which, indeed, the dross or riches of this world may be converted, with the happiest facility imaginable. "We are told, that 'it is easier for a camel to enter into thoeye of a needle, than a rich man...
Page 232 - Christ, sprinkled with his blood, some drops of his blood in a bottle, some of the water which flowed out of the wound in his side, some of the sponge...
Page 179 - ... in, enough remains to prove it to have been of a conical shape, the walls converging internally. The sepulchral vault was below the present level of the soil ; nor was it till the time of Paul III. that it was opened, when the sarcophagus, now in the Farnese Palace, was found in it. A golden urn, containing the ashes, is said to have been discovered at the same time ; but this has disappeared. The square base of this tower has long since been stripped of its stone covering.