Walks in Rome, Volume 1G. Allen, 1900 - Rome (Italy) |
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... hills , every one of which , from its summit , gave a more swelling and majestic outline to what so far constituted " Roma , " that is , the great cupola , not of the church , but of the city , its only discernible part , cutting , like ...
... hills , every one of which , from its summit , gave a more swelling and majestic outline to what so far constituted " Roma , " that is , the great cupola , not of the church , but of the city , its only discernible part , cutting , like ...
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... hills , I think , in the remote distance , and just beneath us , on the left , Soracte , an outlier of the Apennines , which has got to the right bank of the Tiber , and stands out by itself most magnificently . Close under us , in ...
... hills , I think , in the remote distance , and just beneath us , on the left , Soracte , an outlier of the Apennines , which has got to the right bank of the Tiber , and stands out by itself most magnificently . Close under us , in ...
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Augustus John Cuthbert Hare. • Full in front rose the Alban hills , the white villas on their sides distinctly visible , even at that distance , which was more than thirty miles . On the left were the Apennines , and Tivoli was ...
Augustus John Cuthbert Hare. • Full in front rose the Alban hills , the white villas on their sides distinctly visible , even at that distance , which was more than thirty miles . On the left were the Apennines , and Tivoli was ...
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... hills the Coelian , the Aventine , and part of the Esquiline - are a constant prey to fever . The malaria , however , flies before a crowd of human life , and the Ghetto , teeming with inhabitants , was always perfectly free from it ...
... hills the Coelian , the Aventine , and part of the Esquiline - are a constant prey to fever . The malaria , however , flies before a crowd of human life , and the Ghetto , teeming with inhabitants , was always perfectly free from it ...
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... Hills . Italy was ready , within generous limits , to be paymaster . Italians longed for Rome as Rome was . The Roman Town Council had be- stowed upon them for their royal capital a paltry and spurious copy of Paris boulevards . Nothing ...
... Hills . Italy was ready , within generous limits , to be paymaster . Italians longed for Rome as Rome was . The Roman Town Council had be- stowed upon them for their royal capital a paltry and spurious copy of Paris boulevards . Nothing ...
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adorned altar Ampère ancient Ancient Rome Antoninus Pius Ara-Coeli arch Arch of Titus Augustus avait Aventine bas-reliefs basilica Basilica Julia beautiful Borghese bronze building built buried Caesar Caligula called Capitol Capitoline Cardinal Catacombs Cenci century chapel Christ Christian church Claudius Clement Coliseum Colonna columns Commodus Constantine Corso death Domitian emperor entrance erected famous figure Forum fountain Francesca frescoes galleries garden Gregory Hadrian hill Hist honour inscription Jews Julia Julius Julius Caesar Jupiter Lateran magnificent marble Maria martyrs monument mosaic murder Nero occupied Ovid painted palace Palatine Palazzo Paul Peter Piazza di Spagna picture Pietro Pietro da Cortona Pius Pope Porta portico portrait qu'il Quirinal rebuilt remains represented Roma Roman Rome Romulus rooms rostra ruins Sacra sacred saint sculptured senate Septimius Severus Severus side staircase statue street temple Tiberius Titus tomb Trajan tribune Vespasian Vesta Via Appia Via Sacra Villa Virgin walls
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Page 185 - How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! how is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary...
Page 107 - For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
Page 57 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Page 57 - And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging : to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.
Page 4 - Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, — Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within...
Page 157 - Midst the chief relics of almighty Rome ; The trees which grew along the broken arches Waved dark in the blue midnight, and the stars Shone through the rents of ruin ; from afar The watchdog bay'd beyond the Tiber ; and More near from out the Caesars...
Page 59 - Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive...
Page 291 - There is a stern round tower of other days, Firm as a fortress, with its fence of stone. Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland of eternity, where wave The green leaves over all by time o'erthrown: What was this tower of strength? within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so hid ?— A woman's grave.* c.
Page 253 - Who have for my life laid down their own necks : unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
Page 173 - Back darted Spurius Lartius; Herminius darted back: And, as they passed, beneath their feet They felt the timbers crack. But when they turned their faces, And on the farther shore Saw brave Horatius stand alone, They would have crossed once more.