Walks in Rome, Volume 1G. Allen, 1900 - Rome (Italy) |
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... painted his famous allegory of the sufferings of the Romans under the oppression of the great patrician families , thus flaunting defiance in the eyes of the Savelli , who could look down upon the picture from the windows of their ...
... painted his famous allegory of the sufferings of the Romans under the oppression of the great patrician families , thus flaunting defiance in the eyes of the Savelli , who could look down upon the picture from the windows of their ...
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... paintings by Pinturicchio . Over the altar is the Nativity ( one of the most beautiful frescoes in the city ) ; in the 1 Observe here and elsewhere the arms of the Della Rovere - an oak tree . Robur , an oak , -hence Rovere . lunettes ...
... paintings by Pinturicchio . Over the altar is the Nativity ( one of the most beautiful frescoes in the city ) ; in the 1 Observe here and elsewhere the arms of the Della Rovere - an oak tree . Robur , an oak , -hence Rovere . lunettes ...
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... painted for Giuliano della Rovere . In the centre are the Virgin and Saviour , surrounded by the Evangelists and Sibyls ; in the corners , the Fathers of the Church - Gregory , Ambrose , Jerome , and Augustine . Beneath are the tombs of ...
... painted for Giuliano della Rovere . In the centre are the Virgin and Saviour , surrounded by the Evangelists and Sibyls ; in the corners , the Fathers of the Church - Gregory , Ambrose , Jerome , and Augustine . Beneath are the tombs of ...
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... painted against God's loveliest sky . ' Hawthorne . Since 1880 the long lines and tender green of the Prati Cincin- nati , which up to that time extended from S. Peter's to the then noble cypresses of the Porta del Popolo , have been ...
... painted against God's loveliest sky . ' Hawthorne . Since 1880 the long lines and tender green of the Prati Cincin- nati , which up to that time extended from S. Peter's to the then noble cypresses of the Porta del Popolo , have been ...
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... paintings , statues , and other works of art which he collected at immense expense , idly squandering away upon them the vast fortune he amassed in the wars . Insomuch that now , when luxury is so much advanced , the gardens of Lucullus ...
... paintings , statues , and other works of art which he collected at immense expense , idly squandering away upon them the vast fortune he amassed in the wars . Insomuch that now , when luxury is so much advanced , the gardens of Lucullus ...
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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.