Familiar Allusions: A Hand-book of Miscellaneous Information Including the Names of Celebrated Statues, Paintings, Palaces, Country-seats, Ruins, Churches, Ships, Streets, Clubs, Natural Curiosities, and the Like Begun (but Left Unfinished)Houghton, Mifflin, 1881 - 584 страници |
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... magnificent breakwater of granite at Dover , England , one of the greatest works of the kind in the world . It extends nearly half a mile into the sea . The work was begun in 1844 , and is not yet finished . Admiralty Square . A famous ...
... magnificent breakwater of granite at Dover , England , one of the greatest works of the kind in the world . It extends nearly half a mile into the sea . The work was begun in 1844 , and is not yet finished . Admiralty Square . A famous ...
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... magnificent pulpit . . . . It is complet- ed with the most beautiful drapery of alabaster sterites of all colors , varying from white to pink - red , overhanging the beholder . Immediately under the pulpit is a beautiful lake of water ...
... magnificent pulpit . . . . It is complet- ed with the most beautiful drapery of alabaster sterites of all colors , varying from white to pink - red , overhanging the beholder . Immediately under the pulpit is a beautiful lake of water ...
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... magnificent specimen in Great Britain -perhaps in the world - of the feudal castle of mediæval days . " The Times , 1869 . Home of the Percy's high - born race , Home of their beautiful and brave , Alike their birth and burial place ...
... magnificent specimen in Great Britain -perhaps in the world - of the feudal castle of mediæval days . " The Times , 1869 . Home of the Percy's high - born race , Home of their beautiful and brave , Alike their birth and burial place ...
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... magnificent temple at Memphis , and lodged in a palace adjoining , - the Apieum : dead , he was buried in ex- cavated vaults at Sakkárah , and wor- shipped in a temple built over them— the Serapeum . " Murray's Handbook . Apollinare in ...
... magnificent temple at Memphis , and lodged in a palace adjoining , - the Apieum : dead , he was buried in ex- cavated vaults at Sakkárah , and wor- shipped in a temple built over them— the Serapeum . " Murray's Handbook . Apollinare in ...
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... it , and it is proba- bly the most magnificent pittura di machina of the decorative period in which it was executed . " It is painted on the ceiling of a room in the palace at Versailles . Arc de l'Étoile , or Arc de Tri- omphe . APO APO ...
... it , and it is proba- bly the most magnificent pittura di machina of the decorative period in which it was executed . " It is painted on the ceiling of a room in the palace at Versailles . Arc de l'Étoile , or Arc de Tri- omphe . APO APO ...
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Страница 570 - WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey: where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness that is not disagreeable.
Страница 485 - If ever I should wish for a retreat whither I might steal from the world and its distractions and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley.
Страница 269 - I felt the Laocoon very powerfully, though very quietly ; an immortal agony with a strange calmness diffused through it, so that it resembles the vast rage of the sea, calm on account of its immensity ; or the tumult of Niagara, which does not seem to be tumult, because it keeps pouring on forever and ever.
Страница 331 - This pillar was set up in perpetual remembrance of the most dreadful burning of this protestant city, begun and carried on by the treachery and malice of the popish faction, in the beginning of September, in the year of our Lord 1666. In order to the carrying on their horrid plot for extirpating the protestant religion and old English liberty, and introducing popery and slavery.
Страница 230 - Europe, who have moved great assemblies by reason and eloquence, who have put life into bronze and canvas, or who have left to posterity things so written as it shall not willingly let them die, were there mixed with all that was loveliest and gayest in the society of the most splendid of capitals.
Страница 467 - Stall," struck sharp upon the ear, and the prow turned aside under the mighty cornices that half met over the narrow canal, where the plash of the water followed close and loud, ringing along the marble by the boat's side ; and when at last that boat darted forth upon the breadth of silver sea, across which the front of the Ducal palace, flushed with its sanguine veins, looks to the snowy dome of Our Lady of Salvation...
Страница 363 - Caesars' palace came The owl's long cry, and, interruptedly, Of distant sentinels the fitful song Begun and died upon the gentle wind. Some cypresses beyond the time-worn breach Appear'd to skirt the horizon, yet they stood Within a bowshot.
Страница 113 - 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 watch-dog bayed beyond the Tiber ; and More near from out the Caesars...