 Nor then forget that Chamber of the Dead, Where the gigantic shapes of Night and Day, Turned into stone, rest everlastingly ; Yet still are breathing, and shed round at noon A two-fold influence — only to be felt — A light, a darkness, mingling each...  Italy, a Poem - Page 104by Samuel Rogers - 1842 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Smythe Memes - Sculpture, Modern - 1825 - 610 pages
...more fugitive poetical literature of Italy. The monuments of the Medici, " Where the gigantic forms of night and day, Turned into stone, rest everlastingly,...breathing, and shed round at noon A twofold influence," — present also admirable illustrations of Michael Angelo's style, both in composition and in execution... | |
 | J. D. Sinclair - Italy - 1829 - 366 pages
...personifying in the one instance Dawn and Twitiyhl, in the other Night and Day. " — gigantic forms—- Turned into stone, rest everlastingly, Yet still are...breathing, and shed round at noon A twofold influence. These monuments occupy the two sides of the chapel right and left of the altar, opposite to which is... | |
 | J. D. Sinclair - Italy - 1829 - 352 pages
...personifying in the one instance Dawn and Twilight, in the other Night and Day. " gigantic formsTurned into stone, rest everlastingly, Yet still are breathing, and shed round at noon A twofold influence. These monuments occupy the two sides of the chapel right and left of the altar, opposite to which is... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...stairs. Nor then forget that Chamber of the Dead, (80) Where the gigantic forms of Night and Day, Turn'd into stone, rest everlastingly, Yet still are breathing; and shed round at noon A two-fold influence—only to be felt — A light, a darkness, mingling each with each ; Both and yet neither.... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pages
...of Night and DVTum'd into stone, rest everlastingly, Yet still are breathing; and shed round tt BO» A two-fold influence— only to be felt — A light, a darkness, mingling each with eacn, Both and yet neither. There, from age to «g». Two Ghosts are sitting on their sepulchre* That... | |
 | Robert Burford - Florence (Italy) - 1832 - 32 pages
...two celebrated — Gigantic forms of Night and Day Turned into stone, rest everlastingly ; Yet -till are breathing, and shed round at noon A two-fold influence, only to be felt. The Capella di Medici is one of the most beautiful and expensive depositories of the dead ever erected... | |
 | George William D. Evans - 1835 - 496 pages
...painting, subjects which even the most fastidious are never weary of admiring." The Chapel de' Depositi, That chamber of the dead, Where the gigantic shapes...Night and Day, Turned into stone, rest everlastingly, deserves notice rather as Michael Angelo's first essay in architecture than for any merits of its own.... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1838 - 752 pages
...stairs. Nor then forget that chamber of the dead, Where the gigantic forms of night and day, Tum'd arc sitting on their sepulchres. That is the duke Lorenzo. Mark him well. He meditates, his head upon... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1840 - 650 pages
...air • A liring poet, unapproached for the delicacy of his taste, ha« these exquisite lines:— ' Nor then forget that chamber of the dead, Where the...everlastingly. Yet still are breathing, and shed round .it noon A twofold influence, only to be felt — A light, a darkness, mingling each with each, Both,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 750 pages
...stairs. Nor then forget that chamber of the dead, Where the gigantic forms of night and day, Turn'd into stone, rest everlastingly, Yet still are breathing; and shed round at noon A two-fold influence—only to be felt— A light, a darkness, mingling each with each; Both and yet neither.... | |
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