Memoir of the late John Talwin Shewell, to which is appended Notes of his Italian journey, and fugitive poemsWilliam Hunt, Steam Press, 1870 - 453 pages |
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... Emperor in the following speech , while surrounded by the bloody corpses of their companions : " Maximinian , we are thy soldiers , but we regard God more than thee . He has given us life , and we receive from thee only the price of our ...
... Emperor in the following speech , while surrounded by the bloody corpses of their companions : " Maximinian , we are thy soldiers , but we regard God more than thee . He has given us life , and we receive from thee only the price of our ...
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... Emperor of Austria , and uncle of the Archduke of Tuscany and it doubtless requires the exercise of all his skill and moderation to maintain the Austrian ascen- dancy in these fine provinces , over which , it seems to me , it has no ...
... Emperor of Austria , and uncle of the Archduke of Tuscany and it doubtless requires the exercise of all his skill and moderation to maintain the Austrian ascen- dancy in these fine provinces , over which , it seems to me , it has no ...
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... Emperors of Austria and Russia , as well as several used by Napoleon . Dr. Edward D. Clarke states that these dockyards are two and a half Italian miles in circumference ; when he saw them they occupied two thousand five hundred men ...
... Emperors of Austria and Russia , as well as several used by Napoleon . Dr. Edward D. Clarke states that these dockyards are two and a half Italian miles in circumference ; when he saw them they occupied two thousand five hundred men ...
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... Emperor of Austria . 8th . Saw the Pisani Palace , remarkable only for a large picture of the Pisani family , under the characters of Alexander the Great and the family of Darius , by Paul Veronese ; and another of the death of Darius ...
... Emperor of Austria . 8th . Saw the Pisani Palace , remarkable only for a large picture of the Pisani family , under the characters of Alexander the Great and the family of Darius , by Paul Veronese ; and another of the death of Darius ...
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... Emperor sued , And Monarchs gazed and envied , in that hour When Venice was a queen with an unrivalled dower . " " The mere mention of Venice , " says this reviewer , " instantly recalls to English minds , Othello , Shylock , and ...
... Emperor sued , And Monarchs gazed and envied , in that hour When Venice was a queen with an unrivalled dower . " " The mere mention of Venice , " says this reviewer , " instantly recalls to English minds , Othello , Shylock , and ...
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Page 133 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand...
Page 216 - I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 329 - 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 watch-dog bayed beyond the Tiber : and, More near, from out the Caesars...
Page 171 - So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied...
Page 34 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 225 - 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 ; — 4 What was this tower of strength? within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so hid? — A woman's grave.
Page 336 - He has visited all Europe,— not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art; not to collect medals, or...
Page 35 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 273 - Where the car climbed the capitol; far and wide Temple and tower went down, nor left a site. Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, "Here was, or is,
Page 191 - But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone — with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook His former city, what could be, Of earthly structures, in His honour piled, Of a sublimer aspect? Majesty, Power, Glory, Strength, and Beauty, all are aisled In this eternal ark of worship undefiled.