There is much in every way in the city of Florence to excite the curiosity, to kindle the imagination and to gratify the taste. Sheltered on the north by the vine-clad hills of Fiesole, whose Cyclopean walls carry back the antiquary to ages before the... Annales of the Dudley Observatory - Page xlviby Dudley Observatory - 1866Full view - About this book
| 1856 - 974 pages
...astronomy, we may well pause for a moment. " There is much, in every way, in the city of Florence to excite the curiosity, to kindle the imagination, and...cyclopean walls carry back the antiquary to ages before ihe Roman, before the Etruscan power, the flowery city (Fiorenza) covers the sunny banks of the Arno... | |
| Literature - 1856 - 604 pages
...fine ascription of immortality to Galileo. There is much, in every way, in the city of Florence to excite the curiosity, to kindle the imagination, and...to gratify the taste. Sheltered on the north by the vine clad hills of Fiesole, whose Cyclopean walls carry back the antiquary to ages before the Roman,... | |
| Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1859 - 872 pages
...astronomy, we may well pause for a moment. . There is much, in every way, in the city of Florence, to excite the curiosity, to kindle the imagination, and...Cyclopean walls' carry back the antiquary to ages be fore the Roman, before the Etruscan, power, the flowery city ^ (Fiorenza) covers the sunny banks... | |
| Henry Barnard - Education - 1856 - 768 pages
...instrumental Astronomy, we may well pause for a moment There is much, in every way, in the city of Florence to excite the curiosity, to kindle the imagination, and...the taste. Sheltered on the north by the vine-clad lulls of Fiesole, whose Cyclopean walls carry back the antiquary to ages before the Roman, before the... | |
| 1856 - 964 pages
...fine ascriptiun of immortality to Galileo. There is much, in every way, in the city of Florence to excite the curiosity, to kindle the imagination, and to gratify the taste. Sheltered on the north bv the vine clad hills of Fiesolé, whose Cyclopean walls carry back the antiquary tn ам? before... | |
| Education - 1856 - 594 pages
...vine-clad hills of Fiesole, whose Cyclopean walls carry back the antiquary to ages before the Roman, before the Etruscan power, the flowery city (Fiorenza) covers the sunny banks of the Amo with its stately palaces. Dark and frowning piles of mediaeval structure ; a majestic dome, —... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...Discourse nt Alhany, I856. FLORENCE — GALILEO. There is mnch, in every way, in the city of Florence to excite the curiosity, to kindle the imagination, and...vine-clad hills of Fiesole, whose Cyclopean walls carry hack the antiquary to ages before the Roman, before the Etrnscan power, the flowery city (Fiorenza)... | |
| Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 588 pages
...FLORENCE AND ITS TREASURES. KDWARD EYERRTT. THEEE is much, in ever}' way, in the city of Florence to excite the curiosity, to kindle the imagination, and...walls carry back the antiquary to ages before the Roman, before the Etruscan power, the flowery city (Fiorenza) covers the sunny banks of the Arno with... | |
| Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 586 pages
...FLORENCE AND ITS TREASUEES. KDWAED EVEESTT. THEEE is much, in every way, in the city of Florence to excite the curiosity, to kindle the imagination, and...the north by the vine-clad hills of Fiesole, whose Cyelopean walls carry back the antiquary to ages before the Roman, before the Etruscan power, the flowery... | |
| Edward Everett - 1870 - 908 pages
...astronomy, we may well pause for a moment. There is much, in every way, in the city of Florence, to excite the curiosity, to kindle the imagination, and...walls carry back the antiquary to ages before the Roman, before the Etruscan, power, the flowery city (Fiorenza) covers the sunny banks of the Arno with... | |
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