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Italy, a Poem - Page 104
by Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 284 pages
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Florence

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). General Literature Committee - Florence (Italy) - 1857 - 154 pages
...paintings, and adorned with sculptures. The Sacristy, frequently called Capella de' Depositi,— " That chamber of the dead, Where the gigantic shapes of Night and Day, Turn'd into stone, rest everlastingly" — claims notice as Michael Angelo's first essay in architecture,...
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Scenes and Impressions Abroad

Joel Edson Rockwell - Europe - 1860 - 356 pages
...precious beyond price. The sacristy is one of the first works of Michael Angelo as an architect. This is " That chamber of the dead, Where the gigantic shapes...Night and Day, Turned into stone, rest everlastingly." Here are the sepulchral monuments of the Medicis, and other noble families of Tuscany. Upon one of...
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Handbook for travellers in central Italy [by O. Blewitt].

Octavian Blewitt - 1861 - 552 pages
...la vergogna dura Non veder, non sentir m' e gran' ventura ; Pero non mi destar ; deh parla basso." " Nor then forget that Chamber of the Dead, Where the...Night and Day, Turned into stone, rest everlastingly ; •' still are breatliing,and shed around at noon •'ofold influence, only to be felt — it, a...
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Modern Painters: Pt. III. Of ideas of beauty

John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1862 - 240 pages
...Rogers,s Italy supersedes all further description. I suppose most lovers of art know it by heart. " Nor then forget that chamber of the dead, Where the...still are breathing, and shed round at noon A twofold influence,—only to be felt— A light, a darkness, mingling each with each; Both, and yet neither....
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Handbook of Florence and Its Environs...

John Murray (Firm) - Florence (Italy) - 1867 - 216 pages
...la vergogna dura Non veder, non sentir m' e gran" ventura ; Pero non mi destar ; deh parla basso." " Nor then forget that Chamber of the Dead, Where the gigantic shapes of Night and Day, Turned into s'one, rest everlastingly; Yet still are breathing.atul shed around at noon A twofold influence, only...
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Handbook for travellers in central Italy [by O. Blewitt].

Octavian Blewitt - 1867 - 568 pages
...vergogna dura Non veder, non sentir m' fe gran1 ventura ; Pero non mi destar ; deh parla basso." 1 Nor then forget that Chamber of the Dead, Where the gigantic shapes of Nicht and Day, Turned into s'one, rest everlastingly; Yet still are hreathing,aiid shed around at noon...
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Italy and Her Capital

E. S. G. S., Emily Susan Goulding Saunders - Italy - 1868 - 228 pages
...enquiry, is strikingly pathetic. Rogers gives well the impression made by the Duke Lorenzo — " Nor yet forget that chamber of the dead, Where the gigantic...influence, only to be felt : A light, a darkness, blending each with each, 15oth, and yet neither. There, from age to age, Two ghosts are sitting on...
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The Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers

Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1869 - 548 pages
...* "Mio bel san Giovanni"—Inferno, 19. 4 Paradise, 17. Nor then forget that Chamber of the Dead, 1 Where the gigantic shapes of Night and Day, Turned...still are breathing, and shed round at noon A twofold influence—only to be felt— A light, a darkness, mingling each with each ; Both and yet neither....
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Handbook for travellers in central Italy [by O. Blewitt].

Octavian Blewitt - 1875 - 542 pages
...vergogna dura Non veder, non sentir m' e, gran' ventura ; Perú non mi deitar ; deh parla baeno." " Nor then forget that Chamber of the Dead, Where the gigantic shapes of Night and D;iyf Turned into «tone, rent everlastingly ; Yet still are breathing.and shed around at noon A twofold...
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Florence, Siena, and other towns of Tuscany and Umbria

Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - Art museums - 1876 - 454 pages
...seems like life suddenly congealed with marble. 'Vivos ducent de marmore vultus. ' " — JS Harford. " Nor then forget that Chamber of the Dead, Where the...yet neither. There, from age to age, Two ghosts are silting on their sepulchres. That is the Duke Lorenzo. Mark him well. He meditates, his head upon his...
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