Sketches and Studies in Italy and GreeceSmith, Elder, & Company, 1879 - 430 páginas |
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... passion , which needs no form or colour , no interpreting associations , to convey its strong but indistinct significance . Each man there finds his soul revealed to him , and enabled to assume a cast of feeling in obedience to the ...
... passion , which needs no form or colour , no interpreting associations , to convey its strong but indistinct significance . Each man there finds his soul revealed to him , and enabled to assume a cast of feeling in obedience to the ...
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... passion aspiring heavenward . Under Guido's hand he is a model of mere carnal comeliness . And so forth through the whole range of the Italian painters . We know Sebastian only by his arrows . The case is very dif- ferent with Antinous ...
... passion aspiring heavenward . Under Guido's hand he is a model of mere carnal comeliness . And so forth through the whole range of the Italian painters . We know Sebastian only by his arrows . The case is very dif- ferent with Antinous ...
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... passion , and to have invented the worst stories concerning the favourite's death . To perpetuate these calumnious reports was the real interest of the Christian apolo- gists , who not unnaturally thought it scandalous that a hand- some ...
... passion , and to have invented the worst stories concerning the favourite's death . To perpetuate these calumnious reports was the real interest of the Christian apolo- gists , who not unnaturally thought it scandalous that a hand- some ...
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... passion and his superstition , would have been an infamy even in Rome . Moreover , that cult was not , like the creations of the impious emperors , forgotten or de- stroyed by public acclamation . It took root and flourished apparently ...
... passion and his superstition , would have been an infamy even in Rome . Moreover , that cult was not , like the creations of the impious emperors , forgotten or de- stroyed by public acclamation . It took root and flourished apparently ...
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... passion in his lifetime . The Roman Emperor was half a god . He remembered how Zeus had loved Gany- mede , and raised him to Olympus ; how Achilles had loved Patroclus , and performed his funeral rites at Troy ; how the demigod ...
... passion in his lifetime . The Roman Emperor was half a god . He remembered how Zeus had loved Gany- mede , and raised him to Olympus ; how Achilles had loved Patroclus , and performed his funeral rites at Troy ; how the demigod ...
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Página 104 - Approach strong deliveress, When it is so, when thou hast taken them I joyously sing the dead, ; Lost in the loving floating ocean of thee, Laved in the flood of thy bliss O death.
Página 404 - Begirt with British and Armoric knights ; And all who since, baptized or infidel, Jousted in Aspramont, or Montalban, Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, When Charlemain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabbia.
Página 422 - Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage. Far off from these a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
Página 390 - Timon hath made his everlasting mansion Upon the beached verge of the salt flood ; Whom once a day with his embossed froth The turbulent surge shall cover; thither come, And let my gravestone be your oracle.
Página 391 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling; — 'tis too horrible!
Página 94 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Página 399 - But hold some two days' conference with the dead ! From them I should learn somewhat I am sure I never shall know here. I'll tell thee a miracle ; I am not mad yet, to my cause of sorrow.
Página 392 - Here she was wont to go ! and here ! and here ! Just where those daisies, pinks, and violets grow : The world may find the spring by following her, For other print her airy steps ne'er left. Her treading would not bend a blade of grass, Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk ! But like the soft west wind she shot along, And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sowed them with her odorous foot.
Página 389 - In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew And saw the lion's shadow ere himself And ran dismay'd away. Lor. In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea banks and waft her love To come again to Carthage.
Página 423 - Down thither prone in flight He speeds, and through the vast ethereal sky Sails between worlds and worlds, with steady wing: Now on the polar winds, then with quick fan Winnows the buxom air...