The Mediterranean: Its Storied Cities and Venerable RuinsJames Pott & Company, 1902 - 367 páginas |
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The Mediterranean: Its Storied Cities and Venerable Ruins Thomas George Bonney Visualização completa - 1907 |
The Mediterranean: Its Storied Cities and Venerable Ruins Thomas George Bonney Visualização completa - 1907 |
The Mediterranean: Its Storied Cities and Venerable Ruins Thomas George Bonney Visualização completa - 1907 |
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Alexandria Algiers ancient Antibes antiquity architectural attractive Barcelona beautiful blue building built Canal Cannes castle cathedral century charm church Civita Vecchia cliff coast color columns commercial distance eastern Egypt English Estérel Europe façade famous farther feet fortifications fortress French gardens Genoa Genoese Gibraltar Gozo Grand Greek harbor headland hills houses interest island Italian Italy land less Ligurian look magnificent Malaga Malta Maltese marble Marseilles mediæval Mediterranean miles modern Monte Moorish mountain Naples narrow Nice Nile once palace Palermo picturesque plain port Porto Empedocle Posilipo Pozzuoli Promenade promontory Provençal PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR quays railway remains rich rise Riviera road rock rock of Monaco Roman Rosetta round ruins scenery seen shore Sicily side sight slopes Sorrento Spanish Spezzia stands stone Straits streets summit temple tion tourist tower town traveller Valletta Venice village visitor walls
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Página 222 - ... lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering among the branches, all twined together into an endless network of buds and plumes; and, in the midst of it, the solemn forms of angels, sceptred and robed to the feet, and leaning to each other across the gates, their figures indistinct among the gleaming of the golden ground through the leaves beside them, interrupted and dim, like the morning light as it faded back among the branches of Eden, when first its gates were angel-guarded...
Página 222 - ... a confusion of delight, amidst which the breasts of the Greek horses are seen blazing in their breadth of golden strength, and the St. Mark's Lion, lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as if in ecstasy, the crests of the arches break into a marble foam, and toss themselves 287 far into the blue sky in flashes and wreaths of sculptured spray, as if the breakers on the Lido shore had been frost-bound before they fell, and the sea-nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst.
Página 221 - And well may they fall back, for beyond those troops of ordered arches there rises a vision out of the earth, and all the great square seems to have opened from it in a kind of awe, that we may see it far away ; — a multitude of pillars and white domes, clustered into a long, low pyramid of coloured light ; a treasure-heap, it seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture of alabaster,...
Página 246 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
Página 221 - ... a multitude of pillars and white domes, clustered into a long low pyramid of coloured light; a treasure-heap, it seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture of alabaster, clear as amber and delicate as ivory — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering among the branches, all twined together into...
Página 228 - ... in order to carry the bier from the city of the living to the city of the dead. The advanced guard is formed by some blind and poor people and petty scribes, perhaps also some boys as a kind of choristers, and some flag-bearers. The bier is borne by four men, friends of the deceased...
Página 222 - ... of men, each in its appointed season upon the earth; and above these, another range of glittering pinnacles, mixed with white arches edged with scarlet flowers, a confusion of delight, amidst which the breasts of the Greek horses are seen blazing in their breadth of golden strength...
Página 222 - their bluest veins to kiss" — the shadow, as it steals back from them, revealing line after line of azure undulation, as a receding tide leaves the waved sand; their capitals rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting leaves of acanthus and vine, and mystical signs, all beginning and ending...
Página 192 - Health-Officer and a guard of soldiers, attended the poet's obsequies. It was a glorious day, and a splendid prospect — the cruel and calm sea before, the Apennines behind. A curlew wheeled close to the pyre, screaming, and would not be driven away; the flame arose golden and towering. The corpse had now turned a dark indigo-colour. " The only portions that were not consumed...
Página 192 - Byron and Leigh Hunt, with the health-officer, and a guard of soldiers, attended the poet's obsequies. It was a glorious day, and a splendid prospect — the cruel and calm sea before, the Apennines behind. A curlew wheeled close...