Rome: The Rome of the ancientsL.C. Page, 1904 |
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ancient Rome aqueduct Arch of Titus architecture Augustus Aurelian Basilica Julia Baths of Caracalla beautiful beneath bronze building built Caligula Campagna Campus Martius Capitoline Capitoline Hill Castor and Pollux century B. C. Christian Church Cicero Circus colonnade Colosseum columns Comitium crowd Domitian emperors erected Esquiline excavations farther feet Forum Forum of Augustus fountains fragments gardens gate Golden House Hadrian hill hundred imperial inscription Julius Cæsar later LENOX AND TILDEN marble Marcus Aurelius masonry modern monument Museum Nero Nero's once palace Palatine pass pavement Phoebus Piazza Pincian popes portico PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR Quirinal remains Roman city Romulus Rostra ruins Sacred sculptures Senate Septimius Severus slope spot square stairs stands statues steed stone stood street tells Temple of Venus Temple of Vespasian thermæ Tiber Tiberius TILDEN FOUNDATIONS tion to-day tomb Trajan vaulted Venus and Rome Vespasian Vestals Villa walls YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Página 85 - But with a crash like thunder Fell every loosened beam, And like a dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream: And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam.
Página 130 - To where the reeking shambles stood, piled up with horn and hide, Close to yon low dark archway, where, in a crimson flood, Leaps down to the great sewer the gurgling stream of blood. Hard by, a flesher on a block had laid his whittle down ; Virginius caught the whittle up, and hid it in his gown.
Página 98 - This grave contains all that was mortal of a young English poet, who, on his death-bed, in the bitterness of his heart at the malicious power of his enemies, desired these words to be engraven on his tombstone : " Here lies one whose name was writ in water...
Página 126 - While laurel-boughs and flowers, From house-tops and from windows, Fell on their crests in showers. When they drew nigh to Vesta, They vaulted down amain, And washed their horses in the well That springs by Vesta's fane. And straight again they mounted, And rode to Vesta's door ; Then, like a blast, away they passed, And no man saw them more.
Página 32 - The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, Nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?
Página 101 - The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
Página 247 - Scipios* tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber ! through a marble wilderness ? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress!
Página 130 - Virginius led the maid a little space aside, To where the reeking shambles stood, piled up with horn and hide, Close to yon low dark archway, where in a crimson flood, Leaps down to the great sewer the gurgling stream of blood. Hard by, a flesher on a block had laid his whittle down, Virginius caught the whittle up, and hid it in his gown. And then his eyes grew very dim, and his throat began to swell, And in a hoarse, changed voice he spake, " Farewell, sweet child ! Farewell ! Oh!
Página 18 - ... creature, as he called her. bidding her come the next day, and plead her cause before him. But her enemy Narcissus, knowing how easy might be the passage from compassion to love, glided from the chamber, and boldly ordered a tribune and some centurions to go and slay his victim. ' Such,' he said, ' was the emperor's command ; ' and his word was obeyed without hesitation.
Página 18 - is over ; nought remains but to look for a decent exit from it.' But the soul of the reprobate was corrupted by her vices ; she retained no sense of honour ; she continued to weep and groan as if hope still existed ; when suddenly the doors were burst open, the tribune and his swordsmen appeared before her, and Euodus assailed her, dumb-stricken as she lay, with contumelious and brutal reproaches. Roused at...