The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, Volumen1J. Murray, 1848 - 1234 páginas |
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Página 151 - It was, I ween, a lovely spot of ground ; And there a season atween June and May, Half...
Página 507 - High towers, faire temples, goodly theaters, Strong walls, rich porches, princelie pallaces, Large streetes, brave houses, sacred sepulchers, Sure gates, sweete gardens, stately galleries, * Wrought with faire pillours and fine imageries ; All those (0 pitie !) now are turnd to dust...
Página 272 - On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays, When the clear, cold eve's declining, He sees the round towers of other days, In the wave beneath him shining! Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the days that are over, Thus, sighing, look through the waves of time For the long-faded glories they cover!
Página xxiii - ... or other palaestric exercises. We behold them stretched on the death-bed, — the last rites performed by mourning relatives, — the funeral procession, — their bodies laid in the tomb,— and the solemn festivals held in their honour. Nor even here do we lose sight of them, but follow their souls to the unseen world; perceive them in the hands of good or evil spirits, conducted to the judgment seat, and in the enjoyment of bliss, or suffering the punishment of the damned.
Página 68 - urbs alta et munita ;" and says, " neque scalis capi poterat, neque in obsidione vis ulla erat." '—Cell. ' Making the circuit of Castel Giubileo, you are led round till you meet the road, where it issues from the hollow at the northern angle of the city. Besides the tombs which are found on both sides of the southern promontory of the city, there is a cave, running far into the rock, and branching off into several chambers and passages.
Página 404 - Once more we look, and all is still as night, All desolate ! Groves, temples, palaces, Swept from the sight, and nothing visible, Amid the sulphurous vapours that exhale As from a land accurst, save here and there, An empty tomb, a fragment like the limb Of some dismember'd giant.
Página 183 - Virgil : the bare swelling ground to the north, with Soracte towering above: the snowcapt Apennines in the eastern horizon : the deep silence, the seclusion ; the absence of human habitations (not even a shepherd's hut) within the sphere of vision, save the distant town of Sant...
Página lxxxii - Bosio, and others, though all found in Italy: While many have handles, ears, and long necks, but most imitate a circular figure, in a spherical and round composure; whether from any mystery, best duration or capacity, were but a conjecture. But the common form with necks was a proper figure, making our last bed like our first; nor much unlike the Urnes of our Nativity, while we lay in the nether part of the earth, and inward vault of our Microcosme.
Página 460 - A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust : and when Can man its shatter'd splendour renovate, Recall its virtues back, and vanquish Time and Fate?
Página li - Cupra," says George Dennis (The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, 1878), "was the Etruscan Hera or Juno, and her principal shrines seem to have been at Veii, Falerii, and Perusia. Like her counterpart among the Greeks and Romans, she appears to have been worshipped under other forms, according to her various attributes, as Feronia, Uni, Eilithya-Lucothea.