Rome: A Tour of Many Days, 第 2 卷Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849 - 521 頁 |
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altar ancient angle antico appears arches balustrade Basilica bass-relief bearing belonging brick bronze building built called capitals ceiling century chamber chapel church circular close columns composed comprising consequence considerable consists constructed contained continually convent corresponding covered described direction door elevated enclosure entablature entrance existence extending extremity face feet figure flank Forum four fragments fresco front gilded ground hand height inches inscription interior latter leading left-hand lined lower manner middle monument nave northern object observed occupied opposite original ornamented painted pair Palatine pavement pedestal pediment period Piazza picture placed plain Porta portico portion position precisely present preserved principal protected question referred regard relating remains representing rests road Roman Rome ruin seen side similar situated southern space square standing statue steps supported supposed surface surmounted Temple various vaulted wall western white marble whole
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第 204 頁 - Caesars' palace came The owl's long cry, and, interruptedly, Of distant sentinels the fitful song Begun and died upon the gentle wind. Some cypresses beyond the time-worn breach Appeared to skirt the horizon ; yet they stood Within a bow-shot.
第 204 頁 - Midst the chief relics of almighty Rome; The trees which grew along the broken arches Waved dark in the blue midnight, and the stars Shone through the rents of ruin ; from afar The watch-dog bayed beyond the Tiber : and, More near, from out the Caesars...
第 447 頁 - ... were preserved and re-erected. His anxiety that his successors should not meddle with or injure these objects of antiquity is shown by the inscription on a marble slab in the tribune : " Presbyter, Card. Successor quisquis fueris, rogo te, per gloriam Dei, et per merita horum martyrum, nihil demito, nihil minuito, nee mutato ; restitutam antiquitatem pie servato ; sic Deus martyrum suorum precibus semper adjuvet I " The chancel is raised and surrounded by an inlaid marble screen.
第 8 頁 - From the evidence it would appear that the submergence took place at the end of the fourteenth or the beginning of the fifteenth century.
第 49 頁 - Franciscan of the adjoining convent, and on the present occasion appears lying on its back, the feet towards the spectator. The figure, about the size of a child of two years old, the cheeks remarkably full and round, painted red and white, like the cheeks of a doll, wears on its head a gilded crown sparkling with jewels, and is enveloped in...
第 54 頁 - Art, that the discovery of a precious marble was an event for celebration ; and, in the instance of the Laocoon, it was recorded on the tomb of the discoverer. ' Felici de Fredis, qui ob proprias virtutes, et repertum Laocoontis divinum quod in Vaticano cernes fere respirans simulacrum, immortalitatem...
第 298 頁 - Huc prius angustis eiecta cadavera cellis conservus vili portanda locabat in arca; hoc miserae plebi stabat commune sepulcrum, Pantolabo scurrae Nomentanoque nepoti: mille pedes in fronte, trecentos cippus in agrum hic dabat, heredes monumentum ne sequeretur. Nunc licet Esquiliis habitare salubribus atque aggere in aprico spatiari, quo modo tristes albis informem spectabant ossibus agrum...
第 50 頁 - ... theatre ; and here and there, on either side, as well as on the broad platform on the summit, small temporary stalls are erected, where plain and coloured engravings of the Bambino are not only exposed for sale...
第 49 頁 - ... is a personification of the Padre Eterno in the midst of clouds and glory, surrounded by a host of angels. Such, at all events, is the intense interest created among the public by the spectacle, especially at the Christmas festival, that for three, four, or five days, while the Bambino is exhibiting, it is impossible to penetrate the compact mass of people gathered round about, or even catch a glimpse of the object, without very considerable exertion ; while the gaiety of manner and lively costume...