Familiar Allusions: A Hand-book of Miscellaneous Information Including the Names of Celebrated Statues, Paintings, Palaces, Country-seats, Ruins, Churches, Ships, Streets, Clubs, Natural Curiosities, and the Like Begun (but Left Unfinished)Houghton, Mifflin, 1881 - 584 頁 |
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... picture being the Triune God with the Holy Virgin and the Baptist at his side , and the lower central picture showing the Lamb of the Reve- lation , " whose blood flows into a cup ; over it is the dove of the Holy Spirit ; angels who ...
... picture being the Triune God with the Holy Virgin and the Baptist at his side , and the lower central picture showing the Lamb of the Reve- lation , " whose blood flows into a cup ; over it is the dove of the Holy Spirit ; angels who ...
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... picture by Giovanni da Fiesole , called Fra Angelico ( 1387-1455 ) . In the Museum of St Mark , Flor- ence , Italy . Adoration of the Magi ( Kings ) 1. A celebrated picture by Roger van der Weyden ( d . 1464 ) , the Flemish painter ...
... picture by Giovanni da Fiesole , called Fra Angelico ( 1387-1455 ) . In the Museum of St Mark , Flor- ence , Italy . Adoration of the Magi ( Kings ) 1. A celebrated picture by Roger van der Weyden ( d . 1464 ) , the Flemish painter ...
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... picture by Jo- seph Mallord William Turner ( 1775-1857 ) , the eminent English painter . Andersonville Prison . A noted military prison in Sumter Co. , Georgia , in which , during the civil war in the United States , many Union soldiers ...
... picture by Jo- seph Mallord William Turner ( 1775-1857 ) , the eminent English painter . Andersonville Prison . A noted military prison in Sumter Co. , Georgia , in which , during the civil war in the United States , many Union soldiers ...
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... picture in the Pitti Palace , by Carlo Dolce . " The name of the painter is disputed ; but , according to tradition , it is the work of a certain Bartolomeo , who , while he sat meditating upon the various excellencies and perfections ...
... picture in the Pitti Palace , by Carlo Dolce . " The name of the painter is disputed ; but , according to tradition , it is the work of a certain Bartolomeo , who , while he sat meditating upon the various excellencies and perfections ...
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... picture by Giotto di Bordone ( 1276-1336 ) . In the Chapel of the Arena at Padua , Italy . Ascension , The . A grand altar- picture by Pietro Perugino ( 1446- 1524 ) , originally painted for the church of S. Pietro Maggiore , at Perugia ...
... picture by Giotto di Bordone ( 1276-1336 ) . In the Chapel of the Arena at Padua , Italy . Ascension , The . A grand altar- picture by Pietro Perugino ( 1446- 1524 ) , originally painted for the church of S. Pietro Maggiore , at Perugia ...
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Abbey ancient antiquity arch Bavaria Bayard Taylor beautiful bell brated bridge British building built Byron Cæsar called Carlyle Castle cathedral cave cele celebrated century chapel Christ church Club contains Court derives its name dome Duke edifice Egypt England erected famous Fergusson finest Florence formerly fortress France French fresco Gallery Garden Gate George Ticknor Hall Hill Hillard Holy House Italy J. A. Symonds Jameson John John Evelyn King known land London Lord Louvre Madonna magnificent mansion marble ment miles monument mountain Museum N. P. Willis noted painted palace Palazzo Paris Park Peter Peter Paul Rubens Piazza picture Pitti Palace Pope prison Prussia Raphael Sanzio river rock Roman Rome royal ruins Santa scene Scotland sculpture seat ship square stands statue stone Street Taine tavern Temple Thackeray theatre tion Titian tomb tower Trans ture Vatican Venice Villa Virgin walls well-known
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第 133 頁 - To me it is a most touching face; perhaps, of all faces that I know, the most so. Lonely there, painted as on vacancy, with the simple laurel wound round it...
第 59 頁 - About this time it was much the fashion for several ladies to have evening assemblies, where the fair sex might participate in conversation with literary and ingenious men, animated by a desire to please.
第 570 頁 - WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey: where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness that is not disagreeable.
第 485 頁 - If ever I should wish for a retreat whither I might steal from the world and its distractions and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley.
第 269 頁 - I felt the Laocoon very powerfully, though very quietly ; an immortal agony with a strange calmness diffused through it, so that it resembles the vast rage of the sea, calm on account of its immensity ; or the tumult of Niagara, which does not seem to be tumult, because it keeps pouring on forever and ever.
第 331 頁 - This pillar was set up in perpetual remembrance of the most dreadful burning of this protestant city, begun and carried on by the treachery and malice of the popish faction, in the beginning of September, in the year of our Lord 1666. In order to the carrying on their horrid plot for extirpating the protestant religion and old English liberty, and introducing popery and slavery.
第 230 頁 - Europe, who have moved great assemblies by reason and eloquence, who have put life into bronze and canvas, or who have left to posterity things so written as it shall not willingly let them die, were there mixed with all that was loveliest and gayest in the society of the most splendid of capitals.
第 467 頁 - Stall," struck sharp upon the ear, and the prow turned aside under the mighty cornices that half met over the narrow canal, where the plash of the water followed close and loud, ringing along the marble by the boat's side ; and when at last that boat darted forth upon the breadth of silver sea, across which the front of the Ducal palace, flushed with its sanguine veins, looks to the snowy dome of Our Lady of Salvation...
第 363 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 Appear'd to skirt the horizon, yet they stood Within a bowshot.
第 113 頁 - 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...