Slight Reminiscences of the Rhine, Switzerland, and a Corner of Italy, المجلد 1Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1835 |
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agreeable amongst Auxonne Baveno beautiful bright carriage chapel character charming church cold coloring crowd dark decorated delicious Dijon dirty door dress eyes fancy feeling flowers French gardens Genoese green Guercino hanging head heart heaven hills imagination Isola Isola Bella ISOLA MADRE Italian Italy ladies Lago Maggiore lake lake of Lucerne Lausanne light look Lucerne magnificent marble melancholy MILAN mind Montbard morning mountains nature Neufchatel never night Omegna Orta palaces pale Paris passed Paul Veronese peasants perhaps picture poor priest recollections rich road round ROUTE TO GENOA scene scenery seems seen shade Simplon Sion snow soft sometimes soul sound splendor spread streets sweet Swiss Switzerland taste tender terraces things thought throwing to-day town travellers tree throwing trees UNTERSEEN valley Vevay village Voghera walk wild window winter woman women woods
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الصفحة 13 - A maiden never bold ; Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion Blush'd at herself...
الصفحة 9 - Europe, — singing like angels, and talking (as far as voice is concerned) like traffickers in fish or charcoal, the ear knows not whether it seizes the notes of a prima donna, or of a macaroni vender. Last night, a party from Milan, (capital gentry, our hostess said,) who were either convivial or quarrelsome till an unreasonably late hour, put sleep quite out of the question, — such shouting, — such screaming, — a dozen voices raised together, and sustained with incredible power of lungs,...
الصفحة 39 - ... least heavily laden of the file ; of peasant girls (very fine creatures sometimes), with natural flowers placed carelessly in the hair, and a dash of powder occasionally thrown in with them ; and nearer to the town, plying carriages with three windows at each side, full of gay girls fanning themselves violently in their charming white veils, which make even the plain look pretty, and swarthy men less smartly dressed than their brisk companions ; boys playing at mora, soldiers looking on, and...
الصفحة 17 - How strongly, as we advance in life, is the vanity of those things which we most prized in youth made manifest ; what importance have we given to untried joys and distinctions, and even to the lightest trifles, — a little while, and the most solid amongst them seem like old toys not worth playing with. We find that feelings, opinions, modes, and even hearts change, — every thing but nature ; she alone is immutable, and for that reason her spells are often the last broken. We confide in her promises,...
الصفحة 57 - ... knew a clever man who greatly admired Caravaggio, and used to place him on a line with Michael Angelo. Caravaggio too was a genius, one full of strong, broadshouldered ideas ; a perturbed and gloomy spirit, throwing his dark soul out upon his canvass with startling effect ; but he did not think or feel like Michael Angelo, his genius was not sublime ; he painted like a coarse bad man, of monstrous capacity, but not like one who had unsealed the book of judgment, or lifted up the Pantheon and...
الصفحة 57 - In the chapel is a Pieta (basso relievo) by Michael Angelo, full of beauty and expression. This powerful master was not often tender, but he could be so ; the proof is here. I once knew a clever man who greatly admired Caravaggio, and used to place him on a line with Michael Angelo. Caravaggio, too, was a genius, one full of strong, broad-shouldered ideas ; a perturbed and gloomy spirit, throwing his dark soul out upon his canvass with startling effect ; but he did not think or feel like Michael...