Tuscan CitiesTicknor, 1885 - 251 من الصفحات |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
admirable Amidei ancient Arno artist beautiful brother Buondelmonte cathedral century chapel church cloisters Corso Donati Cosimo Dante death delightful Donati door Duomo edifice Emperor exile exquisite eyes fact famous fancy Fiesole Florence Florentine frescos garden gates Ghibelline girls Gothic grand duke Guelph hand head heart history of Pisa hundred Italian Italy lady landscape lived look Lorenzo Lucca Lucchese Medici medieval Mino da Fiesole monks never noble once palace Palazzo Communale Palazzo Vecchio Paolo Orsini peasants perhaps piazza picturesque Pisa Pisan Pistoja pleasure Podestà political Ponte Vecchio poor Pope Porta Prato priest reader Rome rooms round sacristan Santa Maria Novella Savonarola seems showed siege Siena Sienese sort soul Stenterello stood streets table d'hôte thing took tourist tower town Tuscany Ugolino villa walls whole wonder young
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 244 - Written with all the exquisite literary skill of which Mr. Howells is so thoroughly a master, and every page sparkles with bright touches of dainty humor.
الصفحة 162 - When a man sees the prodigious pains and expense that our forefathers have been at in these barbarous buildings, one cannot but fancy to himself what miracles of architecture they would have left us, had they been only instructed in the right way...
الصفحة 129 - It was in the clearness that follows the twilight when, after the sudden descent of a vaulted passage, I stood in the piazza and saw the Tower of the Mangia leap like a rocket into the starlit air. After all, that does not say it : you must suppose a perfect silence, through which this exquisite shaft forever soars. When once you have seen the Mangia, all other towers, obelisks, and columns are tame and vulgar and earthrooted ; that seems to quit the ground, to be not a monument but a flight.
الصفحة 17 - ... personally experienced, only on the spot where it was lived. This seems to me the prime use of travel; and to create the reader a partner in the enterprise and a sharer in its realization seems the sole excuse for books of travel, now when modern facilities have abolished hardship and danger and adventure and nothing is more likely to happen to one in Florence than in...
الصفحة 18 - SUN. often surprise himself in the possession of a genuine emotion ; at moments the illustrious or pathetic figures of other days will seem to walk before him unmocked by the grotesque and burlesquing shadows we all cast while in the flesh. I will not swear it, but it would take little to persuade me that I had vanishing glimpses of many of these figures in Florence. One of the advantages of this method is that you have your historical personages in a sort of picturesque contemporaneity with one...
الصفحة 162 - ... that nothing in the world can make a prettier show to those who prefer false beauties, and affected ornaments, to a noble and majestic simplicity.
الصفحة 70 - Serried ranks of seraphs, peacock-plumed, and kneeling in prayer ; garlands of roses everywhere ; contemporary Florentines on horseback, riding in the train of the three Magi kings under the low boughs of trees ; and birds fluttering through the dim, mellow atmosphere; the whole dense and close in an opulent yet delicate fancifulness of design.
الصفحة 162 - ... present, and the riches of the people much more at the disposal of the priests, there was so much money consumed on these Gothic cathedrals as would have finished a greater variety of noble buildiugs than have been raised either before or since that time.
الصفحة 98 - ... his terrible gloom; and in this they found, not comfort, not alleviation, which time alone can give, but the anaesthesis of a freezing horror. Those masked and trailing sable figures, sweeping through the wide and narrow ways by night to the wild, long rhythm of their...
الصفحة 31 - I say truly that the spirit of life which dwelleth in the most secret chamber of the heart began to tremble with such violence that it appeared fearfully in the least pulses, and trembling said these words : Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur mihi.