...that does not say it ; you must suppose a perfect silence, through which this exquisite shaft for ever soars. When once you have seen the Mangia, all other...quit the ground, to be not a monument but a flight " — WD HOWELLS, Tuscan Cities. Italy (1348), and for a time obliterated many of the social landmarks....

...popular figure resembling the Roman Pasquino, p. 225) ; fine view from the top (412 steps ; 1/2 ft.). 'When once you have seen the Mangia, all other towers,...quit the ground, to be not a monument but a flight' ( WD Howelli). At the foot of the tower is the Cappella di Piazza, in the form of a loggia, begun after...

...popular figure resembling the Roman Pasquino; p. 259); fine view from the top (412 steps; */2 fr')' 'When once you have seen the Mangia, all other towers,...quit the ground, to be not a monument but a flight' (WD Howells). At the foot of the tower is the Cappella di Piazza, in the form of a loggia, begun in...

...popular figure resembling the Koman Pasquino ; p. 259) ; fine view from the top (412 steps ; J/2 fr.). 'When once you have seen the Mangia, all other towers,...quit the ground, to be not a monument but a flight' (WD Howells). At the foot of the tower is the Cappella di Piazza, in the form of a loggia, begun in...

...proportion. WD Howells has said the true word for it : " When once you have seen the Mangia" he writes, " all other towers, obelisks, and columns are tame and...the ground, to be not a monument, but a flight." The Cathedral as it is, and as it might have been, tells of Siena being no mean city ; the facade decoration...

...anyone has ever written a more vivid description of the beautiful tower in Siena than Mr. Howells: It was in the clearness that follows the twilight...monument but a flight. The crescent of the young moon . . . looked sparely over the battlements of the Palazzo Communale, from which the tower sprang, upon...

...in Siena. Adjacent rises the slender tower, "Del Mangia," one of the finest in Italy. Howells says, "when once you have seen the Mangia, all other towers, obelisks and columns are tame and vulgar and earth rooted." The Cathedral, occupying the highest ground in the city, covers the site of the Temple...

...anyone has ever written a more vivid description of the beautiful tower in Siena than Mr. Howells: It was in the clearness that follows the twilight...are tame and vulgar and earth-rooted; that seems to 169 quit the ground, to be not a monument but a flight. The crescent of the young moon . . . looked...

...centuries old. The tower is regarded as one of the finest in Europe. William Dean Howclls says of it: "When once you have seen the Mangia, all other towers,...the ground, to be, not a monument, but a flight." 339 valed for two solid weeks in joyous abandon, and named their new treasure the Fonte Caia ! It was...

...anyone has ever written a more vivid description of the beautiful tower in Siena than Mr. Howells: It was in the clearness that follows the twilight...monument but a flight. The crescent of the young moon . . . looked sparely over the battlements of the Palazzo Communale, from which the tower sprang, upon...