The Ruins of Pæstum: And Other Compositions in Verse ...Cushing and Appleton, 1822 - 128 sayfa |
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Abbey Absalom ador'd Allston amid artist beautiful Beckford behold Belshazzar Belvidere beneath blush bosom bowers breast breathing bright Canova clouds Dartmouth College death deep delight dissolv'd divine dread dream e'en earth fair fate feet fix'd Florio Fonthill Fonthill Abbey forever gaz'd gloom glorious Greece grief Hadrian hast heard heart heaven heavenly hills horrour human voice immortal Indian instant involv'd Lenape light loud lov'd mighty Milton monuments mortal mother mournful Nitis Note Note 21-page o'er once Oolaita Pæstum painter Paradise Regained Parthenon Perchance picture piteous quick Saint Peter scene seem'd seiz'd shade sigh sink soft song soon sorrowing soul spar'd sublime sunk sweet tears temples thee thenon thine thou thought thy name Titian Tockwallerdon tower trembling turbing vale view'd wake wave West whelm'd wild Witch of Endor wrapt wreck wretched youth
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Sayfa 122 - And the king was much moved', and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept'; and as he went', thus he said', O my son Absalom'! my son', my son Absalom!
Sayfa 121 - I have seen them often," added he, " standing in that very attitude, and pursuing, with an intense eye, the arrow which they had just discharged from the bow.
Sayfa 120 - Europe, conducted the young Quaker to view the master-pieces of art. It was agreed that the APOLLO should be first submitted to his view, because it was the...
Sayfa 111 - Forsyth) the immemorial antiquity of these ruins, their astonishing preservation, their grandeur, their bold columnar elevation, at once massive and open, their severe simplicity of design — that simplicity in which art generally begins, and to which, after a thousand revolutions of ornaments, it again returns — taking all, I say, into one view, I do not hesitate to call these the most impressive monuments that I ever beheld on earth."* The cases in this Gallery contain books belonging to the...
Sayfa 120 - Rome, and, consequently, the best calculated to produce that effect which the company were anxious to witness. The statue then stood in a case, enclosed with doors, which could be so opened as to disclose it at once to full view. West was placed in the situation where it was seen to the most advantage, and the spectators arranged themselves on each side.
Sayfa 120 - ... at once to full view. West was placed in the situation where it was seen to the most advantage, and the spectators arranged themselves on each side. When the keeper threw open the doors, the Artist felt himself surprised with a sudden recollection altogether different from the gratification which he had expected; and without being aware of the force of what he said, exclaimed, "My God, how like it is to a young Mohawk warrior.
Sayfa 117 - Somersetshire as far as the Towers of Glastonbury. On one occasion, whilst the Tower was rearing its lofty crest towards Heaven, an elevated part of it caught fire, and was destroyed. The sight was sublime ; it was a spectacle, it is said, which the owner of the mansion enjoyed with as much composure as if the flames had not been devouring what it would have cost a fortune to repair.
Sayfa 120 - This occasioned inquiries respecting the youth ; and the Italians concluding that, as he was an American, he must, of course, have received the education of a savage, became curious to witness the effect which the works of art in the Belvidere and Vatican would produce on him. The whole company, which consisted of the principal Roman nobility, and strangers of distinction then in Rome, were interested in the event ; and it was arranged in the course of the evening that on the following morning they...
Sayfa 118 - ... stood still. At another, even the royal works of St. George's chapel, Windsor, were abandoned, that 460 men might be employed night and day on Fonthill abbey. These men relieved each other by regular watches, and during the longest and darkest nights of winter, the astonished traveller might seethe tower rising under their hands, the trowel and torch being associated for that purpose.
Sayfa 63 - I saw the infant cherub, — soft it lay, As it was wont, within its cradle, now Decked with sweet smiling flowers. A sight so strange Filled my young breast with wonder, and I gazed Upon the babe the more. I thought it slept...