Rome, Ancient and Modern: And Its Environs, Volume 1author, 1842 |
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adorned altar Anastasius Bibliothecarius ancient angels Apostles arch Aventine bajocchi Baptist bas relief basilic beautiful beneath Benedict Bernini bishop called Canons Card Cardinals Carlo Carlo Maderno Carlo Maratta ceiling centre century chapel choir Christian church Clement Coelian columns Constantine cornice corridor cross cupola decorated Dioclesian dome door edifice entered entrance erected Esquiline executed extremity feast feet four fresco front gate giallo gilt bronze Greg Gregory Holy inches inscription interior Janiculum Jerom John Lateran left aisle Madonna marble Maria martyr Michelangelo Monte monument mosaic nave niche opposite opus Alexandrinum painting palace Palatine Papal piazza Pietro pilasters pillars Pius pomoerium Pontiff Pope porphyry porta portico portrait present Quirinal repaired representing rere Roman Rome Romulus sacred sacristy Saint sculptured side Sixtine Sixtus spandrils statue stood temple Tiber tion titular titular church tomb transept travertin tribune Varro Vatican VIII Virgin and Child walls
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Page 312 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
Page xvi - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona...
Page 75 - She saw the commencement of all the governments and of all the ecclesiastical establishments that now exist in the world ; and we feel no assurance that she is not destined to see the end of them all.
Page 295 - Enter : its grandeur overwhelms thee not ; And why ? it is not lessened ; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal, and can only find A fit abode wherein appear enshrined Thy hopes of immortality ; and thou Shalt one day, if found worthy, so denned, See thy God face to face, as thou dost now His Holy of Holies, nor be blasted by his brow.
Page 74 - The republic of Venice came next in antiquity. But the republic of Venice was modern when compared with the Papacy ; and the republic of Venice is gone, and the Papacy remains. The Papacy remains, not in decay, not a mere antique, but full of life and youthful vigour.
Page 75 - Her spiritual ascendency extends over the vast countries which lie between the plains of the Missouri and Cape Horn, countries which, a century hence, may not improbably contain a population as large as that which now inhabits Europe.
Page x - Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, ye Whose agonies are evils of a day ! — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay.
Page 75 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page 75 - Church is still sending forth to the farthest ends of the world missionaries as zealous as those who landed in Kent with Augustin, and still confronting hostile kings with the same spirit with which she confronted Attila. The number of her children is greater than in any former age. Her acquisitions in the New World have more than compensated her for what she has lost in the Old.
Page xii - And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. 24. And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.