Titan: A Romance, Volume 2

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Ticknor and Fields, 1864
 

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Page 521 - Scouring of the White Horse. Or, the Long Vacation Ramble of a London Clerk. By the Author of
Page 194 - And overhead! the eye-socket of the light and of the sky gleamed down, and the distant rack of clouds seemed to touch the lofty arch over which it shot along! And round about them stood nothing but the temple-bearers, the columns! The temple of all gods endured and concealed the diminutive altars of the later ones. Gaspard questioned Albano about his impressions. He said he preferred the larger church of Saint Peter.
Page 195 - The Corinthian columns might be higher." The Counsellor of Arts said, "After all, he knew nothing more like this fine hemisphere than a much smaller one, which he had found in Herculaneum, moulded in ashes — of the bosom of a fair fugitive.
Page 190 - ... would wish here an iron heart, for fate has an iron hand ! " Dian, who nowhere stayed more reluctantly than upon such tragic cliffs hanging over, as it were, into the sea of eternity, almost leaped off from them with a joke ; like the Greeks, he blended dances with tragedy! " Many a thing is preserved here, friend! " said he; " in Adrian's church yonder they will still show you the bones of the three men that walked in the fire.
Page 198 - The Princess went to break a laurel-twig and pluck a blooming wall-flower. Albano sank away into musing : the autumnal wind of the past swept over the stubble. On this holy eminence he saw the constellations, Rome's green hills, the glimmering city, the Pyramid of Cestius ; but all became Past, and on the twelve hills dwelt, as upon graves, the lofty old spirits, and looked sternly into the age, as if they were still its kings and judges. "This to remember the place and time!
Page 193 - The sublime also here lies only in the brain, for the whole church stands, after all, in something greater, namely, in Rome, and under the heavens; in the presence of which latter we certainly should not feel anything." He also complained that " the place for the sublime in his head was very much narrowed by the innumerable volutes and monuments which the temple shut up therein at the same time with itself.
Page 188 - ... rays, upon the still battlefield over which the winter of time had passed without bringing after it a spring; the fiery soul of the world had flown up, and the cold, crumbling giant lay around; torn asunder were the gigantic spokes of the main-wheel, which once the very stream of ages drove. And in addition to all this, the moon shed down her light like eating silver-water upon the naked columns, and would fain have dissolved the Coliseum and the temples and all into their own shadows! Then Albano...

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