Remarks on Antiquities, Arts and Letters During an Excursion in Italy in the Years 1802 and 1803P.G. Ledouble, 1820 - 687 sidor |
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Remarks on antiquities, arts and letters during an excursion in ..., Sida 72 Joseph Forsyth Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1816 |
Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters During an Excursion in Italy, in ... Joseph Forsyth Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1816 |
Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters During an Excursion in Italy, in ... Joseph Forsyth Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1816 |
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Sida 562 - If detected in theft, a lazzaroni will ask you, with impudent surprise, how you could possibly expect a poor man to be an angel. Yet what are these wretches ? Why, men, whose persons might stand as models to a sculptor ; whose gestures strike you with the commanding energy of a savage ; whose language, gaping and broad as it is, when kindled by passion, bursts into oriental metaphor ; whose ideas, indeed, are cooped within a narrow circle but a circle in which they are invincible.
Sida 562 - ... and broad as it is, when kindled by passion, bursts into oriental metaphor ; whose ideas are cooped indeed within a narrow circle, but a circle in which they are invincible. If you attack them there, you are beaten. Their exertion of soul, their humour, their fancy, their quickness of argument, their address at flattery, their rapidity of utterance, their pantomime and grimace, none can resist but a lazarone himself.
Sida 15 - while the capital of a republic, was celebrated for its profusion of marble, its patrician towers, and its grave magnificence. It still can boast some marble churches, a marble palace, and a marble bridge. Its towers, though no longer a mark of nobility, may be traced in the walls of modernized houses. Its gravity pervades every street ; but its magnificence is now confined to one sacred corner. There...
Sida 15 - One of their litterati took pains to convince me that the German architect contrived this declination , which his Italian successors endeavoured to rectify. The Campo Santo. The portico of this vast rectangle is formed by such arcades as we find in Roman architecture. Every arch is round , and every pillar faced with pilasters ; but each arcade includes an intersection of small arches rising from slender shafts like the mullions of a Gothic window. This , however , looks like an addition foreign...
Sida 588 - is the person you want," and left him locked up in the mysterious assembly. These were men who imagined themselves equal at that time, to treat with him for the throne of England. " Dispose of me, gentlemen, as you please," said Charles ; " my life is in your power, and I therefore can stipulate for nothing. Yet give me, I entreat, one solemn promise, that if your design should succeed, the present family shall be sent safely and honourably home.
Sida 17 - ... surfaces, long extremities, raw tints, any thing but nature. As you follow the chronology of the wall, you catch perspective entering into the pictures, deepening the back-ground, and then adjusting the groups to the plans. You see the human figure first straight, or rather stretched ; then foreshortened, then enlarged : rounded, salient, free, various, expressive.
Sida 107 - So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness...
Sida 18 - ... ground, painting preserves the austerity of the Tuscan school : she rises sometimes to its energy and movement, she is no where sparing of figures, and has produced much of the singular, the terrible, the impressive ; — but nothing that is truly excellent. " All the subjects are taken from...
Sida 201 - ... every cast; for moralists, antiquaries, painters , architects , devotees , all meet here to meditate , to examine , to draw ., to measure , and to pray.
Sida 247 - The very air seems to eat up all that isjiarsh or colossal, and leaves us nothing but the sublime to feast on ; — a sublime peculiar as the genius of the immortal architect, and comprehensible only on the spot The four surrounding cupolas, though but satellites [to the majesty of this, might have crowned four elegant churches. The elliptical cupolettas are mere expedients to palliate the defect of Maderno's aisles, which depend on them for a scanty light.