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id: 14972
title: Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
author: Symonds, John Addington
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  fleshy leaves set like a cushion on cold ledges and dark places of rushes beneath; and the snow-peaks, whom we love like friends, abide senses of light, colour, form, and air, and motion, and rare tinkling I have been dreaming of far-away old German towns, with gabled houses church of great beauty, with tall Lombard bell-tower, pierced with Women in San Remo work all day, but men and boys play for the great sea rises ever so far into the sky, until the white sails hang clouds which crown its mountains shine all day, and glitter like an artist from the man who may have had like thoughts and feelings. The human form, the world around us, the works of man''s hands, music presents man''s spirit to itself through form. of San Vio come and go the whole day long--men in blue shirts with


id: 14634
title: Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
author: Symonds, John Addington
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  the great love with which he burns for all learned men, brought and a grey-green mist of rising crops and new-fledged oak-trees lies like of the court had spent a summer night in long debate on love, rising is enough to state that, earliest of all Italian cities, Milan passed Florence, like all Italian cities, owed her independence to the duel larger cities, like Milan and Florence, began to make war upon the in mind, if we seek to understand how it was that a city like Florence right, and exercised the power of life and death within the city. years the Medici loved to remember this return of Cosimo. like The Beauty of Women, The Beauty of Men, Falling in Love, The same thought of love growing like a flower receives another turn I''d make thee still more lovely than thou art: Thy love too great


id: 18845
title: Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One)
author: nan
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  at least), churches, and a great temple all in the air, and beautiful of the walls were also covered with life-like paintings, so that the beautiful buildings of the modern city, is unhappily placed. On reaching the end of a long line of narrow streets, white walls, and great churches which come rolling past me like a sea, it is a small Rome--quarries in the old time, but afterward the hiding-places of the Old Palace; it is a great mass of stone, without columns, without laid in July of that year, with all the greatness of Florence looking the great dome he was to build--and so built it, all opposition Many of the fine old palaces of Florence, you know, are built in a Campanile, high above palace roofs, arcades and church domes, its bells The Ducal Palace, which was the great work of Venice, was built


id: 19061
title: Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy, Sicily, and Greece, Part Two
author: nan
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  Senate House, round about any large building, little shops stick close, city; here, before the tombs of the great, people might well reflect wall is some forty feet high, built of stone from the Pisan hills, Stand at the bottom of the great market-place of Pompeii, and look up this watercourse were adorned with old houses and long walls, and trees, to the great Northern wall, we have a wonderful relic of those times; city that can never be ruined--for instance, the great stone quarries, that from the city below they look like the remains of two different There are very old and very beautiful little churches in Athens, remains of the ancient city are stones; for the massive square tower, The great gate of the city, a portion of the wall, and four of the projection of huge stones, looking like a square tower, on its right


id: 37947
title: Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 2 (of 2)
author: Stephens, John L.
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  "savage from the remotest time." "All the way," says an old traveller, way of getting over the ground than posting in Russia with a man of high an hour saw at a great distance the venerable city of Chioff, the North, the sacred and holy city of the Russians; and, long before all our principal men, from the time of Washington to the present day; the cross; and in a city like Chioff, where every turn presents some new We wandered a long time in this extraordinary burial-place, everywhere an old and favourite stopping-place with the Russian seigneurs when they buildings of the great Russian princes, seigneurs, and merchants, among On the last day of my stay in Moscow a great crowd drew me to the door long-sleeping beauties, when the great doors at one end were thrown the great scenes of which this little city had in his own day been the


id: 37889
title: Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 1 (of 2)
author: Stephens, John L.
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  The house was surrounded by a high stone wall, a large gate idea of an ancient Greek city, being situated in a commanding position the ruined city stands where stood Corinth of old, but it has fallen dwellings; and high above the ruined city, now as in the days when the longed for the good old days when, at the head of his hanged companions, travel in Greece; the country is mountainous, and the road or narrow eminence, Athens itself, like the other cities in Greece, presenting a second day in Athens Mr. Hill was at the door of my hotel to attend us. The Greeks went away from the coffee-house, the adjacent country; and the city contained long ranges of houses and a sensation in the ancient city of the Danai; but man little knows for travelling friend, with a young soldier who spoke a little French, came


