A Description of the Antiquities and Other Curiosities of Rome: From Personal Observation During a Visit to Italy in the Years 1818-19 ...C. & J. Rivington, 1828 - Rome (Italy) |
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Page 45 - Aequore damae. Vidimus flavum Tiberim retortis Littore Etrusco violenter undis Ire dejectum monumenta regis Templaque Vestae ; Iliae dum se nimium querenti Jactat ultorem, vagus et sinistra Labitur ripa Jove non probante u^ xorius amnis.
Page 9 - Some felt the silent stroke of mouldering age, Some hostile fury, some religious rage : Barbarian blindness, Christian zeal conspire, And Papal piety, and Gothic fire.
Page 226 - The odious stranger, disguising every circumstance of time and place, assumed the mask of a martyr, a saint, and a Christian hero; and the infamous George of Cappadocia has been transformed into the renowned St. George of England, the patron of arms, of chivalry, and of the garter.
Page 276 - Trajan extended the circuit of the walls in this quarter, to take in his own Forum, the tomb of Bibulus was not within the city : and this is the opinion of Nardini. The inscription is as follows : C. POBLICIO. LF BIBVLO. AED. PL. HONORIS VIRTVTISQVE. CAVSSA. SENATVS CONSVLTO. POPVLIQVE. IVSSV. LOCVS MONVMENTO. QVO. IPSE. POSTERIQVE EIVS.
Page 196 - Some of them have lions' heads by way of a cap, with the mane hanging down behind. Each of them carry a stick over the left shoulder, which seems to have been for the purpose of conveying their provisions. We may observe a wallet, a vessel for wine, a machine for dressing meat, &c. We know, from other accounts, that they sometimes carried sixty pounds, and food for seventeen days: they never carried less than enough for three days. Their shields are oblong, with different devices upon them.
Page 98 - Et juvenum ritu florent modo nata vigentque. Debemur morti nos nostraque ; sive receptus Terra Neptunus classes aquilonibus arcet, Regis opus ; sterilisve diu palus, aptaque remis, Vicinas urbes alit, et grave sentit aratrum ; Seu cursum mutavit iniquum frugibus amnis, Doctus iter melius ; mortalia facta peribunt : Nedum sermonum stet honos, et gratia vivax.
Page 212 - As a subject and a Christian, it was the duty of Gregory to acquiesce in the established government; but the joyful applause with which he salutes the fortune of the assassin, has sullied, with indelible disgrace, the character of the saint. The successor of the apostles might have inculcated with decent firmness the guilt of blood, and the necessity of repentance; he is content to celebrate the deliverance of the people and the fall of the oppressor; to rejoice that the piety and benignity of...
Page 46 - Sabina tulit. quae nunc acre vides, stipula tum tecta videres, et paries lento vimine textus erat. hie locus exiguus, qui sustinet atria Vestae, tune erat intonsi regia magna Numae.
Page 146 - Tu, qui secura procedis mente, parumper Siste gradum, quaeso, verbaque pauca lege. Ilia ego, quae claris fueram praelata puellis, Hoc Homonoea brevi condita sum tumulo, Cui formam Paphie, Charites tribuere decorem, Quam Pallas cunctis artibus erudiit.