Two Years in the Pontifical Zouaves: A Narrative of Travel, Residence, and Experience in the Roman StatesR. Washbourne, 1871 - 301 Seiten |
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Acquapendente amongst ancient Antibes arms army arrived artillery attack Bagnorea barracks Basilica baths battalion battle of Mentana beautiful bishops Blessed camp Captain Cardinal catacombs Ceccano chapel Charette choir Christian church of St Civita Castellana Civita Vecchia Colonel column command commenced comrades corps corvée depôt dome dragoons Dufournel duty eight enemy English Zouaves Eternal City Feast feet fire French friends Garibaldians gate gendarmes guard high altar hill Holy Father honour Italian Lady lake lieutenant Lord magnificent marble martyrs Mass Mentana miles Monte Libretti Monte Rotondo Montefiascone morning mountains Nerola night o'clock officers paintings passed Peter's Piazza picket Pius Pope Porta Porta Pia prisoners Pudentiana Quelen relics road Rocca di Papa Roman Rome Ronciglione ruins Saint Santa sergeant side soldiers splendid Swiss Tivoli tomb took town troops Valentano Vatican victory village vineyards visited Viterbo walls wine wounded Zouaves
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Seite 197 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Seite 206 - Simple, erect, severe, austere, sublime — Shrine of all saints and temple of all gods, From Jove to Jesus — spared and blest by time ; Looking tranquillity, while falls or nods Arch, empire, each thing round thee, and man plods His way through thorns to ashes — glorious dome ! Shalt thou not last ? Time's scythe and tyrant's rods Shiver upon thee — sanctuary and home Of art and piety — Pantheon ! — pride of Rome ! CXLVII.
Seite 168 - There is the moral of all human tales; 'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom, and then Glory — when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption, — barbarism at last. And History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page...
Seite 86 - 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.
Seite 85 - But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone — with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook His former city, what could be, Of earthly structures, in His honour piled, Of a sublimer aspect? Majesty, Power, Glory, Strength, and Beauty, all are aisled In this eternal ark of worship undefiled.
Seite 194 - But when the rising moon begins to climb Its topmost arch, and gently pauses there; When the stars twinkle through the loops of time, And the low night-breeze waves along the air The...
Seite 168 - In fragments, choked up vaults, and frescos steep'd In subterranean damps where the owl peep'd, Deeming it midnight: — Temples, baths, or halls ? Pronounce who can; for all that Learning reap'd From her research hath been, that these are walls...
Seite 192 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; " When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ; " And when Rome falls — the World." From our own land Thus spake the pilgrims o'er this mighty wall In Saxon times, which we are wont to call Ancient ; and these three mortal things are still On their foundations, and...
Seite 131 - Going, therefore, teach ye all nations : baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And behold I am with you all days even to the consummation of the world.
Seite 85 - But lo ! the dome — the vast and wondrous dome, To which Diana's marvel was a cell — Christ's mighty shrine above his martyr's tomb ! I have beheld the Ephesian's miracle; — Its columns strew the wilderness, and dwell The hyaena and the jackal in their shade; I have beheld Sophia's bright roofs swell Their glittering mass i...