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Joachim Du Bellay's Les Antiquités de Rome.

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...Translator’s note: The Ruins Of Rome Divine spirits, whose powdery ashes lie The Babylonian praises his high wall, Newcomer, who looks for Rome in Rome,She, who with her head the stars surpassed, He who would see the vast power of Nature, As in her cha...

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...The Lays of Ancient Rome comprise four narrative poems comprised by Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay: recalling popular episodes from Roman historical-legends that were strongly moral in tone: exemplifying Roman virtue against Latine perfidy. The ...

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... gave me,’ ‘A speechless sadness’ ‘There is no need for words’ Silentium.. The Shell ‘Orioles are in the woods, and in tonic verse’ ‘Nature –is Rome, and mirrored there.’ ‘Insomnia. Homer. Taut canvas.’ ‘Herds of horses whinny and graze’ ‘In transparent Petropolis we will leave only bone’ ‘From a Fearful height, a wandering light’ ‘Brothers, let us glorify freed...

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...help a life partner. Have the opportunity to visit some of the beauties of Sicily,as the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento and Siracusa, but also in Rome with the splendid Vatican city and other monuments and places, Florence with its famous cathedral and its museums, Pisa with its leaning tower and Venice with its gondolas, the Piazza San Marco, the Doge's Palace and its...

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...Joubert Third Letter to Monsieur Joubert Tivoli, and Hadrian’s Villa The Vatican The Capitoline Museum The Doria Gallery A Moonlit Walk through Rome A Trip To Naples Pozzuoli and Solfatara Vesuvius. Patria, or Liternum Baiae Herculaneum, Portici, Pompeii To Monsieur de Fontanes...

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...Satire I A Justification for Satire Satire II Effeminate Rome Satire III Fleeing Rome Satire IV Mock-Epic Satire V Patron and Client Satire VI Don’t Marry Satire VII Patronage Satire VIII Rely On Your Own Worth Satire IX Patrons Again: A Dialogue Satire X The ...

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...of my heart in company of all saints. I would give my days for her as far as Rome. To suffer the pain of sweet torment and be put to death by flesh. I...

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...TAVLJAJU MLADIĆI U MASKIRNIM PLAVIM UNIFORMAMA. IZBACUJU, ZLURADO, UZ REĈENICU «MOŢDA ĆE BITI VIŠE MESTA» - ROME, NEOBRIJANE MUŠKARCE. MOJA LIĈNA KA...

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...Excerpt: Why Mrs. General Talboys first made up her mind to pass the winter of 1859 at Rome I never clearly understood. To myself she explained her purposes, soon after her arrival at the Eternal City, by declaring, in her own enthusiastic manner, that she was inspired by a burning desire to drink fresh at the ...

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... Mrs. General Talboys first made up her mind to pass the winter of 1859 at Rome I never clearly understood. To myself she explained her purposes, soon... ...e this as it may, in November, 1859, Mrs. Talboys came among us English at Rome, and soon succeeded in obtaining for herself a comfortable footing in ... ...onds whatever. The General’s honour was quite safe when he sent her off to Rome by herself; and he no doubt knew that it was so. Illi robur et aes tri... ...ll allowed them- selves to be enslaved. We had at that time a small set at Rome, consisting chiefly of English and Americans, who habitually met at ea... ...lattered by them also. If so, he should have been happy, for the ladies at Rome at that time made much of Conrad Mackinnon. Of Mrs. Mackinnon no one d... ...Mackinnon do his roaring. He was certainly much given to what the world at Rome called flirting, but this did not in the least annoy her. She was twen... ... that O’Brien separated himself from a throng of others such as himself in Rome, walked solitary during the days, and threw himself at the feet of var... ...e habit of seeing each other daily, and of visiting together the haunts in Rome which are best loved by art-loving strangers; but here, in this draw- ... ...erhaps something more than that,” said Mackinnon. “He has a family here in Rome, you know; two little ba- bies.” “I know it, I know it,” she said. “Ch...

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...This book of poems, written between 42 en 39 BC, was a bestseller in ancient Rome, and still holds a fascination today. Held to be divinely inspired not only by the Romans themselves, but by the Medieval Catholic church, The Eclogues is one of the most beloved collections of Latin short poetry. (Summa...

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... everything like a warm wind. After three days here she went from Bangkok to Rome. Her world was that other world, that etheral world consisting of t... ...u very much. I know I do." Then to MF she said, "So you guys are taking in Rome?" "Yes and other bits here and there. We were in Venice a couple day... ...the next. So...I've decided that I and this big guy will just stay here in Rome for the rest of the time. Are you here all by yourself?" "Yes, here ... .... Tell me about yourself. There's got to be a lady friend somewhere here in Rome." "No." He smiled bashfully. " Just here with my son." She guessed... ...anetarium, the coliseum, and then a small amusement park on the outskirts of Rome. After Ferris wheel and a roller coaster rides she and they were ad... ...in a feeling of love. These relationships conceived in the art and beauty of Rome were of friendship and a shared exploration. In both how she conceiv... ...n to four star hotelsﾁNjust seen photographs of Rick staying in one while in Rome." "I want to go. You need to let me go! But there will be no vagab... ...monious, like now as evident by the cheap hotel room, and thriftless like in Rome, all at the wrong times. But for a year now she accepted the inevita... ...vironmental spark of love (in her case going with him through art museums in Rome or witnessing his bold reflection come into the bathroom of her hote...

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...terary Works 1798-1799 Book XII England, and Return to France 1799-1800 Book XIII Literary Fame 1800-1803 Book XIV Travels in the Midi, Napoleon, Rome 1802-1803 Book XV The Death of Madame de Beaumont, Rome 1803-1804 Book XVI The Execution of the Duc d’Enghien 1804 Book XVII Travels in the Auvergne, The Death of Lucile 1804-1805 Book XVIII The Levant, Armand, Les...

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...rous, ‘Si je monte au Palais, je n’y trouve qu’orgueil,’ If I climb to the Palace, I find only pride, ‘Veux-tu savoir, Duthier, quelle chose c’est Rome?’ Duthier: would you know what this Rome is? ‘D’où vient cela, Mauny, que tant plus on s’efforce’ How is it, Mauny, that the more one tries ‘Qui choisira pour moi la racine d’Ulysse?’ Who’ll search out Odysseus’ roo...

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... write until after the great ruins effected by the siege; that he wrote at Rome, far removed from the criticism of those survivors who could have expo... ...ory. Why there was none, why no Gothic, why no Parthian history, it is for Rome to explain. 16 Thomas de Quincey We tax ourselves, and are taxed by o... ...fe had been really blighted, or its golden pleasures exhausted? Had I seen Rome? Had I read Milton? Had I heard Mozart? No. St. Peter’s, the “Paradise... ... or south latitude it lay, I concealed for a time as rigorously as ancient Rome through every century concealed her real name. 12 The object in this ... ...ighty life through a thou- sand years upon the vast theaters of Athens and Rome, I retraced the horrors, not prophetic but memorial, with which I myse... ...her was at one time disposed to treat as Remus treated the infant walls of Rome; but, on maturer thoughts, having built a fleet of rafts, he treated i... ...o die standing, meaning that Caesar, as the man who repre- sented almighty Rome, should face the last enemy as the first in an attitude of unconquerab... ...ean? What is it that he promises? A memoir upon the eminent grammarians of Rome? Not at all, but a memoir upon the distinguished literati of Rome. Gra... ...eant before us, the two military em- pires then coexisting, of Parthia and Rome, and finally (un- der another idea of political greatness) the intelle...

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...isiting a point already seen, he could perceive no harm in his plan. As to Rome, he cared less to go there, inasmuch as everybody went there; and he ... ...the intermediate country, which had no fascination for him, and arrived at Rome on the last day of November, entering by the Porta del Popolo, and put... ...ould not fail to be profoundly impressed in the pres- ence of the ruins at Rome, and he has enshrined in a mag- 15 Montaigne nificent passage of the ... ...rnal the feelings of the moment: “He said,” writes his secretary, “that at Rome one saw noth- ing but the sky under which she had been built, and the ... ...o the actual senses: that those who said they beheld at least the ruins of Rome, went too far, for the ruins of so gigantic a structure must have comm... ...West, 22 March 1740 (Cunningham’s edit. i. 41), where Walpole, speaking of Rome, describes her very ruins as ruined.]—As to those small fragments whic... ...ul and worthiest of preserva- tion; and that the buildings of this bastard Rome, raised upon the ancient productions, although they might excite the a... ...tical as Montaigne shows himself in his books, yet dur- ing his sojourn at Rome he manifested a great regard for religion. He solicited the honour of ... ...on. He met at San Sisto a Muscovite ambassador, the second who had come to Rome since the pontificate of Paul III. This minister had despatches from h...

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...e, the second Alexander the Great, and the third Julius Caesar, Emperor of Rome, of whom the histories be well known and had. And as for the three Jew... ...hat horse and knight fell down. CHAPTER XXIII How twelve knights came from Rome and asked truage for this land of Arthur, and how Arthur fought with a... ...court twelve knights, and were aged men, and they came from the Emperor of Rome, and they asked of Arthur truage for this realm, other else the em- pe...

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...he Holy Father himself shall absolve you of your oath. I will surely go to Rome, I will entreat all the powers of earth; if God could come down from h... ...nce to grow a new head. If they lack the strength for this, they perish as Rome perished, and Venice, and so many other states. This distinction betwe...

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...Romish Church; she rose to heaven with the glad tri- umphant “Te Deums” of Rome; she drew her comfort and her vital strength from the rites of the sam... ...th, what is the grandest sight to which we ever treat them? St. Peter’s at Rome, do you fancy, on Easter Sunday, or Luxor, or perhaps the Himalayas? O...

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...brought with her Leon de Lora to show him Italy, and had gone on as far as Rome that he might see the Campagna. She had come by Simplon, and was retur...

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...ions. Many years ago, when I was looking over Piranesi’s, An- tiquities of Rome, Mr. Coleridge, who was standing by, de- scribed to me a set of plates...