The Eternal City: Rome, Its Religions, Monuments, Literature and Art, Volume 1Estes and Lauriat, 1896 - Rome |
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altar ancient Rome Apollo arch archæologists architecture artists Augustus basilica baths beautiful believed bronze built burial burial-places buried Caligula called Campus Martius Capitoline Capitoline Hill Catacombs celebrated cemeteries ceremonies chapel Christ Christian church Circus Circus Maximus columns Commendatore Lanciani Constantine Damasus death decorated dedicated deities Diocletian discovered Domitian earliest edifices Emperor Empire erected excavations existed faith feet Forum fourth century frequently funeral goddess gods gold Greek Hadrian honour hundred imperial important inscription interesting Julius Cæsar Jupiter known later Lateran magnificent marble martyrs Maximus mosaics Nero original ornamented pagan paintings palace Palatine persecution Pliny Pontifex Maximus Pope Pope Damasus Porta porticoes portion priests religion religious remains restored Roman ruins sacred sacrifices Saint Peter sarcophagus says Senate Septimius Severus Severus shrine slaves splendid statues temple theatre Theodosius thermæ thousand Tiber tion tomb Trajan Vatican vaults Vespasian Vestals walls worship
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Page 294 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Page 249 - 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 tyrants...
Page 396 - This poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, among the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring in that divinest climate, and the new life with which it drenches the spirits even to intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama.
Page 44 - To see it crumbling there, an inch a year; its walls and arches overgrown with green; its corridors open to the day; the long grass growing in its porches ; young trees of yesterday, springing up on its...
Page 45 - ... build their nests within its chinks and crannies ; to see its Pit of Fight filled up with earth, and the peaceful Cross planted in the centre ; to climb into its upper halls, and look down on ruin, ruin, ruin, all about it ; the triumphal arches of...
Page 271 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new ? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Page 94 - And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters, he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda.
Page 44 - ... to be, with thousands of eager faces staring down into the arena, and such a whirl of strife, and blood, and dust, going on there, as no language can describe. Its solitude, its awful beauty, and its utter desolation, strike upon the stranger the next moment, like a softened sorrow...
Page 45 - Caesars; the temples of the old religion, fallen down and gone; is to see the ghost of old Rome, wicked, wonderful old city, haunting the very ground on which its people trod. It is the most impressive, the most stately, the most solemn, grand, majestic, mournful sight, conceivable.
Page 44 - M2 — actually in passing in — they who will, may have the whole great pile before them, as it used to be, with thousands of eager faces staring down into the arena, and such a whirl of strife, and blood, and dust going on there, as no language can describe. Its solitude, its awful beauty, and...