Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home, Volume 2Harper & brothers, 1841 - Europe |
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Page 53 - We found Madame T. at our hotel. full of cordiality, animation, and kindness. She had come in from her villa at Deeio to keep her appointment with us. She first took us to her town-house, which has recently undergone a remodelling and refurnishing, and a most luxurious establishment it is. The perfection of Parisian taste, the masterly workmanship of England, and the beautiful art of her own country, have all been made subservient to wealth almost unlimited. It seemed to me like the realization of...
Page 162 - The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
Page 10 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so. crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white...
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Page 192 - I would advise no American to come to Italy who has not strong domestic affections, and close domestic ties, or some absorbing and worthy pursuit at home. Without these strong bonds to his country, he may feel, when he returns there, as one does who attempts to read a treatise on political economy after being lost in the interest of a captivating romance.
Page 86 - ТЫ« is the richest part of Lombardy, covered with mulberries and vines, and thronging with, as 'it appears to us, a healthy population, full fed from the cradle to the grave. Th'e children are stout and rosy, with masses of bright curling hair. The women are tall and well developed, and the old people so old that one would think they must themselves have forgotten they were ever young — the last thing they do forget. But they are never " rocked in the cradle of reposing age' — never cease...
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Page 21 - Pellico resides, as the librarian ot a certain Marchesa. "We wrote him a note." says Miss Sedgwick, "and asked the privilege of paying our respects to him, on the ground of being able to give him news of his friends, the exiles who were his companions at Spielberg. He came immediately to us. He is of low stature and slightly made, a sort of etching of a man, with delicate and symmetrical features — just body enough to gravitate, and keep the spirit from its natural upward flight, — a more shadowy...
Page 96 - Near the water stand two granite columns, one surmounted by the lion of St. Mark, the other by the statue of a saint.