This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ...dismember'd giant. The author of the Classical Tour expresses himself in a similar manner respecting the solemn grandeur, blended with an air of desolation, which overhangs this remarkable scene; but he adds to his reflections those which spring from the recollection of what a mighty share Rome has taken in the affairs ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ...dismember'd giant. The author of the Classical Tour expresses himself in a similar manner respecting the solemn grandeur, blended with an air of desolation, which overhangs this remarkable scene; but he adds to his reflections those which spring from the recollection of what a mighty share Rome has taken in the affairs of Christendom;--at first, and at many times, for good--but, in the progress of her career, for how much evil! The history of no country in the world is so fraught with interest as that of Rome, even after her decline and fall. True, she lay prostrate for some time, and seemed to be the mere crouching slave of her rude but valiant conquerors. Her ancient dignity was no more; the spirit of her people appeared to have fled for ever; amid the fallen she was the most fallen! and in the dark ages of European states, the stormiest of the clouds which veiled the horizon was that which overhung imperial Rome. In the midst A city stands, her domes and turrets crown'd With many a cross; but they that issue forth Wander like strangers, who had built among The mighty ruins, silent, spiiitless; And on the road where once we might have met Caesar and Cato, and men more than kings, We meet, none else, the pilgrim and the beggar. But while thus divested of all the grandeur which conquest or the pride of her citizens had won, while she thus lay outstretched but the lifeless corpse of Caesar's capital, a new principle of life was fomenting in her veins, and she was destined again to awe the world by her name, and with a power more irresistible than she had exercised in the very zenith of her former glory. The struggle between Paganism and Christianity had tried the hearts of more than one people; and every conquest which the latter made, imbued the nation wher...
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Acceptable. London: Robert Jennings and William Chaplin, 1831. Sm 8vo. 271pp. Illus. Fair book. Spine ends worn. Joints worn. Boards rubbed and edgeworn, corners frayed. Bookplate inside (belonging to Mendel Peterson, a pioneer of underwater archeology and former curator at the Smithsonian). Front hinge split, signature B cracked. Pages aged and foxed. Back hinge cracked. Inquire if you need further information.
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