 It is evening, and scarcely a breeze ruffles the calm bosom of the beautiful bay, which resembles a vast lake, reflecting on its glassy surface the bright sky above, and the thousand stars with which it is studded. Naples, with its white colonnades seen...  The Idler in Italy - Page 222by Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1842 - 986 pages
...reflecting on its glassy surface the bright sky above, and the thousand stars with which it is studded. Naples, with its white colonnades, seen amidst the dark foliage of its terraced gardens, rises like an amphitheatre; lights stream from the windows and fall on the sea beneath like columns... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1855 - 550 pages
...reflecting on its glassy surface the bright sky above, and the thousand stars with which it is studded. Naples, with its white colonnades seen amidst the dark foliage of its terraced gardens, rises like an amphitheatre : lights stream from the windows, and fall on the sea beneath like columns... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1855 - 512 pages
...reflecting on its glassy surface the bright sky above, and the thousand stars with which it is studded. Naples, with its white colonnades seen amidst the dark foliage of its terraced gardens, rises like an amphitheatre : lights stream from the windows and fall on the sea beneath like columns... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 416 pages
...reflecting on its glassy surface the bright sky above, and the thousand stars with which it is studded. Naples, with its white colonnades seen amidst the dark foliage of its terraced gardens, rises like an amphitheatre : lights stream from the windows, and fall on the sea beneath like columns... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 412 pages
...reflecting on its glassy surface the bright sky above, and the thousand stars with which it is studded. Naples, with its white colonnades seen amidst the dark foliage of its terraced gardens, rises like an amphitheatre : lights stream from the windows, and fall on the sea beneath like columns... | |
 | Henry Neville Maugham - 1903 - 484 pages
...running rather than walking. — Goethe. A WATER-PARTY It was a sort of fete offered to Marie-Louise, by the King of Naples, and took place on the water....St. Angelo, and the coast of Sorrento fading into the distance ; and on the left, the vine-crowned height of the Vomero with its palaces and villas,... | |
 | 1834 - 298 pages
...its glassy surface the bright sky above, and the thousand glittering stars with which it is studded. Naples, with its white colonnades, seen amidst the dark foliage of its terraced gardens, rises like an amphitheatre ; lights stream from the windows, and fall on the sea beneath like columns... | |
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