 Ravenna Fantica, Firense la bella, Roma la santa. Some of these I have seen, and others not ; and those that I have not seen seem to me the finest. Does not this list convey as good an idea of these places as one can well have ? It selects some one distinct...  Notes of a Journey Through France and Italy - Page 231by William Hazlitt - 1826 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1826 - 568 pages
...dexterously planted up and down to atone for the sins of dulness and monotony that overspread his pages. ' Words may be said, after all, to be the finest things...themselves are but a lower species of words, exhibiting the grossuess and details of matter !' . . . ' The Apollo Belvidcre is positively bad, a theatrical coxcomb... | |
 | 1826 - 570 pages
...dexterously planted up and down to atone for the sins of dulness and monotony that overspread his pages. ' Words may be said, after all, to be the finest things...world. Things themselves are but a lower species of wordu, exhibiting the grossucss and details of matter !' ... v ' The Apollo Belvidere is positively... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 544 pages
...the Italian Grammar are told to get by heart — Genoa la superba, Bologna la dotta, Ravenna Fantica, Firense la bella, Roma la santa. Some of these I have...theory, I must add, the Alps are also a proud exception. CHAPTER XVI WE left Bologna on our way to Florence in the afternoon, that we might cross the Apenines... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 522 pages
...by heart — Genoa la supcrba, Bologna la dotta, Ravenna Fantica, Firense la bella, Roma la lanta. Some of these I have seen, and others not ; and those...theory, I must add, the Alps are also a proud exception. CHAPTER XVI WE left Bologna on our way to Florence in the afternoon, that we might cross the Apenines... | |
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