With Shelley in Italy : being a selection of the poems and letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley which have to do with his life in Italy from 1818 to 1822 . I suppose the emperor stole these columns, which seemnot at all to belong to the place they occupy. Within thecity, near the church of San Vitale, there is to be seen thetomb of the Empress Galla Placidia, daughter of Theo-dosius the Great, together with those of her husband Con-stantius, her brother Honorius, and her son Yalentinian —all emperors. The tombs are massy cases of marble,adorned with rude and tasteless sculpture of lambs, andother C
With Shelley in Italy : being a selection of the poems and letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley which have to do with his life in Italy from 1818 to 1822 . I suppose the emperor stole these columns, which seemnot at all to belong to the place they occupy. Within thecity, near the church of San Vitale, there is to be seen thetomb of the Empress Galla Placidia, daughter of Theo-dosius the Great, together with those of her husband Con-stantius, her brother Honorius, and her son Yalentinian —all emperors. The tombs are massy cases of marble,adorned with rude and tasteless sculpture of lambs, andother Christian emblems, with scarcely a trace of theantique. It seems to have been one of the first eflFectsof the Christian religion, to destroy the power of produc-ing beauty in art. These tombs are placed in a sort ofvaulted chamber, wrought over with rude mosaic, whichis said to have been built in 1300. I have yet seen nomore of Eavenna. 1 St. Paul Without the WaUs. [ 246 ]. THE YEARS 1820 AND 1821 TO MAEY SHELLEY AT PISA Ravenna, August 16, 1821. What think you of remaining at Pisa ? The Williamseswould probably be induced to stay there if we did; Huntwould certainly stay, at least this Winter, near us, shouldhe emigrate at all; Lord Byron and his Italian friendswould remain quietly there; and Lord Byron has cer-tainly a great regard for us — the regard of such a manis worth — some of the tribute we must pay to the basepassions of humanity in any intercourse with those withintheir circle; he is better worth it than those on whom webestow it from mere custom. My greatest content would be utterly to desert all humansociety. I would retire with you and our child to a soli-tary island in the sea, would build a boat, and shut uponmy retreat the flood-gates of the world. I would read noreviews, and talk with no authors. If I dared trust my im-agination, it would tell me that there are one or two chosencompanions beside yourself whom I should desire. But to
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