The life, travels, and literary career of Bayard Taylor . — Failure to obtain Money or Work. —Seeks a Friend. — Obtains Help from a Stranger. — Voyage toNew York. — Arrival Home. Who has entered the aged city of Eome and not feltthe power of its thrilling associations? How thedoors of history swing open before the traveller, andhow sublime the panorama which unfolds to his view !How swiftly pass the scenes of pomp and the paradesof heroes ! It cannot be described. It must be feltto be understood. It requires no very active imag-ination to see again the strong walls, the towers, thegates, the m
The life, travels, and literary career of Bayard Taylor . — Failure to obtain Money or Work. —Seeks a Friend. — Obtains Help from a Stranger. — Voyage toNew York. — Arrival Home. Who has entered the aged city of Eome and not feltthe power of its thrilling associations? How thedoors of history swing open before the traveller, andhow sublime the panorama which unfolds to his view !How swiftly pass the scenes of pomp and the paradesof heroes ! It cannot be described. It must be feltto be understood. It requires no very active imag-ination to see again the strong walls, the towers, thegates, the majestic temples, and the superb Capitolrising over all. To be able to walk its pavedstreets, and wend about its Corinthian porches, andthrough its marvellous arches ; to rush with the crowdsof Romans to a seat in the Coliseum; to march inthe triumphal processions, and to listen to the echo ofCiceros voice among the pillars of the Forum, is novery difficult dream, when the same buildings whichsaw and heard those things are yet before you. One. AT ROME. 107 can stand in the shadows of ancient ruins, when themoon gives light enough to see the outline, but notsufficient to show the scars which the ao^es have gfiventhem, and witness again the gatherings of the Romanpeople, and make out the forms of Cincinnatus, ofScipio, of Marius, of Ciesar, of Cicero, of Augustus,or of Constantine, as their lumbering chariots joltover the pavements and around the palace walls. TheTiber, which rolls on its ceaseless course, and whichsaw the faces of Liv}^ Horace, and Virgil, moves bythe Tarpeian Rock, and the Campus Martius, with thesame eddying playfulness as it exhibited then. Newglories gild the clouds, and new temples adorn theadjacent plains. Jupiter gives way to Jehovah, priestsof Janus and Venus stand aside for monks and friarsto fill their office. The Coliseum crumbles, as lifts its grand facades. Capitolinus falls andSt. Peters fills the bow of heaven. Marvels of an-cien
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