A day in ancient Rome; being a revision of Lohr's "Aus dem alten Rom", with numerous illustrations, by Edgar SShumway .. . THE PANTHEON IN ITS PRESENT CONDITION. ***** spared and blessd by time, Looking tranquillity, while falls or nodsArch, empire, each thing round thee, and man plods His way through thorns to ashes—glorious dome !Shalt thou not last ? Times scythe and tyrants rods Shiver upon thee—sanctuary and home Of art and piety—Pantheon ! Pride of Rome ! —Byron, Childe Harold. Hawthorne puts these words in the mouths of his characters: The world has nothing else like the Pant
A day in ancient Rome; being a revision of Lohr's "Aus dem alten Rom", with numerous illustrations, by Edgar SShumway .. . THE PANTHEON IN ITS PRESENT CONDITION. ***** spared and blessd by time, Looking tranquillity, while falls or nodsArch, empire, each thing round thee, and man plods His way through thorns to ashes—glorious dome !Shalt thou not last ? Times scythe and tyrants rods Shiver upon thee—sanctuary and home Of art and piety—Pantheon ! Pride of Rome ! —Byron, Childe Harold. Hawthorne puts these words in the mouths of his characters: The world has nothing else like the Pantheon. * * * The rustand dinginess that have dimmed the precious marble on the walls ; lO THE PANTHEON.
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Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectromeant, bookyear1885
