 The English burying-place is a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal tomb of Cestius, and is, I think, the most beautiful and solemn cemetery I ever beheld. To see the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh, when we first visited it, with the...  Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments, - Page 174by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 360 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 258 lehte
...of November in this climate when we visited it, day after day. Near it is the arch of Constantino, or rather the arch of Trajan; for the servile and...the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees which ! have overgrown the tomb of Cestius, and the soil which is... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 lehte
...of November in this cliinate when we visited it, day after day. Near it is the arch of Constantino, or rather the arch of Trajan ; for the servile and...the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the, trees which have overgrown the tomb of Cestius, and the soil which is... | |
 | 1845 - 670 lehte
...and not wish to see the spot so touchingly described by Shelley. " The English burying-place is ?. green slope near the walls under the pyramidal tomb...the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh, when we visited it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees,... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip - 1846 - 478 lehte
...Rome, he spoke of it as " the most beautiful and solemn . cemetery he ever beheld," — and adds — "To see the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh, when we first saw it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees which... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 lehte
...weeds. The English burying-placc is a grc-cn slope near the walls, under the pyramidal tomb of Ccstius, and is, I think, the most beautiful and solemn cemetery...the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees which have overgrown the tomb of Cestius, and the soil which is... | |
 | 1847 - 672 lehte
...visited Rome, he spoke of it as " the most beautiful and solemn cemetery he ever beheld ; " and adds, " To see the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh, when we first saw it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees which... | |
 | 1881 - 996 lehte
...lingered about it, and when he first visited Rome he wrote : " It is the most solemn and beautiful cemetery I ever beheld to see the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh when wo first saw it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 584 lehte
...and cypress, and pine, and the neglected walks are overgrown with weeds. The English burying-placc is a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal...and solemn cemetery I ever beheld. To see the sun sinning on its bright grass, fresh, when we first visited it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the... | |
 | 1889 - 1088 lehte
...Shelley wrote home of it in these words : — The English burying-place is a green slope near the wnlls, under the pyramidal tomb of Cestius, and is, I think,...the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among- the leaves of the trees which have overgrown the tomb of Cestius and the soil which is... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1878 - 424 lehte
...pass over the spot which they have made sacred to eternity. In Rome, at least in the first enthusiasjn of your recognition of ancient time, you see nothing...the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees which have overgrown the tomb of Cestius, and the soil which is... | |
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