 Naples, and took place on the water. Never was there a more propitious night for such a festival, for not a breeze ruffled the calm bosom of the beautiful bay, which resembled a vast lake, reflecting on its glassy surface the bright sky above, which was...  The idler in Italy - Էջ 402Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1839Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1839 - 340 էջ
...the bright sky above, which was glittering with innumerable stars. Naples, with its white'colonnades, seen amidst the dark foliage of its terraced gardens,...sea; and the lights streaming from the buildings on water, seemed like columns of gold. The Castle of St. Elmo crowned the centre of the picture; Vesuvius,... | |
 | Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1842 - 986 էջ
...reflecting on its glassy surface the bright sky above, and the thousand stars with which it is studded. Naples, with its white colonnades, seen amidst the dark foliage of its terraced gardens, rises like an amphitheatre; lights stream from the windows and fall on the sea beneath like columns... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1855 - 512 էջ
...reflecting on its glassy surface the bright sky above, and the thousand stars with which it is studded. Naples, with its white colonnades seen amidst the dark foliage of its terraced gardens, rises like an amphitheatre : lights stream from the windows and fall on the sea beneath like columns... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1855 - 550 էջ
...reflecting on its glassy surface the bright sky above, and the thousand stars with which it is studded. Naples, with its white colonnades seen amidst the dark foliage of its terraced gardens, rises like an amphitheatre : lights stream from the windows, and fall on the sea beneath like columns... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 416 էջ
...reflecting on its glassy surface the bright sky above, and the thousand stars with which it is studded. Naples, with its white colonnades seen amidst the dark foliage of its terraced gardens, rises like an amphitheatre : lights stream from the windows, and fall on the sea beneath like columns... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 412 էջ
...reflecting on its glassy surface the bright sky above, and the thousand stars with which it is studded. Naples, with its white colonnades seen amidst the dark foliage of its terraced gardens, rises like an amphitheatre : lights stream from the windows, and fall on the sea beneath like columns... | |
 | H. Neville Maugham, Henry Neville Maugham - 1903 - 494 էջ
...on the water. Never was there a more propitious night for such a festival, for not a breeze ruffled the calm bosom of the beautiful bay, which resembled...St. Angelo, and the coast of Sorrento fading into the distance; and on the left, the vine-crowned height of the Vomero with its palaces and villas, glancing... | |
 | 1834 - 298 էջ
...its glassy surface the bright sky above, and the thousand glittering stars with which it is studded. Naples, with its white colonnades, seen amidst the dark foliage of its terraced gardens, rises like an amphitheatre ; lights stream from the windows, and fall on the sea beneath like columns... | |
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