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" This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, among the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever-winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended... "
Wonders of the World as Seen and Described by Great Writers - Page 134
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The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose: Now First Together ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 458 pages
...the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Eome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate,...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 3

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1881 - 474 pages
...intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. This poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of...immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of Spring in that divinest climate,...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Text ..., Volume 2

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1881 - 478 pages
...intellectual natyre, impelled by the purest andjhe truest motives if to the best and noblest ends. P This poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of...immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of Spring in that divinest climate,...
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Cities of the world, Volume 3

Edwin Hodder - 1881 - 658 pages
...the flowery glades and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in everwidening labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air." In this neighbourhood are to be found some of the principal catacombs. The catacombs are "a vast labyrinth...
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Rambles in Rome: An Archæological and Historical Guide to the Museums ...

S. Russell Forbes - 1882 - 386 pages
...leads to the BATHS OF CARACALLA. Admission one lira ; Sundays free. A favourite spot of Shelley's — "among the flowery glades and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air." So the poet...
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Rambles in Rome: An Archæological and Historical Guide to the Museums ...

S. Russell Forbes - 1882 - 384 pages
...the flowery glades and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air." So the poet wrote of this spot. But now it is all changed : the hand of the explorer has ruthlessly...
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The Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and ..., Volume 3

Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 364 pages
...the flowery glades and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in many widening labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Eome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate,...
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Valeria, the martyr of the catacombs

William Henry Withrow - 1883 - 192 pages
...the flowery glades and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever-widening labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air." Piers of solid masonry soar aloft like towers, on the summit of which good-sized trees are growing....
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A Study: With Critical and Explanatory Notes, of Lord Tennyson's Poem, The ...

Samuel Edward Dawson - 1884 - 150 pages
...the flowery glades and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees which are extended in ever- winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air." The passage is very suggestive of these ruins, the mosaic floors are riven by rank weeds, and the lofty...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Text ..., Volume 2

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1885 - 474 pages
...and noblest ends. This poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of CaracaUa, among the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous...immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of Spring in that divinest climate,...
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