 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1893 - 924 pages
...the saint, And are in their completeness incomplete ! In the old Tuscan town stands Giotto's tower, The builder's perfect and centennial flower. That...bloomed alone, But wanting still the glory of the spire. TO-MORROW 'T is late at night, and in the realm of sleep My little lambs are folded like the flocks;... | |
 | Eleanor Childs Meehan - 1903 - 390 pages
...course we made most of our observations from that point. Longfellow thus writes of Giotto's Tower: " tn the old Tuscan town stands Giotto's tower, The lily...centennial flower That in the night of ages bloomed alone." The baptistery, an octagonal building, dates back fifteen hundred years. Here all the children born... | |
 | Bridget Ellen Burke - 1904 - 268 pages
...artists paint Around the shining forehead of the saint, And are in their completeness incomplete ! In the old Tuscan town stands Giotto's tower, The...bloomed alone, But wanting still the glory of the spire. The cross, if rightly borne, shall be No burden, but support to thee. CHRIST AND THE CENTURION And... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1904 - 338 pages
...with patient following, and your hour's study will give you strength for all your life.' — Ruskin. ' In the old Tuscan town stands Giotto's tower, The...alone, But wanting still the glory of the spire.' — Longfellow. The tower is ascended by 414 steps. The Cathedral — Santa Maria del Fiore — was... | |
 | LILIAN WHITING - 1905 - 394 pages
...artists paint Around the shining forehead of the saint, And are in their completeness incomplete ! In the old Tuscan town stands Giotto's tower, The...alone, But wanting still the glory of the spire." « George Eliot and Mr. Lewes were the guests of Thomas Adolphus Trollope in the winter of 1869-70,... | |
 | Lilian Whiting - 1905 - 388 pages
...artists paint Around the shining forehead of the saint, And are in their completeness incomplete ! In the old Tuscan town stands Giotto's tower, The...alone, But wanting still the glory of the spire." George Eliot and Mr. Lewes were the guests of Thomas Adolphus Trollope in the winter of 1869-70, at... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 730 pages
...artists paint Around the shining forehead of the saint, And are in tbeir completeness incomplete ! In the old Tuscan town stands Giotto's tower, The...bloomed alone, But wanting still the glory of the spire. 1866. FINALE OF CHRISTUS SAINT JOHN SAINT JOHN wandering over the face oftht Earth. SAINT JOHH : THE... | |
 | Walter Jewett Keith - 1905 - 288 pages
...cornice crowns it instead. Longfellow's tribute to this campanile is so beautiful that we give it here : "In the old Tuscan town stands Giotto's tower, The...flower, That in the night of ages bloomed alone." As compared with the churches of Xorthern Europe, Italian Gothic churches were smaller and simpler,... | |
 | 1905 - 712 pages
...yet TOM S TOWER, OXFORD. its splendid old bells ring forth a chime as sweet as those famous bells of "Giotto's tower, The lily of Florence, blossoming in stone, A vision, a delight, a desire, The builder's perfect and centennial flower, That in the night of ages bloomed alone, But... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1906 - 444 pages
...artists paint Around the shining forehead of the saint, And are in their completeness incomplete l In the old Tuscan town stands Giotto's tower, The...bloomed alone, But wanting still the glory of the spire. Longfellow certainly, though often ineffective and commonplace in his treatment of a subject, had a... | |
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In the old Tuscan town stands Giotto's tower, The lily of Florence blossoming in stone, — A vision, a delight, and a desire, — The builder's perfect and centennial flower, That in the night of ages bloomed alone, But wanting still the glory of the... 
