John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition: containing engravings of the principal masterpieces of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French, and German schools (1858)
Cassell, John, 1817-1865 · London, W. Kent and co. · leaf 409
th thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress. The Goth, the Christian—Time, War, Flood, and Fire,Have dealt upon the Seven-hilled Citys pride.She saw her glories, star by star, expire ;And up the steep barbarian monarchs ride, 89(5 JOHN CASSELI/S ART TREASURES EXHIBITION. Where the car climbed the… … A ruin! Yet what ruin ! From its mass, Walls, palaces, half cities have been reared. Yet oft the enormous skeleton ye pass, And marvel where her spoil could have appeared. Hath it, indeed, been plundered, or but cleared ? Alas ! developed, opens the decay. When the colossal fabrics form is neared.…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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