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Title: An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Railroads -- Great Britain Europe -- Guidebooks England -- Guidebooks
Publisher: (London) : Morton & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the last drops, ebbing slowFrom the red gash, fall heavy one by one,Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and nowThe arena swims around him—he is gone. The various figures we have engraved are to be found in the under-namedgalleries :— The Dying Gladiator in the Capitol (Hall of the Gladiator). The Sleeping Ariadne in the Vatican. The Apollo Belvedere in the Vatican. The Apollo Musagetes in the Vatican (Hall of the Muses). The Laughing Faun in the Vatican. Discobolus in the Vatican. The Churches of Rome, says Forsyth, are admirable by their detail.Their materials are rich, the workmanship is exquisite ; the orders are allGreek; every entablature is adjusted to the axis of each column witha mathematical scrupulosity which is lost to the eye. One visionary lineruns upward, bisecting superstitiously every shaft, triglyph, ove, bend, dentel,mutule, modilion, and lions head, that lies in its way. Their aisles aregenerally formed by arcades. Over these are sometimes grated recesses, 378
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^^^5^ -^ Rome. but never open galleries. The choir terminates in a curve, which is thegrand field of decoration, blazing with leaf-gold and glories. In the middleof the cross is the high altar. The chapels of the Holy Sacrament and theVirgin are usually in the transept. Leaving the city, and passing down the Appian Way, the road at lengthdivides—that on the right leading up the ascent, till we find a small door inthe wall, which is the entrance to the Catacomb of St. Calixtus. Othercatacombs are near, and some six hundred in all have been discovered.They are called Arenarioe, because of their sandy nature. They are arrangedin two or three, and sometimes even in four or five galleries, one aboveanother, and cross each other in every direction. They were originally ex-cavated for building purposes, and afterwards were used by Christians forsecret habitations and places of worship. Most interesting relics have beendiscovered, and many inscriptions and other memorials have been removedt

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