Old Time Travel Personal Reminiscences of the Continent Forty Years Ago Compare
Old Time Travel Personal Reminiscences of the Continent Forty Years Ago Compare
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We skirted the Trastevere, and crossed the bridge, 266 OLDER ROME [chap under the shadow of Hadrian's mausoleum ; we dived into a network of narrow streets, dimly lighted below by oil lamps flickering at the cross- ings or corners, or before shrines of the Virgin and the saints, till we were landed at the Angleterre in the Bocca di Leone, which, as befitted a Roman hostelry, had an antique cachet of its own.
The Rome of the Popes was a city by itself, and never can we look upon the like again. ...The wrecks of the classic past have passed through the hands of the jerry-builder, and new brooms have been sweeping away old abuses, with little regard to the sanctity of time-honoured associations. In the veritable Rome superstition reigned supreme, and the priestly conservatism inclined to retrogres- sion. The city entrenched upon the Seven Hills stood impregnable to the iconoclasts and their advanced ideas. The malaria guarded the out- works in the environs, and it was symbolical that the Church set its face against tillage, and objected to breaking up the pastoral wastes which nourished flocks of ragged sheep and bred fevers and agues.
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We skirted the Trastevere, and crossed the bridge, 266 OLDER ROME [chap under the shadow of Hadrian's mausoleum ; we dived into a network of narrow streets, dimly lighted below by oil lamps flickering at the cross- ings or corners, or before shrines of the Virgin and the saints, till we were landed at the Angleterre in the Bocca di Leone, which, as befitted a Roman hostelry, had an antique cachet of its own.
The Rome of the Popes was a city by itself, and never can we look upon the like again. ...The wrecks of the classic past have passed through the hands of the jerry-builder, and new brooms have been sweeping away old abuses, with little regard to the sanctity of time-honoured associations. In the veritable Rome superstition reigned supreme, and the priestly conservatism inclined to retrogres- sion. The city entrenched upon the Seven Hills stood impregnable to the iconoclasts and their advanced ideas. The malaria guarded the out- works in the environs, and it was symbolical that the Church set its face against tillage, and objected to breaking up the pastoral wastes which nourished flocks of ragged sheep and bred fevers and agues.
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