Notes, ecclesiological and picturesque, on Dalmatia, Croatia, Istria [&c.]. |
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Adriatic altar apse Aquileia arch Archbishop Austrian beautiful Besca Bishop Buje called Canon Capo d'Istria Cathedral Cattaro century chancel chapel character Cherso choir circular circular-headed clerestory coast Croatia cross curious Curzola Cyrillic Dalmatia diocese Dominis door east end Eastern Church ecclesiastical erected Euphrasius feet Flamboyant florins four Franciscan gallery Glagolita Gravosa Greek head hill houses Illyrian inscription interest island Istria lancet Latin latter Lesina marble Maria mediæval Meleda miles Missal modern modernised monastery Montenegrin mountains narthex nave north aisle octagonal Ossero Parenzo parish pass piers Pola Pope prelates present priests pyramidal head Ragusa rite rock Roman Romanesque Rome round saints scenery Sebenico shafts singular Slavonic south aisle Spalato square base square caps stands stone Styria three bays three trefoiled lights town trefoiled vaulting Veglia Venetian tower Venice village west end western façade western tower Zara Zengh دو دو دو وو
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Page 17 - The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss. And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set...
Page 145 - Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
Page 46 - Antenor potuit mediis elapsus Achivis Illyricos penetrare sinus atque intima tutus regna Liburnorum et fontem superare Timavi, unde per ora novem vasto cum murmure montis 245 it mare proruptum et pelago premit arva sonanti.
Page 5 - Dalmatia") to observe for himself — "the mutual action and reaction of the Eastern and Western Communions in their border lands on the East Coast of the Adriatic. As devoted to liturgical studies, I wished personally to examine, in the only country where it is still in use, the questions which arise from the venerable and mysterious Glagolita rite. And, finally, as an ardent student of ecclesiology, I promised myself no small gratification from the churches of Istia and Dalmatia, and, above all,...
Page 10 - ... town and on the right bank of the river some fifteen meters above low water mark, it occurs in a red burned cliff in light arenaceous clay, the specimens being very large, sometimes measuring thirty centimeters across. At the other locality, namely Burns...
Page 189 - I little thought, as I listened to him then, so full of life and strength, discussing, with the brightest anticipations, the future fortunes of his little State, that in a few months he would be lying in a bloody grave...
Page 138 - Metropolitan had another contest, which (whoever was right on the point disputed, the condemnation of some clerks by the former, and their absolution by the latter), brings out the early system of true metropolitical powers as strongly held by the Primate, and brings out, also, a great deal of unseemly violence on the part of both. ' Saul, ' Saul,' ' — thus the Archbishop commences, — ' Why persecutest thou me ? It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Page 141 - Councils, the discipline of the Fathers, the former customs of the Church, all passed in review before me. I found in these, and these only, that for which I was looking, and far more than I had expected to find It was once an article of faith that the Universal Church, scattered throughout the world, is that Catholic Church of...
Page 80 - The apse is circular in the interior, hexagonal on the outside : the round-headed windows are purely Roman, a saint in Mosaic under each. The triumphal arch has, on its broad face, medallions with the heads of female saints; on the Gospel side, six, spelt thus: Felicita, Basilissa, Eugenia, Cicilia, Agnes...
Page 69 - Gloria, laus, et honor, tibi sit Rex Christe Redemptor : Cui puerile decus prompsit Hosanna pium.