Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1833-10-10

| hohS, hSSH DdnkS OF eartD, carts, BOYS
playing at marble, and wooden sentry
boxes, and what with the Partisan pro.
menade, made by the French through
the centre, the imagination is too dis.
turbed and hindered in daylight. The
moon gives it all one covering of gray
and silver. The old columns stand up
in all their solitary majesty, wrecks of
beauty and taste; silence leaves the
fancy to find voice for itself; and
from the palaces Of the Caesars to the
prisons of the capitol, the whole train
OF emperors, senators, conspirators and
citizens, are summoned with but half a
thought, and the magic glass is filled
with moving and terminated Rome.
There, beneath those walls, on the
right, in the Mammertine prisons, per-
ished Jugurtha, land here, too, were
imprisoned st. Paul and St. Peter and
opposite, upon the Palatine- hill, lived
the mighty masters of Rome, in the
palaces of the Cesars," and beneath
the majestic arch hey ond, were led, as
seal of their slavery, the captives
from Jerusalem, and in these temples,
whose ruins cast their shadows at my
feet, walked and discoursed Cicero and
the philosophers, Brutus and the patri-
OTIS, Cataline and the conspirators, Au-
gustus and the scholars and poets, and
the great stranger in Rome, st. Paul,
gazing at the false affairs, and burning
in his heart to reveal to them the sun-
known God.' What men have cross
ed the shadows OF these very columns!
ard what thoughts, that have moved
the world, have been born beneath
themi
The Barberina palace contains three
or four masterpieces of painting. The
most celebrated is the portrait of Bea.
trice Cenci, by Guido. The melan-
choly and strange history of this beau
tiful girl has been told in variety of
ways, and is probably familiar to every
reader. Guido saw her ON her way
to execution, and has painted her as
she was dressed, in the gray habit and
head-dress made by her own hands,
and finished but an hour before she put
it on. There are engravings and CO.
pies of the pictures all over the world,
but none that | have seen give any idea
of the excessive gentleness and serem-
ty of the countenance. The eyes re-
tain traces of weeping, but the child
like mouth, the soft girlish lines of fea-
lures, that look rs if they had never
worn more than the one expression of
youthfulness and affection, are all in
repose, and the head is turned over the
shoulder with as simple sweetness as
If she but looked back to say good
night before going to her chamber to
sleep. She little looks like what she
was-one Of the frmest and boldesi
spirits whose history is recorded. AZ
ter numbering her father for his fend-
ish attempts upon her virtue, she en-
dured every torture rather than dis
grace her family by confession, and
was only moved from her consistency,
at last, by the agonies of her younger
brother on the rack. Who would read
, capabilities like these, in these heav-
enly and child-like features?
The gallery contains also delicious
picture of the Forparina, by Raphael
HIMSELF and a portrait of Giorgione':
mistress, as Carthagenian slave, the
same head multiplied so often in hi'
and Titian's pictures. The original o
the admirable picture of Joseph ant
the wife of Potiphar, is also here. A
copy of it is in the gallery of Flo
renee.
have passed day between th'
two places Doria and Sciaria, nearl.
opposite each other in the Corso a
Rome. The first is an immense gal
lery of perhaps a thousand pictures
distributed through seven large halls
and four galleries encircling the court
In the first four rooms found nothin
that struck me particularly. In tn
fifth was a portrait by an unknow
artist, of Olivia Waldachini, favorit
and sister-in-law of Pope Innocent X
} "a handsome woman, with that roun
fitness in the throat and neck, whic
. whether it existed in the originals, c
, is part of painters ideal of We
man of pleasure,) is universal in POI
: traits of that character. In the sam
e room was portrait of celebrate
: widow" by Vandyck,* a had-bee
S beautiful woman, in staid cap, 9TH
/. hands wonderfully painted,) and
$ large and rich picture of Semiraml
O by one of the Caracas.
? In the galleries hung the Landscape
i by Claude, famous through the worl'
= 1t is like rowing through paradise,
g sit and look at them. His broad gree
4 lawns, his half hidden temples, his lif
II like, luxuriant trees, his fountains, h
emmy streams-all flash into the e,