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Title: The Argosy
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Wood, Henry, Mrs., 1814-1887 Wood, Charles W. (Charles William), b. 1850?
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Publisher: London (etc.) R. Bentley (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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with thekeys conspicuous. A group of angels are sounding the last trump,and supporting the Books of Judgment. You see the fall of the lost;the triumph of the blessed. Charon is rowing a group across theStyx. The fresco has been touched by other hands at differenttimes, and most of its original tone and colour has faded; but forboldness of composition and grandeur of conception it is almostunrivalled. On the paintings of the Vatican, volumes have been written. Welooked again at a few of our especial favourites, and at some of themagnificent and often matchless sculpture. And who that has ex-amined these galleries has not been struck with the faces of the twoPopes, placed side by side, and noted the singular contrast: the oneelevated, refined, intellectual; the other all that is the contrary tothis. In this wonderful old palace—the most wonderful in the world—the Pope passes his days, under the shadow of St. Peters, whichhe so rarely enters. Here he is a comparative prisoner, but in
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VOL. XLVII. Past and Present. H H 5o6 * Ecco Roma / * what a prison does he spend his hfe ! The extent of its buildingsand grounds seems incredible. They alone form a small town andterritory, and the Pope can enjoy delightful drives within the seclus-ion of his own garden walls. What treasures are within his keeping !Prisoner though he may be, temporal power that he may have lost,what influence still goes forth to the world from that nook in Rome.The shadows of the seven hills surround it; there is little to be seenfrom it but the blue skies of heaven; but the influence of one manwithin its precincts is still sufficient to break or to bind laws, tocontrol monarchs and influence rebellions. You enter by the famous bronze gate, surmounted by the twoangels and a rich mosaic. Passing through a long corridor you ascendthe royal staircase, and are fairly within the building which has solong controlled the destinies of the Roman Catholic world. It has taken more than five centuries to comple

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