Remarks on several parts of ItalyJ. and R. Tonson, 1765 |
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... subjects that a traveller may find to employ himself upon . For my own part , as I have taken notice of several places and antiquities that no body else has spoken of , fo , I think , I have mentioned but few things in common with ...
... subjects that a traveller may find to employ himself upon . For my own part , as I have taken notice of several places and antiquities that no body else has spoken of , fo , I think , I have mentioned but few things in common with ...
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... subject out of courts where eunuchs are really actors , or represent by them any of the foft Afiatic monarchs ? The opera that was moft in vogue during my ftay at Venice , was built on the following fubject . Cæfar and Scipio are rivals ...
... subject out of courts where eunuchs are really actors , or represent by them any of the foft Afiatic monarchs ? The opera that was moft in vogue during my ftay at Venice , was built on the following fubject . Cæfar and Scipio are rivals ...
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... subjects . We may here add , that there is no place in Europe fo much frequented by strangers , whether they are fuch as come out of curiofity or fuch who are obliged to attend the court of Rome on feveral occafions , as are many of the ...
... subjects . We may here add , that there is no place in Europe fo much frequented by strangers , whether they are fuch as come out of curiofity or fuch who are obliged to attend the court of Rome on feveral occafions , as are many of the ...
الصفحة 135
... subjects are miferably haraffed and oppreffed , the greatest of their oppref- fors are thofe of their own body . I shall not mention any thing of the clergy , who are fufficiently reproached in most itineraries for the univerfal poverty ...
... subjects are miferably haraffed and oppreffed , the greatest of their oppref- fors are thofe of their own body . I shall not mention any thing of the clergy , who are fufficiently reproached in most itineraries for the univerfal poverty ...
الصفحة 172
... subject , and find nothing fatisfactory of it where I thought it most likely to be met with , in Patin's edition of Suetonius illuftrated by medals , Thofe I have converfed with about it , are of opinion they were made to ridi- cule the ...
... subject , and find nothing fatisfactory of it where I thought it most likely to be met with , in Patin's edition of Suetonius illuftrated by medals , Thofe I have converfed with about it , are of opinion they were made to ridi- cule the ...
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الصفحة 176 - Bajan mole, Rais'd on the seas, the surges to control — At once comes tumbling down the rocky wall; Prone to the deep, the stones disjointed fall Of the vast pile; the...
الصفحة 268 - Four steeds the chariot of Latinus bear; Twelve golden beams around his temples play, To mark his lineage from the God of Day. Two snowy coursers Turnus...
الصفحة 83 - ... austerities of religion. He had not been long here before he wrought a reputed miracle, which, joined with his extraordinary sanctity, gained him so great an esteem, that the princess of the country made him a present of the mountain, to dispose of at his own discretion.
الصفحة 45 - He had no sooner done speaking, but behold a miracle! The fish, as though they had been endued with reason, bowed down their heads with all the marks of a profound humility and devotion, moving their bodies up and down with a kind of fondness, as approving what had been spoken by the blessed father St. Antonio.
الصفحة 102 - Which, breaking from beneath with bellowing sound, Whirls the black waves and rattling stones around. Here Pluto pants for breath from out his cell, And opens wide the grinning jaws of hell.
الصفحة 84 - His reputation quickly peopled it, and gave rise to the republic which calls itself after his name: so that the commonwealth of Marino may boast at least of a nobler original than that of Rome, the one having been at first an asylum for robbers and murderers, and the other a resort of , persons eminent for their piety and devotion.
الصفحة 182 - And cedar brands supply her father's light. From hence were heard, rebellowing to the main, The roars of lions that refuse the chain, The grunts of bristled boars, and groans of bears, And herds of howling wolves that stun the sailors
الصفحة 182 - And herds of howling wolves that stun the sailors' ears. These from their caverns, at the close of night, Fill the sad isle with horror and affright. Darkling they mourn their fate, whom Circe's pow'r, (That...
الصفحة 287 - At one side of the walks you have a near prospect of the Alps, which are broken into so many steps and precipices, that they fill the mind with an agreeable kind of horror, and form one of the most irregular mis-shapen scenes in the world.
الصفحة 95 - Cloelia for their guide. High on a rock heroic Manlius stood, To guard the temple, and the temple's god. Then Rome was poor; and there you might behold The palace thatch'd with straw, now roof'd with gold. The silver goose before the shining gate There flew, and, by her cackle, sav'd the state. She told the Gauls' approach; th' approaching Gauls, Obscure in night, ascend, and seize the walls.