Remarks on several parts of ItalyJ. and R. Tonson, 1765 |
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... ruins , and antiquities . Among the authors of our own country , we are obliged to the Bishop of Salisbury , for his masterly and uncommon obfervations on the religion and governments of Italy : Laffels may be useful in giving us the ...
... ruins , and antiquities . Among the authors of our own country , we are obliged to the Bishop of Salisbury , for his masterly and uncommon obfervations on the religion and governments of Italy : Laffels may be useful in giving us the ...
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... ruin of a triumphal arch erected to Flaminius , where one fees old Doric pillars without any pe- destal or bafis , as Vitruvius has defcribed them . I have not yet feen any gardens in Italy worth taking notice of . The Italians fall as ...
... ruin of a triumphal arch erected to Flaminius , where one fees old Doric pillars without any pe- destal or bafis , as Vitruvius has defcribed them . I have not yet feen any gardens in Italy worth taking notice of . The Italians fall as ...
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... ruins of an amphithe- atre . The Suggeftum , on which it is faid that Julius Cæfar harrangued his army after having paffed the Rubicon . I must confefs I can by no means look on this last as authentic : It is built of hewn ftone , like ...
... ruins of an amphithe- atre . The Suggeftum , on which it is faid that Julius Cæfar harrangued his army after having paffed the Rubicon . I must confefs I can by no means look on this last as authentic : It is built of hewn ftone , like ...
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... ruins of an ancient theatre , with fome of the caves intire . I faw among the ruins an old heathen altar , with this particularity in it , that it is hollow'd , like a difh , at one end ; * Vid . Faft . Conful . Sicul . H 4 but but it ...
... ruins of an ancient theatre , with fome of the caves intire . I faw among the ruins an old heathen altar , with this particularity in it , that it is hollow'd , like a difh , at one end ; * Vid . Faft . Conful . Sicul . H 4 but but it ...
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... ruins in Italy . It has no cement , and looks as firm as one intire ftone . There is an arch of it unbroken , the broadeft that I have ever seen , though by reason of its great height it does not appear fo . The middle one was still ...
... ruins in Italy . It has no cement , and looks as firm as one intire ftone . There is an arch of it unbroken , the broadeft that I have ever seen , though by reason of its great height it does not appear fo . The middle one was still ...
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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.