Remarks on Several Parts of Italy &c: In the Years 1701, 1702, 1703T. Walker, 1773 - 303 من الصفحات |
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... : Mr. Ray is to be valued for his obfer- vations on the natural productions of the place . Monfieur Miffo has wrote a more correct account of Italy in general than any ary before him , as he particularly excels in the PREFACE .
... : Mr. Ray is to be valued for his obfer- vations on the natural productions of the place . Monfieur Miffo has wrote a more correct account of Italy in general than any ary before him , as he particularly excels in the PREFACE .
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... I met with in travelling , to ex- amine these several defcriptions , as it were upon the fpot , and to compare the natural face of the country with the landfkips that that the Poets have given us of it . Howe PREFACE .
... I met with in travelling , to ex- amine these several defcriptions , as it were upon the fpot , and to compare the natural face of the country with the landfkips that that the Poets have given us of it . Howe PREFACE .
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... natural benefit of their climates , the extreme mifery and poverty that are in most of the Italian governments would be infup- portable . There are at St. Remo many plantations of palm - trees , though they do not grow in other parts of ...
... natural benefit of their climates , the extreme mifery and poverty that are in most of the Italian governments would be infup- portable . There are at St. Remo many plantations of palm - trees , though they do not grow in other parts of ...
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... natural curiofi- ties , I took particular notice of a piece of cryftal , that inclosed a couple of drops , which looked like water when they were fhaken , though perhaps they are nothing but bubbles of air . It is fuch a ra- rity as ...
... natural curiofi- ties , I took particular notice of a piece of cryftal , that inclosed a couple of drops , which looked like water when they were fhaken , though perhaps they are nothing but bubbles of air . It is fuch a ra- rity as ...
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... natural . It is indeed very strange there should be fuch a diversity of manners , where there is fo fmall a difference in the air and climate . The French are always open , familiar , and talkative : The Italians , on the contrary , are ...
... natural . It is indeed very strange there should be fuch a diversity of manners , where there is fo fmall a difference in the air and climate . The French are always open , familiar , and talkative : The Italians , on the contrary , are ...
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الصفحة 172 - Which thick with shades, and a brown horror, stood : Betwixt the trees the Tiber took his course, With whirlpools dimpled ; and, with downward force, That drove the sand along, he took his way, And roll'd his yellow billows to the sea.
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 260 - 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 96 - 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.
الصفحة 54 - 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 223 - There is nothing in this city so extraordinary as the cathedral, which a man may view with pleasure after he has seen St. Peter's, though it is quite of another make, and can only be looked upon as one of the masterpieces of Gothic architecture.
الصفحة 86 - ... 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 163 - 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 90 - Nothing indeed can be a greater instance of the natural love that mankind has for liberty, and of their aversion to an arbitrary government, than such a savage mountain covered with people, and the Campania of Rome, which lies in the same country, almost destitute of inhabitants.