Recollections Abroad, During the Year 1790: Sicily and Malta, المجلد 120R. Cruttwell, 1817 - 247 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة ix - Italian shore And fair Sicilia's coast were one, before An earthquake caused the flaw : the roaring tides The passage broke, that land from land divides ; And, where the lands retired, the rushing ocean rides...
الصفحة 106 - There are also two gates to the city. One* of them is in the southern extremity of the valley, and conducts to Syracuse. The other is on the opposite side, and leads to those lands, so famed for their fertility, and which are called the Leontine fields. Below the hill, that stands on the western side of the valley, flows the river Lissus ; and on the same side, likewise, there is a row of houses, built under the very precipice, and in a line parallel to the river. Between these houses and the river...
الصفحة 128 - Distinguish'd by the straits, on either hand, Now rising cities in long order stand, And fruitful fields: so much can time invade The mold'ring work that beauteous Nature made.
الصفحة 128 - Far on the right, her dogs foul Scylla hides '. Charybdis roaring on the left presides, And in her greedy whirlpool sucks the tides, Then spouts them from below : with fury driven, The waves mount up, and wash the face of heaven. But Scylla from her den, with open jaws, The sinking vessel in her eddy draws, Then dashes on the rocks.
الصفحة ix - Through the dread opening broke the thund'ring sea : At once the thund'ring sea Sicilia tore. And sunder'd from the fair Hesperian shore ; And still the neighbouring coasts and towns divides With scanty channels, and contracted tides. Fierce to the right tremendous Scylla roars, Charybdis tn the left the flood devours.
الصفحة 127 - When, parted hence, the wind that ready waits For Sicily, shall bear you to the straits : Where proud Pelorus opes a wider way, Tack to the larboard, and stand off to sea : Veer starboard sea and land.
الصفحة 34 - The whole circuit of the city is rendered uncommonly strong both by nature 'and art. For the walls are built upon a rock, which partly by nature, and partly from the labour of art, is very steep and broken. It is surrounded also by rivers on different sides. On the side towards the south, by a river of the same name as the city: and on the west and south-west, by that which is called the Hypsas. The citadel, which stands upon a hill on the...
الصفحة 106 - Leontium, considered in its general position, is turned towards the north. Through the middle of it runs a level valley, which contains the public buildings allotted to the administration of government and justice, and in a word, the whole that is called Forum. The two sides of the valley are enclosed by two hills, which are rough and broken along their whole extent.
الصفحة 127 - At once the thundering sea Sicilia tore, And sunder'd from the fair Hesperian shore ; And still the neighbouring coasts and towns divides With scanty channels and contracted tides ; Fierce to the right tremendous Scylla roars ; Charybdis, on the left, the flood devours : Thrice...
الصفحة viii - Haec loca vi quondam et vasta convolsa ruina — Tantum aevi longinqua valet mutare vetustas — 415 Dissiluisse ferunt, cum protinus utraque tellus Una foret ; venit medio vi pontus et undis Hesperium Siculo latus abscidit, arvaque et urbes Litore diductas angusto interluit aestu.