Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c: In the Years 1701, 1702, 1703J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 - 303 من الصفحات |
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... Reason why the Genoefe Senate carries it with greater Moderation towards their Subjects than the Venetian . It would have been well for the Republic of Ge noa , if fhe had followed the Example of her Sifter of Venice , in not permitting ...
... Reason why the Genoefe Senate carries it with greater Moderation towards their Subjects than the Venetian . It would have been well for the Republic of Ge noa , if fhe had followed the Example of her Sifter of Venice , in not permitting ...
الصفحة 22
... reason of their Conqueft of Corfica , where there was formerly a Saracen King . This indeed gives their Ambaffadors a more honourable Reception at fome Courts , but , at the fame time , may teach their People to have a mean Notion of ...
... reason of their Conqueft of Corfica , where there was formerly a Saracen King . This indeed gives their Ambaffadors a more honourable Reception at fome Courts , but , at the fame time , may teach their People to have a mean Notion of ...
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... Reason , bowed down their Heads with all the Marks of a profound Humility and Devo- tion , moving their Bodies up and down with a " kind of Fondness , as approving what had been " fpoken by the bleffed Father , St. Antonio . The ...
... Reason , bowed down their Heads with all the Marks of a profound Humility and Devo- tion , moving their Bodies up and down with a " kind of Fondness , as approving what had been " fpoken by the bleffed Father , St. Antonio . The ...
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... their Common- wealth , they never fail of giving a Man his due Praises , when they are in no danger of fuffering from his Ambition . For this Reason , tho ' there are are a great many Monuments erected to fuch as have 60 VENICE .
... their Common- wealth , they never fail of giving a Man his due Praises , when they are in no danger of fuffering from his Ambition . For this Reason , tho ' there are are a great many Monuments erected to fuch as have 60 VENICE .
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... Polishing for Poetical Ufe , that they drop feveral of their Letters , and appear in another Form , when they come to be Fanged in Verfe . For this Reason the Italian Opera feldom feldom finks into a Poornefs of Language , but , 66 VENICE .
... Polishing for Poetical Ufe , that they drop feveral of their Letters , and appear in another Form , when they come to be Fanged in Verfe . For this Reason the Italian Opera feldom feldom finks into a Poornefs of Language , but , 66 VENICE .
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الصفحة 240 - 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 167 - 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 171 - The Trojan, from the main, beheld a wood, 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. About him, and above, and round the wood, The birds that haunt the borders of his flood, That bath'd within, or bask'd upon his side, To tuneful songs their narrow throats apply'd. The captain gives command : the joyful train...
الصفحة 10 - Monsieur Misson has wrote a more correct account of Italy in general than any before him, as he particularly excels in the plan of the country, which he has given us in true and lively colours.
الصفحة 175 - ... a man who is in Rome can scarce see an object that does not call to mind a piece of a Latin poet or historian.
الصفحة 50 - When the heretics would not regard his preaching, he betook himself to the sea-shore, where the river Marecchia disembogues itself into the Adriatic. He here called the fish together in the name of God, that they might hear his holy word. The fish came swimming towards him in such vast shoals, both from the sea and from the river, that the surface of the water was quite covered with their multitudes. They quickly ranged themselves, according to their several species, into a very beautiful congregation,...
الصفحة 168 - 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 watch'd the moon, and planetary hour) With words and wicked herbs, from human kind Had alter'd, and in brutal shapes confin'd. Which monsters lest the Trojans' pious host Should bear, or touch upon th' enchanted coast, Propitious Neptune steer' d their course by night, With rising gales, that...
الصفحة 222 - When a man sees the prodigious pains and expense that our fore-fathers have been at in these barbarous buildings, one cannot but fancy to himself what miracles of architecture they would have left us, had they only been instructed in .the right way...
الصفحة 223 - ... and the front covered with such a variety of figures, and overrun with so many little mazes and labyrinths of sculpture, that nothing in the world can make a prettier show to those who prefer false beauties, and affected ornaments, to a noble and majestic simplicity.
الصفحة 101 - 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.