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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... , which yet increas'd in me as I travell'd thro ' the Countries , of which I here give Your Lordship fome Account : For what- ever great Impreffions an Eng- Englishman must have Your Lordship , they who have been DEDICATION .
... , which yet increas'd in me as I travell'd thro ' the Countries , of which I here give Your Lordship fome Account : For what- ever great Impreffions an Eng- Englishman must have Your Lordship , they who have been DEDICATION .
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... fome extraor- dinary Action . As there are few Men that have Talents or Opportunities for examining fo copious a Subject , one may obferve , among those who have written on Italy , that different Authors have fucceeded beft on different ...
... fome extraor- dinary Action . As there are few Men that have Talents or Opportunities for examining fo copious a Subject , one may obferve , among those who have written on Italy , that different Authors have fucceeded beft on different ...
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... Verfes as have given us fome Image of the Place , or that bave fomething else befides the bare Name of it to recommend them . MO- MONACO , GENOA , & c . N the Twelfth PREFACE . were upon the Spot, and to compare the ...
... Verfes as have given us fome Image of the Place , or that bave fomething else befides the bare Name of it to recommend them . MO- MONACO , GENOA , & c . N the Twelfth PREFACE . were upon the Spot, and to compare the ...
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... fome con- fining it to the Mediterranean , others extending it to the great Ocean , and others afcribing it to a World of the Poet's own making ; tho ' his Converfations with the Dead are generally supposed to have been in the Narben ...
... fome con- fining it to the Mediterranean , others extending it to the great Ocean , and others afcribing it to a World of the Poet's own making ; tho ' his Converfations with the Dead are generally supposed to have been in the Narben ...
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... fome confiderable Antiquities ; but all they have to fhow of this nature is an old Roftrum of a Roman Ship , that ftands over the Door of their Arfenal . It is not above a Foot long , and perhaps would never have been thought the Beak ...
... fome confiderable Antiquities ; but all they have to fhow of this nature is an old Roftrum of a Roman Ship , that ftands over the Door of their Arfenal . It is not above a Foot long , and perhaps would never have been thought the Beak ...
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Æneid againſt almoft ancient Antiquities Antium Antoninus Pius Apennines beautiful becauſe befides Bern beſt call'd Campania Church Civita Vecchia Claudian confiderable Country cover'd defcrib'd Defign Deſcription diftance Dominions Dryden Duke Emperor faid fame famous feem feen feveral fhall fhould fhow fide Figure fince firft fmall fome fomething fometimes formerly ftands ftill ftood fuch fuppofe fupported Gaul Geneva Genoa greateſt Grotto himſelf Houſe ibid Ifland Infcription Inhabitants Italy itſelf laft Lake Lucius Verus Marble Marcus Aurelius Medals Mevania Milan moft moſt Mountains muft muſt Naples notwithſtanding Number obferved Occafion old Roman Ovid Paffage paffed Palace Perfons Pillars Place Pleaſure Poets Pope Port prefent Prince Profpect Proteftant raiſe Ravenna reafon reft reprefented Republic Reverſe rifing River Rocks Rome Ruins ſeen ſeveral Silius Italicus ſtands Statues Switzerland Teverone thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand thro Town uſe vaft Virgil Water
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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.