Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania: 1 (1820)Mawman, 1820 - 532 pages |
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Page ix
... carrying Coins upon their Heads --- Visit to Mycena --- Acropolis --- Gate of the Lions --- Homeric Age and Poems --- Treasuries of Atreus - Defence of the Argive Character CHAPTER VIII . Cross the Plain of Argos --- River Inachus ...
... carrying Coins upon their Heads --- Visit to Mycena --- Acropolis --- Gate of the Lions --- Homeric Age and Poems --- Treasuries of Atreus - Defence of the Argive Character CHAPTER VIII . Cross the Plain of Argos --- River Inachus ...
Page 8
... carried on without any interruption of a green curtain , or dissipation of ideas by musical in- terludes between the acts . Annexed to the opera - house is a fine suite of rooms , called the Conversazione , though from it all ...
... carried on without any interruption of a green curtain , or dissipation of ideas by musical in- terludes between the acts . Annexed to the opera - house is a fine suite of rooms , called the Conversazione , though from it all ...
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... both sexes spit without ceremony upon the floor of a drawing - room , and carry off in their pockets confectionary and other relics of a dinner . VOL . I. C 10 MANNERS OF THE SICILIAN CAPITAL . Literature and science.
... both sexes spit without ceremony upon the floor of a drawing - room , and carry off in their pockets confectionary and other relics of a dinner . VOL . I. C 10 MANNERS OF THE SICILIAN CAPITAL . Literature and science.
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... carry a crucifix more ponderous than his fellow . Our worthy host was field - marshal on this occasion , and no general ... carried out of the chapel in a state of complete exhaustion : these rallies were accompanied by cries and groans ...
... carry a crucifix more ponderous than his fellow . Our worthy host was field - marshal on this occasion , and no general ... carried out of the chapel in a state of complete exhaustion : these rallies were accompanied by cries and groans ...
Page 44
... carrying off what christian relics he pleased . Happy ages ! when the piety of a general could atone for the failure of his arms , and when the posses- sion of a beatified mummy was deemed an equivalent for the loss of a capital ...
... carrying off what christian relics he pleased . Happy ages ! when the piety of a general could atone for the failure of his arms , and when the posses- sion of a beatified mummy was deemed an equivalent for the loss of a capital ...
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