Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania, Volume 1J. Mawman, 1820 - 532 pages |
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... admiration ; but it is peculiarly adapted to excite surprise and pleasure in the bosom of an Englishman , who finds himself , as it were , at home in a strange land , after having measured that long tract of ocean which rolls betwixt ...
... admiration ; but it is peculiarly adapted to excite surprise and pleasure in the bosom of an Englishman , who finds himself , as it were , at home in a strange land , after having measured that long tract of ocean which rolls betwixt ...
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... admiration of posterity , where they stand , the images of calm repose , the memorials of a mighty state , and the vindicators of its ancient grandeur . Time has spread over them its sombre tints , which blend harmoniously with the ...
... admiration of posterity , where they stand , the images of calm repose , the memorials of a mighty state , and the vindicators of its ancient grandeur . Time has spread over them its sombre tints , which blend harmoniously with the ...
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... admiring votaries ; " oscula per- spicuo figunt impressa metallo . " By a similar instance of zealous devotion Jupiter Capitolinus , who was catholically metamorphosed into a St. Peter * , and at present occupies his chair at Rome , has ...
... admiring votaries ; " oscula per- spicuo figunt impressa metallo . " By a similar instance of zealous devotion Jupiter Capitolinus , who was catholically metamorphosed into a St. Peter * , and at present occupies his chair at Rome , has ...
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... admiring eyes of Æneas . " videt Iliacas ex ordine pugnas Belleaque jam famâ totum vulgata per orbem , Atridas , Priamumque , et sævum ambobus Achillem . " Æn . i . 456 . The French traveller Denon makes a very erroneous and extraordi ...
... admiring eyes of Æneas . " videt Iliacas ex ordine pugnas Belleaque jam famâ totum vulgata per orbem , Atridas , Priamumque , et sævum ambobus Achillem . " Æn . i . 456 . The French traveller Denon makes a very erroneous and extraordi ...
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... admirable walls and towers , with which Dio- nysius surrounded the island , and the impregnable fortress which he built upon the isthmus , rendered Ortygia so strong , that its possessor was always master of Syracuse , however the rest ...
... admirable walls and towers , with which Dio- nysius surrounded the island , and the impregnable fortress which he built upon the isthmus , rendered Ortygia so strong , that its possessor was always master of Syracuse , however the rest ...
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