Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania, Volume 1Mawman, 1820 - 1 pages |
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Page 45
... noble structure ; but in 1704 , the magazine being struck with lightning , 300 barrels of gunpowder exploded , and blew the greatest part of it into the air , destroying thirty - three Spaniards belonging to the garrison . Although a ...
... noble structure ; but in 1704 , the magazine being struck with lightning , 300 barrels of gunpowder exploded , and blew the greatest part of it into the air , destroying thirty - three Spaniards belonging to the garrison . Although a ...
Page 57
... noble paintings , amongst which was an equestrian combat of King Agathocles , considered one of the rarest works of Syracusan skill : seven - and - twenty more admirable pictures did the infamous prætor carry off from this sanctuary ...
... noble paintings , amongst which was an equestrian combat of King Agathocles , considered one of the rarest works of Syracusan skill : seven - and - twenty more admirable pictures did the infamous prætor carry off from this sanctuary ...
Page 59
... noble art ; endeavours therefore are made to obtain by ornament and disunion of parts , that which others effected by grandeur of design and unity of plan : hence inconsistencies like those of the painter or the poet " qui variare cupit ...
... noble art ; endeavours therefore are made to obtain by ornament and disunion of parts , that which others effected by grandeur of design and unity of plan : hence inconsistencies like those of the painter or the poet " qui variare cupit ...
Page 60
... noble statues , where the son erected a magnificent mausoleum to re- ceive the ashes of his father . To render his fortress complete , Diony- sius constructed within it a mint , a prison , a magazine of arms fur- nished with ...
... noble statues , where the son erected a magnificent mausoleum to re- ceive the ashes of his father . To render his fortress complete , Diony- sius constructed within it a mint , a prison , a magazine of arms fur- nished with ...
Page 64
... noble qualities of the great men to whom it gave birth ; of Philistus , an historian whom Cicero compares with Thucydides him- self ; Theocritus , around whose bust the ivy chaplet still hangs with unfaded verdure ; Archimedes , that ...
... noble qualities of the great men to whom it gave birth ; of Philistus , an historian whom Cicero compares with Thucydides him- self ; Theocritus , around whose bust the ivy chaplet still hangs with unfaded verdure ; Archimedes , that ...
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