A sketch of a tour on the continuent in the years 1786 and 1787, Band 2 |
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Seite 347 - ... about 350 feet, and is said to be three feet and a half out of the perpendicular. The adventurous traveller may ascend to the top by a laborious staircase of 500 steps. Those steps were trod by the late amiable and excellent Sir James Edward Smith, who has described the view presented at the summit. " The day was unfavourable for a view; but we could well distinguish Imola, Ferrara, and Modena, as well as the hills about Verona, Mount Baldus, &c. seeming to rise abruptly from the dead flat •which...
Seite 420 - Their elegance of attitude is certainly owing to the just and full exertion of the muscular frame, which always gives elegance. They stand on a very narrow part of the boat, slightly elevated, like the ridge of a house, and varying in its horizontal inclination every moment, on which they are supported...
Seite 217 - Virtues. Beloved by Papists, esteemed by Protestants : A Priest without insolence or interest ; A Prince without favourites ; A Pope without nepotism ; An Author without vanity ; In short, a Man whom neither Wit nor Power could spoil.
Seite 300 - Quanto prsesentius esset Numen aquae, viridi si margine clauderet undas Herba, nee ingenuum violarent marmora tophum...
Seite 402 - Amelia's presence ; indeed, she expected from her some of those insults of which virtuous women are generally so liberal to a frail sister : but she was mistaken ; Amelia was not one Who thought the nation ne'er would thrive, Till all the whores were burnt alive.
Seite 53 - French academy of painting and sculpture, we observed some very rich ornaments of this kind, representing the natural productions of Cayenne, executed in a first-rate style, probably at the Gobelins, and forming an interesting study for a naturalist. They are exposed at no other time. " We mixed with the motley crowd every afternoon, our English clothes serving most completely as a masquerade dress, and procuring us a number of rencounters, all of the facetious and good-humoured kind. Tuesday, February...
Seite 101 - A plant," says this elegant writer, on collecting some specimens near the Bay of Baia, " gathered in a celebrated or delightful spot, is like the hair of a friend, — more dear to memory than even a portrait ; because it excites the imagination without attempting to fill it.
Seite 276 - ... linen, shoes and stockings, to the poor men and women, and, according to ancient custom, a cup of wine, to drink the king's health. This ceremony is still continued in similar style. At Rome, the altar of the Capella Paolina is illuminated with more than 4000 wax tapers ; and the pope and cardinals go thither in procession, bringing the sacrament along with them, and leaving it there. Then the pope blesses the people, and washes the feet of some pilgrims, and serves them at dinner. At Moscow,...
Seite 38 - ... was at Rome, how awfully devoted I was to. his despotic laws, 'although I derived no solid satisfaction in my own breast for my obedience to them. There is at Rome, placed in one of the churches, a (pretended) very holy, and celebrated staircase, consisting of twenty-eight steps of marble, said to be taken from the house of Pontius Pilate, and which Christ is reported to have ascended and descended several times. These steps can only be ascended kneeling; and so blinded was I and thousands by...
Seite 54 - ... thing like a quarrel. It was the most good-humoured mob I ever saw. About dark, every body took a small lighted taper in their hands, and most people held several ; happy were they who could keep the greatest number lighted, for the amusement consisted in trying to extinguish each other's candles. Some people carried large flambeaux. All the windows, and even roofs, being crowded with spectators, and scarcely any body without lights, the street looked like a starry firmament. Below were many...