Travels Through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy and Lorrain: Giving a True and Just Description of the Present State of Those Countries, Their Natural, Literary and Political History, Manners, Laws, Commerce, Manufactures, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Coins, Antiquities, Curiosities of Art and Nature, &c. : Illustrated with Copper-plates Engraved from Drawings Taken on the Spot, Volum 2A. Linde, bookseller ... and T. Field, 1757 |
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Travels Through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and ..., Volum 2 Johann Georg Keyssler Visualització completa - 1757 |
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Pàgina 192 - Kneller, by Heaven, and not a master taught, Whose art was nature, and whose pictures thought ; Now for two ages, having snatch'd from fate Whate'er was beauteous, or whate'er was great, Lies crown'd with Princes' honours, Poets' lays, Due to his merit, and brave thirst of praise.
Pàgina 357 - Oft from her bowels mafly rocks are thrown, And fhiver'd by the force come piece-meal down. Oft liquid lakes of burning fulphur flow, Fed from the fiery fprings that boil below. Enceladus, they fay, transfix'd by Jove, 75$ With blafted limbs came trembling from above : And where he fell, th...
Pàgina 57 - For the world is crucified to me, and I to the world," the [apostle] says; " and now I live, though in the flesh, as having my conversation in heaven.
Pàgina 192 - Lies crown'd with Princes honours, Poets lays, Due to his Merit, and brave Thirft of praife. ^ Living, great Nature fear'd he might outvie Her works ; and, dying, fears herfelf may die.
Pàgina 136 - For raifing this obelifk out of the ground, where it lay as it were buried, Fontana contrived forty-one machines, with iron rollers and thick ropes, and worked them all at once by means of eight hundred men and a hundred and fixty horfes. This could not be effected in lefs than eight days ; and to bring the obelifk to the place where it now ftand.s, though it is only three hundred paces from the fpot where it lay, was a labour of fciur months.
Pàgina 157 - ... in a printing-house ; and such is their accuracy in imitating the finest strokes of the pencil, that the only apparent difference betwixt the original painting and such a copy is, that the latter has a much finer lustre, and the colours are more vivid.
Pàgina 458 - I praife thy ports, or mention make Of the vaft mound that binds the Lucrine lake ; Or the difdainful fea, that, fhut from thence, Roars round the ftrufture, and invades the fence ;. There, where fecure the Julian waters glide, zz5 Or where Avernus' jaws admit the Tyrrhene tide ? Our quarries deep in earth, were fam'd of old For veins of filver, and for ore of gold. Th...
Pàgina 11 - Rome was chofen by the clergy and people, and afterwards confirmed by the emperor •, by whom allb he was fometimes deprived for turbulent and feditious practices. It was under pope Nicholas II. that the cardinals firft began to acquire fuch high reputation. The red hat was conferred on them in the year 1243, by Innocent IV.
Pàgina 334 - Benedictine monastery on that hill; yet it is attended with the mortification of being five days on the road and paying the vetturini an extraordinary price for their...
Pàgina 458 - Or shall I praise thy ports, or mention make Of the vast mound that binds the Lucrine lake? Or the disdainful sea, that, shut from thence, Roars round the structure, and invades the fence, There, where secure the Julian waters glide, Or where Avernus' jaws admit the Tyrrhene tide?