“A” View of Society and Manners in Italy: With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters, Volum 2A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1803 |
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Pàgina viii
... Campi Phlegrei , Solfaterra , Monte Nuova , etc. - Puzzoli . - Baia . - Cumœ . -- LETTER LXVII . p . 260 . Palace of Casserta . African slaves . → Gardens . - Fortifications .. LETTER LXVIII . p . 266 . Character of the viii CONTENTS .
... Campi Phlegrei , Solfaterra , Monte Nuova , etc. - Puzzoli . - Baia . - Cumœ . -- LETTER LXVII . p . 260 . Palace of Casserta . African slaves . → Gardens . - Fortifications .. LETTER LXVIII . p . 266 . Character of the viii CONTENTS .
Pàgina 77
... town , fituated on a hill . There is one palace here , with fpacious gardens , which , when kept in repair , may have been magnificent . The stair - cafe , they affured The in- us , is ftill worthy of admiration . MANNERS IN ITALY . 77.
... town , fituated on a hill . There is one palace here , with fpacious gardens , which , when kept in repair , may have been magnificent . The stair - cafe , they affured The in- us , is ftill worthy of admiration . MANNERS IN ITALY . 77.
Pàgina 105
... can be imagined ; and much expence has been lavished to render the building , the apartments , and the gardens , equal to the fituation , E To beftow great fums of money in adorning the retreat MANNERS IN ITALY . 105.
... can be imagined ; and much expence has been lavished to render the building , the apartments , and the gardens , equal to the fituation , E To beftow great fums of money in adorning the retreat MANNERS IN ITALY . 105.
Pàgina 106
... gardens , and all the expenfive ornaments " I had particularifed , could not much im- " pede a system of self denial ; for they foon " became infipid to those who had them " conftantly before their eyes , and proved · no compenfation ...
... gardens , and all the expenfive ornaments " I had particularifed , could not much im- " pede a system of self denial ; for they foon " became infipid to those who had them " conftantly before their eyes , and proved · no compenfation ...
Pàgina 109
... gardens at Naples , the citizens have fewer avocations of business to excite their activity , no public - walks , or gardens , to which they can refort ; and are therefore more frequently feen fauntering and con- verfing in the streets ...
... gardens at Naples , the citizens have fewer avocations of business to excite their activity , no public - walks , or gardens , to which they can refort ; and are therefore more frequently feen fauntering and con- verfing in the streets ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 47 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes...
Pàgina 278 - Dircaeum levat aura cycnum, 25 tendit, Antoni, quotiens in altos nubium tractus; ego apis Matinae more modoque grata carpentis thyma per laborem plurimum circa nemus uvidique 30 Tiburis ripas operosa parvus carmina fingo.
Pàgina 286 - A death-like filence, and a dread repofe : Her gloomy prefence faddens all the fcene, Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Pàgina 70 - Christmas morning, when I was looking at two poor Calabrian pipers, doing their utmost to please her and the infant in her arms. They played for a full hour to one of her images, which stands at the corner of a street. All the other statues of the Virgin which are placed in the streets, are serenaded in the same manner every Christmas morning. On my inquiring into the meaning...
Pàgina 412 - Nay, do not think I flatter; For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter'd? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.
Pàgina 247 - People of fashion generally drive through this passage with torches, but the country people and foot passengers find their way without much difficulty by the light which enters at the extremities, and at two holes pierced through the mountain near the middle of the grotto, which admit light from above.
Pàgina 429 - Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. Strenua nos exercet inertia : navibus atque Quadrigis petimus bene vivere. Quod petis hic est, Est Ulubris, animus si te non deficit aequus.
Pàgina 69 - J never faw fuch genuine marks of fatisfadkm difplayed by any aflembly, on any qccafion whatever. The fenfibility of fome of the audience gave me an idea of the power of founds, which the dulnefs of my own auditory nerves could never have conveyed to my mind. At certain airs, filent enjoyment was exprefled in every countenance ; at others, the hands were clafped together, the eyes half...
Pàgina 311 - Every perfon of tafte muft be fenfible, that here the words are arranged with a much greater regard to the figure which the feveral objects make in the fancy, than our Englifh conftruction admits ; which would require the " Juftum & tenacem propofiti LE c T.
Pàgina 123 - HE hereditary jurifdifiion of the nobles over their vaffals fubfifls, both in the kingdom of Naples and Sicily, in the full rigour of the feudal government.