The Diary of an Invalid: Being the Journal of a Tour in Pursuit of Health, in Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, and France, in the Years 1817, 1818, and 1819, Volume 1J. Murray, 1824 - 307 halaman |
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Halaman 15
... ancients also are supposed to have been - ignorant of the first principles of hydraulics , which have every where else superseded the necessity of such stu- pendous structures . Still , in point of architectural grandeur and ...
... ancients also are supposed to have been - ignorant of the first principles of hydraulics , which have every where else superseded the necessity of such stu- pendous structures . Still , in point of architectural grandeur and ...
Halaman 25
... ancient mythology , which is as amusing as Mother Bunch , illustrated and adorned too , as it was , by such divine statues . Besides - the heathens had not the means of knowing better ; but who that has read the New Testament , can ...
... ancient mythology , which is as amusing as Mother Bunch , illustrated and adorned too , as it was , by such divine statues . Besides - the heathens had not the means of knowing better ; but who that has read the New Testament , can ...
Halaman 44
... ancient and modern art are all around you , and furnish an inexhaustible field of occupation and amusement . Schneiderf's hotel is a magnificent establishment ; and though Florence may be better calculated for a summer residence , yet ...
... ancient and modern art are all around you , and furnish an inexhaustible field of occupation and amusement . Schneiderf's hotel is a magnificent establishment ; and though Florence may be better calculated for a summer residence , yet ...
Halaman 46
... ancient sculp- ture . First and foremost amongst these is " the statue that enchants the world " -the unimitated , inimita- ble Venus . She has now resumed her old station after her second visit to Paris ; -for I am surprised the French ...
... ancient sculp- ture . First and foremost amongst these is " the statue that enchants the world " -the unimitated , inimita- ble Venus . She has now resumed her old station after her second visit to Paris ; -for I am surprised the French ...
Halaman 49
... ancients in imitating the ease and simplicity of nature . The disposition of the reclining figure is so delightfully natural , that you feel afraid to ap- proach it , lest you should disturb its sleep . This felicity in catching the ...
... ancients in imitating the ease and simplicity of nature . The disposition of the reclining figure is so delightfully natural , that you feel afraid to ap- proach it , lest you should disturb its sleep . This felicity in catching the ...
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Halaman 23 - How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done...
Halaman 102 - You should not have believed me. For virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it.
Halaman 209 - My father's spirit in arms ! all is not well; I doubt some foul play: 'would, the night were come! Till then sit still, my soul: Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
Halaman 39 - For it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours...
Halaman 9 - It is a strange thing that in sea voyages, where there is nothing to be seen but sky and sea, men should make diaries ; but in land travel, wherein so much is to be observed, for the most part they omit it, as if chance were fitter to be registered than observation.
Halaman 106 - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Halaman 82 - Winter season does of our own. The only advantage of Italy then is, that your penance is shorter than it would be in England ; for I repeat, that during the time it lasts, Winter is more severely felt here, than at Sidmouth, where I would even recommend an Italian invalid to repair, from November till February ; — if he could possess himself of Fortunatus's cap, to remove the difficulties of the journey.
Halaman 132 - Caron dimonio, con occhi di bragia, Loro accennando, tutte le raccoglie: Batte col remo qualunque s
Halaman 231 - ... ritu florent modo nata vigentque. debemur morti nos nostraque: sive receptus terra Neptunus classes Aquilonibus arcet, regis opus...
Halaman 245 - As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.