The Poems and Letters of Thomas GrayR. Priestley, 1820 - 537 pages |
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Page iii
... Rome . First and pleasing appearance of an Italian spring 18. To his MOTHER . Cathedral of Sienna . Viterbo . Distant sight of Rome . The Tiber . Entrance into the city . St. Peter's . Intro- duction of the Cardinal d'Auvergne into the ...
... Rome . First and pleasing appearance of an Italian spring 18. To his MOTHER . Cathedral of Sienna . Viterbo . Distant sight of Rome . The Tiber . Entrance into the city . St. Peter's . Intro- duction of the Cardinal d'Auvergne into the ...
Page 66
... Rome will be in all its glory . Friday next we certainly begin our journey ; in two days we shall come to the foot of the Alps , and six more we shall be in passing them . Even here the winter is begun ; what then must it be among those ...
... Rome will be in all its glory . Friday next we certainly begin our journey ; in two days we shall come to the foot of the Alps , and six more we shall be in passing them . Even here the winter is begun ; what then must it be among those ...
Page 82
... Rome on Monday next . The conclave is still sitting there , and likely to continue so some time longer , as the two French cardinals are but just arrived , and the German ones are still expect- ed . It agrees mighty ill with those that ...
... Rome on Monday next . The conclave is still sitting there , and likely to continue so some time longer , as the two French cardinals are but just arrived , and the German ones are still expect- ed . It agrees mighty ill with those that ...
Page 83
... Rome , April 2 , N. S. 1740 . THIS is the third day since we came to Rome , but the first hour I have had to write to you in . The journey from Florence cost us four days , one of which was spent at Sienna , an agreeable , clean , old ...
... Rome , April 2 , N. S. 1740 . THIS is the third day since we came to Rome , but the first hour I have had to write to you in . The journey from Florence cost us four days , one of which was spent at Sienna , an agreeable , clean , old ...
Page 85
... Rome made more considerable than any merit of its own could have done : how- ever , it is not contemptibly small , but a good handsome stream ; very deep , yet somewhat of a muddy complexion . The first entrance of Rome is prodigiously ...
... Rome made more considerable than any merit of its own could have done : how- ever , it is not contemptibly small , but a good handsome stream ; very deep , yet somewhat of a muddy complexion . The first entrance of Rome is prodigiously ...
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