A View of Society and Manners in Italy: With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters, Volume 1W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1781 - Europe |
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Page 283 - Brings home to us, and makes both Indies ours : Finds wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants ; So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange.
Page 283 - Indies ours ; finds wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, cities in deserts, woods in cities, plants : so that to us no thing, no place, is strange, while his fair bosom is the world's exchange.
Page 32 - Together such as brethren are in unity to dwell! 2 Like precious ointment on the head, that down the beard did flow, Ev'n Aaron's beard, and to the skirts did of his garments go. 3 As Hermon's dew, the dew that doth on Sion' hills descend : For there the blessing God commands, life that shall never end.
Page 60 - ... of mind which many people are fond of, the place never fails to be well attended, and, in fine weather, numbers pass a great part of the night there.
Page 99 - Venetian empire : espouse the sea with this ring, and let the marriage be solemnized annually, by you and your successors, to the end of time, that the latest posterity may know that Venice has acquired the empire of the waves, and that the sea is subjected to you, as a wife is to her husband.
Page 32 - Montague held his nose over the steam for some minutes, and snuffed up the perfume with peculiar satisfaction ; he afterwards endeavoured to collect the smoke with his hands, spreading and rubbing it carefully along his beard, which hung in hoary ringlets to his girdle.
Page iii - A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany, were made. All who have read that book will perceive, at...
Page 249 - ... at Venice, and better opportunities than I have had, to enable me to give a character of the Venetians. But were I to form an idea of them from, what I have feen...
Page 283 - Nor then deftroys it with too fond a ftay, Like mothers which their infants overlay. Nor with a fudden and impetuous wave, Like profufe kings, refumes the wealth he gave. No unexpected inundations...
Page 280 - Caicus, 370 et gemina auratus taurino cornua vultu Eridanus, quo non alius per pinguia culta in mare purpureum violentior effluit amnis.