A Tour Through Sicily and Malta: In a Series of Letters to William Beckford, Esq. of Somerly in SuffolkR. Chapman ... Sold by the different booksellers of London, Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1817 - Malta - 280 pages |
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... believe , a healthier climate . Naples , to be sure , is more eligible in summer , as the air is constantly re- freshed by the sea breeze , when Rome is often scorched by the most insupportable heat . Last summer , Fahrenheit's ...
... believe , a healthier climate . Naples , to be sure , is more eligible in summer , as the air is constantly re- freshed by the sea breeze , when Rome is often scorched by the most insupportable heat . Last summer , Fahrenheit's ...
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... it would require , I am afraid , too great a stretch of faith to believe me ; yet the fact is certain , and can only be doubted by those who have wanted time or curiosity to examine it . It is B 3 SICILY AND MALTA . 17.
... it would require , I am afraid , too great a stretch of faith to believe me ; yet the fact is certain , and can only be doubted by those who have wanted time or curiosity to examine it . It is B 3 SICILY AND MALTA . 17.
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... believe there is much more to be seen about it . 20th at night . After dinner our depute- consul ( a Sicilian ) carried us to several convents , where we were received by the nuns with great politeness and affability . We conversed with ...
... believe there is much more to be seen about it . 20th at night . After dinner our depute- consul ( a Sicilian ) carried us to several convents , where we were received by the nuns with great politeness and affability . We conversed with ...
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... believe what Homer says of the ship of Ulysses . We have been again to take a view of the Straits at this famous whirlpool , and are more and more convinced that it must be infinitely diminished ; indeed , in comparison of what it was ...
... believe what Homer says of the ship of Ulysses . We have been again to take a view of the Straits at this famous whirlpool , and are more and more convinced that it must be infinitely diminished ; indeed , in comparison of what it was ...
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... believe , that so vast a space was once occupied by solid timber . But there is no appearance of bark on the inside of any of the stumps , nor on the sides that are opposite to one another . Mr. Glover and I measured it separately , and ...
... believe , that so vast a space was once occupied by solid timber . But there is no appearance of bark on the inside of any of the stumps , nor on the sides that are opposite to one another . Mr. Glover and I measured it separately , and ...
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Adieu Æneid Ætna Agrigentum amongst ancient antiquity appear Arethusa assure Bagaria beautiful believe betwixt body burning-glasses Calabria called Capo Passero capuchin Catania caverns celebrated Ceres certainly church coast comet considerable crater Cyclops degree delightful distance earth electrical elegant Empedocles eruption Fazzello feet finest fire give grand master greatest half harbour heard heat hundred imagine immense island Italy kind lady lava LETTER likewise looked luxury magnificent Malta matter ment Messina miles Mount Etna mountain Naples never night noble object obliged observed palace Palermo Pasqual passed perhaps pieces port pretend prince probably produced quantity Recupero region rock Rosolia round ruins saint seems seen ships Sicilian Sicily side singular sirocco soon Strombolo supposed sure Syracuse temple thing thousand tion told treme variety vast viceroy violent Virgil volcano whole wind
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Page 120 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. To Him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.
Page 206 - Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Page 41 - Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms, And here Charybdis fills the deep with storms. When the tide rushes from her rumbling caves The rough rock roars ; tumultuous boil the waves ; They toss, they foam, a wild confusion raise, Like waters bubbling o'er the fiery blaze...
Page 120 - All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul : That changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 103 - ... of lavas, with earth to a considerable thickness over the surface of each stratum. Recupero has made use of this as an argument to prove the great antiquity of the eruptions of this mountain. For if it requires two thousand years, or upwards, to form but a scanty soil on the surface of a lava...
Page 71 - The air, strongly impregnated with this matter, and confined betwixt two ridges of mountains — at the same time exceedingly agitated from below by the violence of the current, and the impetuous whirling of the waters — may it not be supposed to produce a variety of appearances ? And may not the lively Sicilian imaginations, animated by a belief in demons, and all the wild offspring of superstition, give these appearances as great a variety of forms ? Remember, I do not say it is so ; and hope...
Page 151 - Strombolo, and Volcano, with their smoking summits, appear under your feet ; and you look down on the whole of Sicily as on a map ; and can trace every river through all its windings, from its source to its mouth.
Page 58 - ... that he had confidence in them, had cause to repent of it, or was injured by any of them in the most minute trifle ; but on the contrary, they will protect him from impositions of every kind, and scorn to go halves with the landlord, like most other conductors and travelling servants ; and will defend him with their lives, if there is occasion.
Page 157 - ... have issued ; the force of its internal fire, to raise up those lavas to so vast a height, to support as it were in the air, and even to force them over the very summit of the crater, with all the dreadful accompaniments ; the boiling of the matter, the shaking of the mountain, the explosion of flaming rocks, &c.; we must allow that the most enthusiastic imagination, in the midst of all its terrors, hardly ever formed an idea of a hell more dreadful.
Page 104 - Eecupero tells me he is exceedingly embarrassed by these discoveries in writing the history of the mountain. — That Moses' hangs like a dead weight upon him, and blunts all his zeal for inquiry; for that really he has not the conscience to make his mountain so young as that prophet makes the world.