A Tour Through Sicily and Malta: In a Series of Letters to William Beckford ...Cadell & Davies, 1806 - 387 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 220 - What blessings thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away ; For God is paid when man receives, To enjoy is to obey.
Seite 361 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Seite 87 - That, chang'd thro' all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives thro
Seite 209 - Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Seite 87 - All are but parts of one ftupendous whole, Whofe body Nature is, and God the foul : That, chang'd thro' all, and yet in all the fame, Great in the earth, as in th...
Seite 253 - ... excited by these venerable figures, you only consider this as a vast gallery of original portraits, drawn after the life, by the justest and most unprejudiced hand. It must be owned that the colours are rather faded : and the pencil does not appear to have been the most flattering in the world But no matter, it is the pencil of truth and not of a mercenary, who only wants to please.
Seite 30 - That realm of old, a ruin huge, was rent In length of ages from the continent. "With force convulsive burst the isle away ; Through the dread opening broke the thund'ring sea : At once the thund'ring sea Sicilia tore.
Seite 248 - The windows of this inchanted caftle are compofed of a variety of glafs of every different colour, mixed without any fort of order or regularity. Blue, red, green, yellow, purple, violet. So that at each window, you may have the heavens and earth of whatever colour you chufe, only by looking through the pane that pleafes you. The...
Seite 113 - We now had time to examine a fourth region of this wonderful mountain, very different, indeed, from the others, and productive of very different fenfations ; but which has, undoubtedly, given being to all the reft ; I mean the region of fire.
Seite 246 - ... in the Revelations all to nothing. There is no kind of horn in the world that he has not collected; and his pleasure is to see them all flourishing upon the same head.