Voyages and travels in the years 1809, 1810 and 1811, containing observations on Gibraltar, Sardinia, Sicily, Malta, Scrigo and Turkey. [on large paper, cm.28.].1812 |
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Voyages and Travels in the Years 1809, 1810 and 1811, Containing ... John Galt Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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Seite 183 - For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
Seite 432 - Les traités ou capitulations qui, avant l'époque de la guerre, déterminaient respectivement les rapports de toute espèce qui existaient entre les deux Puissances, sont en entier renouvelés. En conséquence de ce renouvellement, et en exécution des articles des anciennes capitulations, en vertu desquels les Français ont le droit de jouir dans les États de la Sublime...
Seite 236 - IN the course of walking round this city, we had occasion to pass through one of the cemeteries ; but the horrible effluvia from the graves obliged us to alter our course. The Turks do not make use of coffins. Having deposited the dead, they place over the body a few thin pieces of wood, and then cover it with earth. Heavy rain has often the effect of opening passages down to the putrefying mass, occasioning that pernicious and terrible smell which we experienced, and to which may, in some degree,...
Seite 94 - The effect of the sonato, which is performed in order to show the whole genius of the instrument, may be compared to the course of a river from the fountain-head to the sea. It begins with a sweet little trilling movement, like the sound of waters trickling in a far remote pastoral upland. The breadth of harmony increases, and the mind is excited to activity, while the introduction of a delightful echo suggests the images of a rapid stream, und bands of huntsmen, with horns and hounds, coursing the...
Seite 37 - ... me shy of entering into conversation with him, and the procession entering the church at the same time, he walked, or was forced by the current of the crowd, away. The idol being placed near the high altar, the crowd began to chant a hymn. As they all fell on their knees, and my tight prejudices and small clothes would not permit me to do the same, i turned into one of the side chapels, and, leaning against the railing of the altar, began to speculate on the spectacle before me, when the stranger...
Seite 47 - ... rock, where there is but room for himself and his dog, which he has fed with bread only, all the year round, for these delightful days, and which sits, in as happy expectation as himself, for the arrival of the Quails.
Seite 163 - Greek archbishop's house may not be called a palace, and himself a Grace, as well as any other metropolitan) is singularly fine. It stands high, on the side of the hill on which the town is built, and commands a view of the whole long hollow valley of Sparta, the most fertile and beautiful tract of the Morea, The archbishop kept two horses, both excellent and handsome, which Vilhi Pashaw hearing of, sent and took one of them away. I ought not to omit mentioning my being told by his Grace's brother,...
Seite 253 - How these antique towers And vacant courts chill the suspended soul, Till expectation wears the cast of fear ; And fear, half-ready to become devotion, Mumbles a kind of mental orison, It knows not wherefore.
Seite 267 - The air was pure, and the soil, watered by some invaluable springs, was capable of producing fruits as well as corn. A place possessed of such singular advantages, and situated at a convenient distance...
Seite 9 - A feudal animosity oJLthis kind, which had lasted upwards of half a century, was lately pacified by the interference of a Monk. The armies of the two villages, amounting each to about four hundred men, were on an appointed day drawn out in order of battle, front to front, and musquets loaded. Not far from the spot the Monk had a third host prepared, consisting of his own brethren, with all the crucifixes and images that they could muster. He addressed the...