A Tour Through Sicily and Malta: In a Series of Letters to William Beckford ...Strahan and Cadell, 1774 - 355 Seiten |
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... fome of these mortars are about fix feet wide , and they are faid to throw a hundred . cantars of cannon - ball or ftones . A cantar is , I think , about a hundred pound weight ;. so that if they do take place , they must make a ...
... fome of these mortars are about fix feet wide , and they are faid to throw a hundred . cantars of cannon - ball or ftones . A cantar is , I think , about a hundred pound weight ;. so that if they do take place , they must make a ...
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... fome nymphs ; but as neither Calypfo nor Eucharis seemed to be of the number , we paid little atten- tion to them , and I was in no apprehension about my Telemachus : Indeed , it would have required an imagination as strong as Don ...
... fome nymphs ; but as neither Calypfo nor Eucharis seemed to be of the number , we paid little atten- tion to them , and I was in no apprehension about my Telemachus : Indeed , it would have required an imagination as strong as Don ...
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... ( fome of them more ) and are covered with flowers from top to bottom ; which taper regularly , and form a beautiful kind of py- ramid , the bafe or pedestal of which is the fine spreading leaves of the plant . As this is esteemed in ...
... ( fome of them more ) and are covered with flowers from top to bottom ; which taper regularly , and form a beautiful kind of py- ramid , the bafe or pedestal of which is the fine spreading leaves of the plant . As this is esteemed in ...
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... affected or ftudied , the whole ftrikes the eye at once , and pleases very much . The columns are , indeed , fhorter than the common Doric proportions ; and and they certainly are not fo elegant as fome of SICILY AND MALTA .
... affected or ftudied , the whole ftrikes the eye at once , and pleases very much . The columns are , indeed , fhorter than the common Doric proportions ; and and they certainly are not fo elegant as fome of SICILY AND MALTA .
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... fome of the ancient temples near Rome , and in other places in Italy . The third temple is that of Hercules , altogether in ruins ; but appears to have been of a much greater fize than the former two . We measured fome of the broken ...
... fome of the ancient temples near Rome , and in other places in Italy . The third temple is that of Hercules , altogether in ruins ; but appears to have been of a much greater fize than the former two . We measured fome of the broken ...
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