A Tour Through Sicily and Malta, in a Series of Letters to William Beckford, Esq. of Somerly in SuffolkAbernethy & Walker, 1809 - 358 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Adieu Ætna Agrigentum amongst ancient appear Arethusa assure Bagaria beautiful believe betwixt body Calabria called Catania caverns celebrated Ceres Charybdis church coast comet considerable crater curious Cyclops degree delightful distance dreadful earth electrical entertainment eruption Eryx esteemed exceedingly expence Fazzello feet finest fire give greatest half heard heat height hundred imagine immense island Italy kind ladies lava LETTER likewise magnificent Malta matter Messina miles Mount Etna Mount Vesuvius mountain Naples never night nobility noble object obliged observed palace Palermo Pasqual perhaps pleasure poets pretend prince prince of Biscaris probably produced quantity Recupero region rock round ruins saint says Scylla seems seen shew ships Sicilian Sicily side singular Sirocc snow soon St Rosolia Straits Strombolo summit supposed temple thing tion told trees variety vast Vesuvius viceroy Virgil volcano whole wind
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Página 80 - 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.
Página 80 - 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!
Página 192 - 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.
Página 100 - All appears enchantment ; and it is with difficulty we can believe we are still on earth. — The senses, unaccustomed to the sublimity of such a scene, are bewildered and confounded...
Página 100 - Both sea and land looked dark and confused, as if only emerging from their original chaos, and light and darkness seemed still undivided ; till the morning, by degrees advancing, completed the separation. The stars are extinguished, and the shades disappear.
Página 302 - 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...
Página 180 - Aboqt three quarters of an hour after midnight, there appeared to the south-west of the city a great black cloud, which, as it approached,, changed its colour, till at last it became like a flame of fire, mixed with black smoke. A dreadful noise was heard on its approach, that alarmed the whole city. It passed over...
Página 333 - 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.
Página 236 - ... years, yet none are reduced to skeletons. The muscles, indeed, in some appear to be a good deal more shrunk than in others ; probably because these persons had been more extenuated at the time of their death. Here the people of Palermo pay daily visits to their deceased friends, and recall with pleasure and regret the scenes of their past life.
Página 47 - 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...