The Island of Sardinia,: Including Pictures of the Manners and Customs of the Sardinians, and Notes on the Antiquities and Modern Objects of Interest in the Island: to which is Added Some Account of the House of Savoy, Volume 1Richard Bentley, 1849 |
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Page 109 - Where the car climb'd the Capitol; far and wide Temple and tower went down, nor left a site: — Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, 'Here was, or is', where all is doubly night?
Page 320 - And where, though all things differ, all agree. Here waving groves a chequer'd scene display, And part admit, and part exclude the day ; 'As some coy nymph her lover's warm address Nor quite indulges, nor can quite repress.
Page 84 - ... que no le ha leído puede hacer cuenta que no ha leído jamás cosa de gusto.
Page 277 - Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship ; It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence ; coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the housewife's wool.
Page 127 - ... long exposure. By breaking a little at the corners, we saw that there were different layers of stucco, doubtless put on at different times, and all had been ornamented with painted figures. In one place we made out part of the body of a leopard, well drawn and coloured.
Page 341 - The next day he anchored at Gibraltar; and on the 20th, says he, " I went on shore for the first time since June 16th, 1803 ; and from having my foot out of the Victory, two years, wanting ten days.
Page 127 - By breaking a little at the corners we saw that there were different layers of stucco, doubtless put on at different times, and all had been ornamented with painted figures. In one place we made out part of the body of a leopard, well drawn and coloured. The top of the Sacrificatorio is broken and ruined, but there is no doubt that it once supported an altar for those sacrifices of human victims which struck even the Spaniards with horror. It was barely large enough for the altar and officiating...
Page 132 - Tingitana with this inscription, " we are they who fled from the face of Joshua the robber, the son of Nane.
Page 127 - On three sides there is a range of steps in the middle, each step seventeen inches high, and but eight inches on the upper surface, which makes the range so steep that in descending some caution is necessary. At the corners are four buttresses of cut stone, diminishing in size from the line of the square, and apparently intended to support the structure. On the side facing the west there are no steps, but the surface is smooth and covered with stucco, gray from long exposure.
Page 335 - Malta, in point of position, is not to be named the same year with Sardinia. All the fine Ports of Sicily are situated on the Eastern side of the Island, consequently of no use to watch anything but the Faro of Messina. And, my Lord, I venture to predict, that if we do not — from delicacy, or commiseration of the lot of the unfortunate King of Sardinia — the French will, get possession of that Island. Sardinia is very little known. It was the policy of Piedmont to keep it in the background, and...