A Tour Through Sicily and Malta: In a Series of Letters to William Beckford, Esq. of Somerly in Suffolk; from P. Brydone, ...J. G. A. Stoupe; and sold by Barrois, junior, 1780 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Æneid Ætna affure againſt almoſt ancient appears aſhes beautiful befides beſt betwixt Calabria Catania cauſe caverns celebrated Charybdis coaft compoſed confiderable crater Cyclops defcription diſcharged diſtance eruption faid fame fays feems feen feet feven feveral fhall fhew fide filk fince fineſt fingular fire firocc firſt fituation fize fnow fome foon formed ftill ftones fuch fummit fuppofed fure furrounded greateſt gulph himſelf houſe immenfe increaſed iſland juſt laft laſt lava leaſt likewife Malta maſter Meffina miles moft moſt mount Etna mountain muſt myſelf Naples never obferved occafion ourſelves paffage paffed perfon perfuaded pleaſe pleaſure poffible prefent prieſt purpoſe raiſed reaſon Recupero refpect region rife rock Scylla ſea ſee ſeems ſeen ſeveral ſhall ſhip ſhould Sicilian Sicily ſmall ſome ſpot ſtate ſtill ſtory Straits Strombolo thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion told uſe vaſt Vefuvius vifit volcano whole wind
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 106 - 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
עמוד 15 - Naples, with its three cadles, its harbour full of fliips from every nation, its palaces, churches, and convents innumerable. The rich country from thence to Portici, covered with noble houfes and gardens, and appearing only a continuation of the city. The palace of the king, with many others...
עמוד 139 - ... under our feet : A fcene that is not uncommon in thefe exalted regions, and which I have already feen on the top of the high Alps : But the clouds were foon difpelled again by the force of the wind, and we were difappointed in our expectations. I had often been told of the great effect produced by difcharging a gun on the top of high mountains.
עמוד 225 - Thefe extend for a great many miles ; and raife our aitonifhment to think that fo fmall a ftate has ever been able to make them. One fide of the ifland is fo completely fortified by nature, that there was nothing left for art. The rock is of a great height, and abfolutely perpendicular from the fea for feveral miles. It is very fingular, that on this fide there are ftill the...
עמוד 136 - It is not smooth and even like the greatest part of the latter ; but is finely variegated by an infinite number of those beautiful little mountains that have been formed by the different eruptions of JEtna.
עמוד 109 - The firft region furrounds the foot of the mountain, and conftitutes the moft fertile country in the world on all fides of it, to the extent of about fourteen or fifteen miles, where the woody region begins.
עמוד 81 - I was defirous to fee what form it had aflumed in meeting with the water. I went to examine it, and found it had driven back the waves for upwards of a mile, and had formed a large black high promontory, where before it was deep water. This lava, I imagined, from its...
עמוד 61 - He fays, the heavens appear crowded with a variety of objects : He mentions palaces, woods, gardens, &c. befides the figures of men, and other animals, that appear in motion amongft them* No doubt, the imagination muft be greatly aiding, in forming this aerial creation ; but as fo many of their authors, both ancient and modern, agree in the fact, and give an account of it from their own obfervation, there certainly muft be fome foundation for the ftory. There is one Giardina, a Jefuit, who has lately...
עמוד 55 - We ufed to admire the dexterity of fome of the divers at Naples, when they went to the depth of forty-eight or fifty feet, and could not conceive how a man could remain three minutes under water without drawing breath ; but thefe are nothing to the feats of one Colas, a native of this place, who is faid to have lived for...
עמוד 50 - Who, who, both by his looks and language, feems to be of the fame worthy fraternity. He tells us, that he has ordered our muleteers, at their peril, to be ready by daybreak ; but that we need not go till we think proper ; for it is their bufinefs to attend on noftri eccellenzi.