The Diary of an Invalid: Being the Journal of a Tour in Pursuit of Health, in Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, and France, in the Years 1817, 1818, and 1819, Svazek 1J. Murray, 1824 - Počet stran: 307 |
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Strana 8
... objects is not felt . A lovely night . - The moon , in this lati- tude , has a silvery brightness which we never see in England . — It was a night for romance ; -such as Shakspeare describes , when Troilus sighed his soul to absent ...
... objects is not felt . A lovely night . - The moon , in this lati- tude , has a silvery brightness which we never see in England . — It was a night for romance ; -such as Shakspeare describes , when Troilus sighed his soul to absent ...
Strana 24
... object of mysterious dread . And , truly , the sight of its gloomy prison -triplici circumdata muro - is sufficient to suggest the idea of that Infernal Tribunal of which Tisi- phone kept the gate , and Rhadamanthus admi- nistered the ...
... object of mysterious dread . And , truly , the sight of its gloomy prison -triplici circumdata muro - is sufficient to suggest the idea of that Infernal Tribunal of which Tisi- phone kept the gate , and Rhadamanthus admi- nistered the ...
Strana 75
... objects that are worthy of further examina- tion , and these may be afterwards studied at leisure . Of the great majority of sights , it must be confessed that all we obtain for our labour is the knowledge that they are not worth seeing ...
... objects that are worthy of further examina- tion , and these may be afterwards studied at leisure . Of the great majority of sights , it must be confessed that all we obtain for our labour is the knowledge that they are not worth seeing ...
Strana 84
... object to it as inade- quate . At the Pons Milvius however , now the Ponte Molle , the breadth increases ; and two miles above Rome , the river is nearly twice as broad as it is within the walls . This contraction of the stream within ...
... object to it as inade- quate . At the Pons Milvius however , now the Ponte Molle , the breadth increases ; and two miles above Rome , the river is nearly twice as broad as it is within the walls . This contraction of the stream within ...
Strana 92
... the pen in St. Mark's hand is six feet long , from which one may calculate their real stature . The fact is , that nothing is great or little but by comparison ; and where no familiar object exists to assist 92 [ DEC . St Peter's.
... the pen in St. Mark's hand is six feet long , from which one may calculate their real stature . The fact is , that nothing is great or little but by comparison ; and where no familiar object exists to assist 92 [ DEC . St Peter's.
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Strana 23 - How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done...
Strana 102 - You should not have believed me. For virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it.
Strana 209 - My father's spirit in arms ! all is not well; I doubt some foul play: 'would, the night were come! Till then sit still, my soul: Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
Strana 39 - For it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours...
Strana 9 - It is a strange thing that in sea voyages, where there is nothing to be seen but sky and sea, men should make diaries ; but in land travel, wherein so much is to be observed, for the most part they omit it, as if chance were fitter to be registered than observation.
Strana 106 - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Strana 82 - Winter season does of our own. The only advantage of Italy then is, that your penance is shorter than it would be in England ; for I repeat, that during the time it lasts, Winter is more severely felt here, than at Sidmouth, where I would even recommend an Italian invalid to repair, from November till February ; — if he could possess himself of Fortunatus's cap, to remove the difficulties of the journey.
Strana 132 - Caron dimonio, con occhi di bragia, Loro accennando, tutte le raccoglie: Batte col remo qualunque s
Strana 231 - ... ritu florent modo nata vigentque. debemur morti nos nostraque: sive receptus terra Neptunus classes Aquilonibus arcet, regis opus...
Strana 245 - As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.