A View of Society and Manners in Italy: With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters. By John Moore, M.D. In Two Volumes. ...W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1781 - Character sketches |
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... streets of Naples : -Street Orators and Hiftorians . - Improu- vifatories . - Signora Corilla . - Senfibility of Italians . - English Gentlemen of the Ton . -A Neapolitan Mountebank . LETTER LXI . p . 204 . A vifit to Mount Vesuvius ...
... streets of Naples : -Street Orators and Hiftorians . - Improu- vifatories . - Signora Corilla . - Senfibility of Italians . - English Gentlemen of the Ton . -A Neapolitan Mountebank . LETTER LXI . p . 204 . A vifit to Mount Vesuvius ...
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... street , a young woman at a window exclaimed , " Quanto e bello ! " O quanto e bello ! " and was immediately answered by a zealous old lady at the win- dow oppofite , who , folding her hands in each other , and raifing her eyes to ...
... street , a young woman at a window exclaimed , " Quanto e bello ! " O quanto e bello ! " and was immediately answered by a zealous old lady at the win- dow oppofite , who , folding her hands in each other , and raifing her eyes to ...
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... street , called the Corfo , is the great fcene of these masquerades . It is crowded every night with people of all conditions : Those of rank come in coaches , or in open carriages , made on purpose . A kind of civil war is carried on ...
... street , called the Corfo , is the great fcene of these masquerades . It is crowded every night with people of all conditions : Those of rank come in coaches , or in open carriages , made on purpose . A kind of civil war is carried on ...
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... street , prevents them from ftarting too foon : the dropping that canvas is the fignal for the race to begin . The horfes fly off together , and , without riders , exert themselves to the utmoft ; impelled by emulation , the shouts of ...
... street , prevents them from ftarting too foon : the dropping that canvas is the fignal for the race to begin . The horfes fly off together , and , without riders , exert themselves to the utmoft ; impelled by emulation , the shouts of ...
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... street . All the other statues of the Virgin , which are placed in the streets , are ferenaded in the fame manner every Christmas morning . On my enquiring into the meaning of that ceremony , I was told the above - mentioned ...
... street . All the other statues of the Virgin , which are placed in the streets , are ferenaded in the fame manner every Christmas morning . On my enquiring into the meaning of that ceremony , I was told the above - mentioned ...
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Page 59 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes...
Page 58 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 59 - And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody?
Page 59 - Canst thou, O partial sleep! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude; And, in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king ? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 46 - Theinftantheappearedj the mtific ftruck up, the bells rung from every church, and the cannon thundered from the caftle of St. Angelo, in repeated peals. During the intervals, the church of St. Peter's, the palace of the Vatican, and the banks of the Tiber, re-echoed the acclamations of the populace. At length his Holinefs arofe from his feat, and an immediate and awful filence enfued.
Page 293 - People of fafhion generally drive through this paffage with torches, but the country people and foot paflengers find their way without much difficulty by the light which enters at the extremities, and at two holes pierced through the mountain near the middle of the grotto, which admit light from above.
Page 479 - Nay, do not think I flatter; For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter'd? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.
Page 494 - And he will be a wild man; and his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Page 500 - Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. Strenua nos exercet inertia : navibus atque Quadrigis petimus bene vivere. Quod petis hic est, Est Ulubris, animus si te non deficit aequus.
Page 100 - Goddess, and queen, to whom the powers belong Of dreadful magic, and commanding song. Some God directing, to this peaceful bay Silent we came, and melancholy lay, Spent and o'erwatch'd. Two days and nights roll'd on, And now the third succeeding morning shone.