Letters from the LevantM. Cadell, 1813 |
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Albanians amusement antient antiquity appearance architecture Argos arrived Athenian Athens battle battle of Baugé battle of Verneuil beautiful boat British building Captain castle Christian church Colonel command Constantinople Corinth course cultivated degree dress Duke Earl effect Egina Egypt English enquired father formed fortress four France French friar Governor Greece Greeks harbour hills honour horses hundred Idra India inhabitants island Italian Jacomo King land less LETTER Lord Malta manner Megara ment miles monastery Morea morning mosch mountains Myconi nations night obliged observed Ottoman Pashaw passed Patrass port possession present priest racter resemblance respect returned road round Royal Scots ruins Scalanova Scio Scotish Guards Scotland seen sent Septinsular Republic ship shore situated Smyrna surprized temple thing thousand souls tion town travellers Tripolizza Turkish Turks Valona vessel village Vizier voyage wind wine women Zante
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Seite 350 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well : For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored and unsung.
Seite 350 - From wandering on a foreign strand ! — If such there breathe, go, mark him well ; For him no minstrel raptures swell,; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch...
Seite 350 - Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand!
Seite 45 - Bank for the amount of the loan, and which, if not redeemed within a certain specified time, was sold, and the proceeds applied to the payment of the debt.
Seite 148 - ... the harvest; going forth before the dawn of day, and returning joyous on the close of their labour. If shepherds, they live on the mountains, in the vale, or the plain, as the varying seasons require, under arbours or...
Seite 222 - ... have no likeness to those ideas / which they nevertheless renew. The influence of painting and sculpture on the mind is like that of oratory, which persuades by the statement of truths : the power of poetry and music is felt like that of magic, which calls up spirits, and produces miraculous effects by the mixing of certain ingredients curiously culled. As the orator cannot state a truth justly and perspicuously, without obtaining an immediate concurrence in opinion from his auditors, so the...
Seite 148 - It is chiefly their business to plough, sow, and reap ; dig, fence, plant, and prune the vineyard ; attend the watering of the olive-tree, and gather in the harvest ; going forth before the dawn of day, and returning contented on the close of their labour. If shepherds, they live in the mountains, in the vale, or the plain, as the varying seasons require, under arbours or sheds covered with boughs, tending their flocks abroad, or milking the ewes and she-goats at the fold, and making cheese and butter...
Seite 121 - Patriotism here more pathetically deplore the inevitable effects of individual corruption on public glory ; but to the traveller who rests for recreation, or who seeks a solace for misfortune, how wretched, how solitary, how empty is Athens ! Yours, &c.
Seite 112 - I cannot describe the modern city of Athens in fewer words than by saying that it looks as if two or three ill-built villages had been rudely swept together at the foot of the north side of the Acropolis, and enclosed by a garden wall, three or four miles in circumference.
Seite 345 - I take great pleasure in pulling him down : I remind him of the subjugation of the Greeks by the Romans, and of their degraded situation under the Turks, both of which facts I aver are positive proofs that with all their pretensions to superiority, they are really an inferior race.