Travels Through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorrain: Giving a True and Just Description of the Present State of Those Countries ...

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G. Keith, 1760
 

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Seite 27 - By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high; By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mounting flames, that lick the sky. Oft from her bowels massy rocks are thrown, And, shiver'd by the force, come piecemeal down.
Seite 19 - But grill as well has heat and whatever gods there were have blistered feet.) Vesuvius cover'd with the fruitful vine, Here flourish'd once, and ran with floods of wine: Here Bacchus oft to the cool shades...
Seite 225 - The vast events and enterprises fraught, And future wars revolving in his thought, Now near the banks of Rubicon he stood ; When, lo ! as he...
Seite 225 - She said ; and sunk within the closing shade : Astonishment and dread the chief invade ; Stiff rose his starting hair, he stood dismayed, And on the bank his slackening steps were stayed.
Seite 5 - Thy legs in buikins with a purple band. THYR. This bowl of milk, thefe cakes, (our' country fare,) For thee, Priapus, yearly we prepare, Becaufe a little garden is thy care*. But if the falling lambs increafe my fold, 50 Thy marble ftatue fhall be turn'd to gold. COR. Fair Galatea, with thy filver feet, O, whiter than the fwan, and more than Hybla fweet ; Tall as a poplar, taper as the bole, Come charm thy thepherd, and reftore my foul.
Seite 140 - Or shall I praise thy ports, or mention make Of the vast mound that binds the Lucrine lake? Or the disdainful sea, that, shut from thence, Roars round the structure, and invades the fence, There, where secure the Julian waters glide, Or where Avernus' jaws admit the Tyrrhene tide?
Seite 18 - Experience shews, that earthquakes, after any continued eruption of Vesuvius, are neither so frequent, nor produce such fatal effects as at other times. Hence the inhabitants are far from being alarmed at this mountain's vernal eruptions, when they are not violent ; and the air is so far from being rendered unhealthy by them, that Barra, a village at the foot of Vesuvius, near the sea, is remarkable for its | healthfulness.
Seite 35 - Very few of fuch unhappy perfons can bear the fight of black or blue, but feem delighted with red and green objects. They are alfo feized with an averfion to eating fruit or vegetables. A melancholy filence and a fixed eye are the firft fymptoms by which the bite of the tarantula difcovers...
Seite 24 - What rocks did ^Etna's bellowing mouth expire From her torn entrails ! and what floods of fire ! What clanks were heard, in German skies afar, Of arms, and armies rushing to the war ! Dire earthquakes rent the solid Alps below, And from their summits shook th...
Seite 166 - There crystal streams perpetual tenor keep, Nor food nor springs are wanting to thy sheep ; For, what the day devours, the nightly dew Shall to the morn in pearly drops renew.

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