An Autumn in Sicily: Being an Account of the Principal Remains of Antiquity Existing in that Island, with Short Sketches of Its Ancient and Modern History ...Hodges and Smith, 1850 - 260 من الصفحات |
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Ætna AGRIGENTUM Agropoli Alcamo amongst ANCIENT THEATRE appearance arrived Athenians beautiful boat breadth British Bronte Calabria called Capo Captain Cariati Carlentini carried Castro-Giovanni Catania celebrated church Circumference of columns coast crater distance English eruption Etna existence extremely feet formed French Giarre Girgenti ground Gylippus harbour height hill inhabitants island Ispica King latter lava leave length Lipari Lord Lord Palmerston Messina miles Monte Rosso mountain mules Naples Neapolitan Nicolosi night object occupied once ornament ourselves Pæstum Palermo passed persons pillars plain Prince principal proceeded Provisional Government reached Reggio remains remarkable road rock ruins seen Selinus September shore short Sicilian Sicilian Vespers Sicily Siculiana side soon spot stands stone stood straits stream of lava Stromboli summit Syracuse tain Taormina tarì Tauromenium temple tent tion took town Trapani trees triglyphs troops vessels village walls wind
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الصفحة 91 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths : all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
الصفحة 94 - Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
الصفحة 206 - Zeusi l' imagine far volse. Che por dovea nel Tempio di Giunone, E tante belle nude insieme accolse; E che per una farne in perfezione, Da chi una parte e da chi un'altra tolse; Non avea da tórre altra che costei; Che tutte le bellezze erano in lei.
الصفحة 116 - ... and ashes to prevent its thawing. It is brought down on mules to the coast at night, in panniers covered with leaves. The revenue derived from this source is immense, and renders the Prince of Patern6 one of the richest men in Sicily.
الصفحة 90 - that the Argonautic expedition was a real event, and occurred BC 937; that Hercules was a real person, and delivered Theseus, another real person, BC 936; that in the year 1036 Ceres, a woman of Sicily, in seeking her daughter who was stolen, came into Attica, and there taught the Greeks to sow corn.
الصفحة 143 - Been girdling the volcano with a belt of the brightest green, interspersed with innumerable cones, filled witli luxuriant foliage ; " while streams of lava radiating in every direction traverse the forest, like black roads, the highways of destruction to the country beneath.
الصفحة 244 - ... appeared to be from thirty to forty feet in depth, and some notion of its aspect and progress may be formed by imagining a hill of loose stones of all sizes, the summit or brow of which is continually falling to the base, and as constantly renewed by unseen pressure from behind. Down it came in large masses, each leaving behind it a fiery track, as the red-hot interior was for a moment or two exposed. The impression most strongly left on my mind was that of its irresistible force. It did not...
الصفحة 244 - The lava appeared to be from thirty to forty feet in depth, and some notion of its aspect and progress may be formed by imagining a hill of loose stones of all sizes, the summit or brow of which is continually falling to the base, and as constantly renewed by unseen pressure from behind.
الصفحة 171 - Thanks to your exertions," said he, writing to Sir W. and Lady Hamilton, "we have victualled and watered; and surely watering at the fountain of Arethusa, we must have victory. We shall sail with the first breeze; and be assured I will return either crowned with laurel or covered with cypress.
الصفحة 94 - Sicily, but there is not perhaps any part of the globe of similar extent so uniformly rugged. Vgl. ferner S. 241. 246. 290 u. öfter. S. 3. Als südlichsten Punkt Siciliens giebt Smyth Append, p. 38 an: Current Island bei С. Passaro : 36" 38' 10"; als nördlichsten: C. Rasaculmo : 38" 17' 56