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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... most flourishing æra of the arts , and goods finished in a very carelefs and hurried manner , to anfwer the conftant demand , and fuit the dimenfions of every purfe . We must have a very high idea of the number of flatues of one kind or ...
... most flourishing æra of the arts , and goods finished in a very carelefs and hurried manner , to anfwer the conftant demand , and fuit the dimenfions of every purfe . We must have a very high idea of the number of flatues of one kind or ...
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... most proper in which the all - conquering god of strength could be reprefented . Reft im- plies fatigue , and fatigue ftrength ex- hausted . A repofing Hercules is almost a contra- contradiction . Invincible activity , and in ...
... most proper in which the all - conquering god of strength could be reprefented . Reft im- plies fatigue , and fatigue ftrength ex- hausted . A repofing Hercules is almost a contra- contradiction . Invincible activity , and in ...
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... most beauti- ful youth that ever lived . The ftatue of Apollo reprefents fome- thing fuperior , and the emotions it excites are all of the fublime caft . LETTER XLVII . Rome . TH HE prefent Pope , 20 VIEW OF SOCIETY AND.
... most beauti- ful youth that ever lived . The ftatue of Apollo reprefents fome- thing fuperior , and the emotions it excites are all of the fublime caft . LETTER XLVII . Rome . TH HE prefent Pope , 20 VIEW OF SOCIETY AND.
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... most respect- able of the spectators confidered as perfect- ly frivolous many things which formerly had been held as facred . A man of good fense may seem to lay the greatest weight on ceremonies which he himself confiders as ridiculous ...
... most respect- able of the spectators confidered as perfect- ly frivolous many things which formerly had been held as facred . A man of good fense may seem to lay the greatest weight on ceremonies which he himself confiders as ridiculous ...
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... most of his bro- ther cardinals , it is the more probable that he owed his elevation to this part of his character , which rendered him a proper perfon to check the progrefs of abuses that had been entirely neglected by the late Pope ...
... most of his bro- ther cardinals , it is the more probable that he owed his elevation to this part of his character , which rendered him a proper perfon to check the progrefs of abuses that had been entirely neglected by the late Pope ...
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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.
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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.