A View of Society and Manners in Italy, Volume 2 (of 2): With Anecdotes Relating to some Eminent CharactersMoore, John
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A View of Society and Manners in Italy, Volume 2 (of 2): With Anecdotes Relating to some Eminent Characters
Moore, John
Italy -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; Italy -- Social life and customs -- Early works to 1800
And the steep hills of Circe stretch around,
Where fair Feronia boasts her stately grove,
And Anxur glories in her guardian Jove;
Where stands the Pontine lake——
PITT.
107.
Whether is it best to go by the Numician or Appian way to
Brundusium?
108.
We willingly leave Fundi, where Alifidius Luscus is chief
magistrate.
108.
From whom the illustrious race arose,
Who first possessed the Formian towers.
FRANCIS.
_Ibid._
My cups are neither enriched with the juice of the Falernian
grapes, nor that of those from the Formian hills.
114.
——the rich fields that Liris laves,
Where silent roll his deepning waves.
FRANCIS.
116.
Pure spirits these; the world no purer knows;
For none my heart with such affection glows.
How oft did we embrace! our joys how great!
Is there a blessing, in the power of fate,
To be compared, in sanity of mind,
To friends of such companionable kind?
FRANCIS.
117.
Formerly called another Carthage, or another Rome; it now lies
buried in its own ruins.
124.
God forbid!
125.
Blessed Jesus!
126.
It is that which vexes me.
142.
My son laments, that he has not killed more than eighty birds
in one day, whereas, I should think myself the happiest man in
the world, if I could kill forty.
188.
The knight of Aglant now has couch’d his spear,
Where closely prest the men and arms appear:
First one, and then another, helpless dies;
Thro’ six at once the lance impetuous flies,
And in the seventh inflicts so deep a wound,
That prone he tumbles lifeless to the ground.
HOOLE.
188, 189.
Thus by some standing pool or marshy place,
We see an archer slay the croaking race
With pointed arrow, nor the slaughter leave,
Till the full weapon can no more receive.
HOOLE.
197.
Both Arcadians, but not equally skilled in singing.
216.
What inconsiderate fellow, to terrify people, could first
give the mournful name of tears to that wine which, above all
others, renders the heart glad, and excites cheerfulness?
277.
O illustrious memorial! O irrefragable truth! Come hither, ye
heretics! come hither, and be astonished, and open your eyes to
catholic and evangelic truth. The blood of St. Januarius alone
is a sufficient testimony of the truth. Is it possible, that
such a great and famous miracle does not convert all heretics
and infidels to the truths of the Roman Catholic church?
285.
’Sblood! it is still as hard as a stone.
304.
Virtue crowns him after many great achievements.
307.
All, all for the King’s amusement.
_Ibid._
Surely.
_Ibid._
Surely, surely.
314.
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