A View of Society and Manners in Italy: With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters, Volume 2A. Strahan and T. Cadell: And sold, 1795 |
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... connected with her family by blood or alliance, were carried in procession, except those of her brother and husband. This deficiency struck the people go VIEW OF SOCIETY AND their minds with more force MANNERS IN ITALY. 79.
... connected with her family by blood or alliance, were carried in procession, except those of her brother and husband. This deficiency struck the people go VIEW OF SOCIETY AND their minds with more force MANNERS IN ITALY. 79.
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... husband, a dutiful son, and an indulgent father. The Queen of Naples is a beautiful woman, and seems to possess the affability, good-humour, and benevolence, which distinguish, in such an amiable manner, the Austrian . . •-• b c family ...
... husband, a dutiful son, and an indulgent father. The Queen of Naples is a beautiful woman, and seems to possess the affability, good-humour, and benevolence, which distinguish, in such an amiable manner, the Austrian . . •-• b c family ...
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... husband their strength at the beginning, have reason to repent their imprudence, being obliged to throw many a longing look, and make many a fruitless vow, before they, with the wretched guide who lugs them along, can arrive, panting ...
... husband their strength at the beginning, have reason to repent their imprudence, being obliged to throw many a longing look, and make many a fruitless vow, before they, with the wretched guide who lugs them along, can arrive, panting ...
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... much trouble in passing over the rough valley between that and the Hermitage, near which the mules waited. I ought to be ashamed, however, to mention i96 VIEW OF SOCIETY AND child, accompanied her husband as MANNERS IN ITALY. 195.
... much trouble in passing over the rough valley between that and the Hermitage, near which the mules waited. I ought to be ashamed, however, to mention i96 VIEW OF SOCIETY AND child, accompanied her husband as MANNERS IN ITALY. 195.
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... husband as far as the Hermitage, and was then with difficulty persuaded to go back 'r the other actually went to the summit, and returned with the rest of the company. Before we set out for Naples, we were refreshed, at a little inn at ...
... husband as far as the Hermitage, and was then with difficulty persuaded to go back 'r the other actually went to the summit, and returned with the rest of the company. Before we set out for Naples, we were refreshed, at a little inn at ...
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Page 52 - larum bell ? 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...
Page 53 - 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 52 - 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 deaf ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes...
Page 77 - Christmas morning, when I was looking at two poor Calabrian pipers, doing their utmost to please her and the infant in her arms. They played for a full hour to one of her images, which stands at the corner of a street. All the other statues...
Page 440 - 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 149 - Pausilippo^ in huts, or in caverns or chambers dug out of that mountain. Some gain a livelihood by fishing, others by carrying burdens to and from the shipping; many walk about the streets ready to run on errands, or to perform any labour in their power for a very small recompense.
Page 52 - Nature's foft nurfe, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And fteep my fenfes in forgetfulnefs ? Why rather...
Page 76 - The fenfibility of fome of the audience gave me an idea of the power of founds, which the dulnefs of my own auditory nerves could never have conveyed to my mind. At certain airs, filent...
Page 56 - IN their external deportment, the Italians have a grave folemnity of manner, which is fometimes thought to arife from a natural gloominefs of difpofition. The French, above all other nations, are apt to impute to melancholy, the ft date ferious air which accompanies reflection.
Page 41 - VOL. 11. a the air, like a celestial being. The instant he appeared, the music struck up, the bells rung from every church, and the cannon thundered from the castle 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 holiness arose from his seat, and an immediate and awful silence ensued.