The Shores and Islands of the Mediterranean, Volume 1Fisher, Son & Company, 1840 - 156 páginas |
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George Newenham Wright. TEMPLE AND FOUNTAIN AT ZAGHWAN . 55 a temporary dungeon of Maltese visiters . It is situated on a small island in the Marchamette , and consists of three cheerless apartments , measuring altogether one hundred and ...
George Newenham Wright. TEMPLE AND FOUNTAIN AT ZAGHWAN . 55 a temporary dungeon of Maltese visiters . It is situated on a small island in the Marchamette , and consists of three cheerless apartments , measuring altogether one hundred and ...
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... Maltese history : about one thousand five hundred years before the birth of Christ , fabulous accounts call the gigantic race that fed on this barren rock , Phæacians , who , according to the same authorities , were expelled by the ...
... Maltese history : about one thousand five hundred years before the birth of Christ , fabulous accounts call the gigantic race that fed on this barren rock , Phæacians , who , according to the same authorities , were expelled by the ...
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... Maltese history presents a blank tableau : but again affliction visited the land , the plunderers slew the husbands , and seized their treasure , selling their wives and children as slaves , and placing the island under the government ...
... Maltese history presents a blank tableau : but again affliction visited the land , the plunderers slew the husbands , and seized their treasure , selling their wives and children as slaves , and placing the island under the government ...
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... Maltese history , that records the gallantry of La Valette , tells also the date when the chief city , that still commemorates the hero's name , was founded . On a narrow promontory of barren rock , washed on either side by the waters ...
... Maltese history , that records the gallantry of La Valette , tells also the date when the chief city , that still commemorates the hero's name , was founded . On a narrow promontory of barren rock , washed on either side by the waters ...
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... Maltese government offended those sons of freedom ; and the national assembly decreed that " every Frenchman who was a member of that order , should no longer be regarded as a citizen of France : " and , still unsatisfied with this ...
... Maltese government offended those sons of freedom ; and the national assembly decreed that " every Frenchman who was a member of that order , should no longer be regarded as a citizen of France : " and , still unsatisfied with this ...
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The Shores and Islands of the Mediterranean, Partes 1-16 George Newenham Wright,Sir Grenville Temple Visualização integral - 1840 |
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admiration adorned Africa Algiers amongst ancient appears Arabs arches architecture Bagaria beautiful Beylik of Tunis breadth building Calabria called capital Carthage Carthaginians castle Catania cathedral celebrated Cephalonia Ceuta chapel character Christian church citadel climate coast columns Corfu Corinthian order decorated emperor enclosed erected Europa Point exquisite feet fleet formed fortress French garrison Gibraltar Gulf harbour hills honour hundred inhabitants Ionian island Isles Ithaca JEMM king knights land Leitch length lofty luxuriant Malta Maltese marble Marina Mediterranean Messina miles Monte Moorish mountain Naples noble Norman object occupied ornaments palace Palermitan Palermo picturesque pillars plain port possession prince reign remains rich rock Roman Rome Rosalia ruins saint SANTA ROSALIA Saracenic Scylla shores Sicilian Sicily side siege Sir Grenville spacious Spaniards splendid stone Strada Straits streets style surface Taormina temple theatre thousand tower town Tunis Tuniseen Valetta Villa visited walls wind Zaghwan Ziza
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Página 99 - Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
Página 60 - Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Página 72 - Sublime tobacco ! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest ; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides ; Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand ; Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe ; Like other charmers, wooing the caress More dazzlingly when daring in full dress ; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far...
Página 26 - " sequitur fortunam, ut semper, et odit damnatos. idem populus, si Nurtia Tusco favisset, si oppressa foret secura senectus 75 principis, hac ipsa Seianum diceret hora Augustum. iam pridem, ex quo suffragia nulli vendimus, effudit curas ; nam qui dabat olim imperium fasces legiones omnia, nunc se continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, 80 panem et circenses."
Página 60 - And, as the Cretan labyrinth of old, With wandering ways, and many a winding fold, Involved the weary feet, without redress, In a round error, which denied recess ; So fought the Trojan boys in warlike play, Turn'd and return'd, and still a different way.
Página 48 - The Tyrians, landing near this holy ground, And digging here, a prosperous omen found : From under earth a courser's head they drew, Their growth and future fortune to foreshow. This fated sign their foundress Juno gave Of a soil fruitful and a people brave.