Narrative of an Excursion from Corfu to Smyrna: Comprising a Progress Through Albania and the North of Greece : with Some Account of Athens, Descriptive of the Ancient and Present State of that City : to which is Annexed, a Translation of Erastae, of PlatoBlack, Young, and Young, 1827 - 271 páginas |
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... Death of a young French Officer -Awkward arrangement of Horse - furniture The Tartar bit described , -p . 53 . LETTER VIII . - Detention at Ioannina - Visit from Seid Achmet- Transmission of Buryoldis , or Buju - ruldas , ( Vizier's or ...
... Death of a young French Officer -Awkward arrangement of Horse - furniture The Tartar bit described , -p . 53 . LETTER VIII . - Detention at Ioannina - Visit from Seid Achmet- Transmission of Buryoldis , or Buju - ruldas , ( Vizier's or ...
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... Death of Ali Pasha , —p . 125 . LETTER XVI . Thebes - Morose disposition of the inhabitants - Mo- dern town and environs described - Ismenus - Fountain of Dirce - Its mythological Origin , p . 133 . LETTER XVII . Journey to АTHENS - The ...
... Death of Ali Pasha , —p . 125 . LETTER XVI . Thebes - Morose disposition of the inhabitants - Mo- dern town and environs described - Ismenus - Fountain of Dirce - Its mythological Origin , p . 133 . LETTER XVII . Journey to АTHENS - The ...
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... death- blow to their hopes at Pharsalia - and here were solemnized those ill - fated nuptials between Antony duodecim millia passuum : eadem ab Acrocerauniis quinqua- ginta mill : cum urbe ejusdem nominis , Corcyra , liberæ ci- vitatis ...
... death- blow to their hopes at Pharsalia - and here were solemnized those ill - fated nuptials between Antony duodecim millia passuum : eadem ab Acrocerauniis quinqua- ginta mill : cum urbe ejusdem nominis , Corcyra , liberæ ci- vitatis ...
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... death ; —its daily study and practice being to wean and separate the body from the soul , whose pursuit of truth is perpetually stopped and impeded by the numerous avocations , the little pleasures , pains , and neces- sities of its ...
... death ; —its daily study and practice being to wean and separate the body from the soul , whose pursuit of truth is perpetually stopped and impeded by the numerous avocations , the little pleasures , pains , and neces- sities of its ...
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... death ; whence he would infer the probability of a metempsychosis . That such propositions , as every one assents to at first , being self - evident , and no one giving any account how such parts of knowledge on which the rest are ...
... death ; whence he would infer the probability of a metempsychosis . That such propositions , as every one assents to at first , being self - evident , and no one giving any account how such parts of knowledge on which the rest are ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 87 - Not where he eats, but where he is eaten : a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots...
Página 151 - And — but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not now, And but for that chill changeless brow, Where cold Obstruction's apathy Appals the gazing mourner's heart...
Página 151 - Appals the gazing mourner's heart, As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon; Yes, but for these and these alone, Some moments, aye, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the Tyrant's power; So fair, so calm, so softly sealed, The first, last look by Death revealed!
Página 151 - Such is the aspect of this shore; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb; Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away!
Página 15 - The Tomb of Alexander, a dissertation on the Sarcophagus, brought from Alexandria, and now in the British Museum,
Página 151 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there...
Página 150 - But the whole territory of Attica, from the promontory of Sunium to the town of Megara, was blasted by his baleful presence ; and, if we may use the comparison of a contemporary philosopher, Athens itself resembled the bleeding and empty skin of a slaughtered victim.
Página 7 - If from the skies a goddess, or if earth (Imperial virgin) boast thy glorious birth, To thee I bend ! if in that bright disguise Thou visit earth, a daughter of the skies, Hail, Dian, hail ! the huntress of the groves So shines majestic, and so stately moves...
Página 51 - The Arnaouts, or Albanese, struck me forcibly by their resemblance to the Highlanders of Scotland, in dress, figure, and manner of living. Their very mountains seemed Caledonian, with a kinder climate. The kilt, though white; the spare, active form ; their dialect, Celtic in its sound, and their hardy habits, all carried me back to Morven.
Página 251 - L'étoile du soir, ma compagne assidue pendant mon voyage, étoit prête à disparoître sous l'horizon; on ne l'apercevoit plus que par de longs rayons qu'elle laissoit de temps en temps descendre sur les flots, comme une lumière qui s'éteint. Par intervalles, des brises passagères...