... even in the midst of winter. To it belongeth more than 3000 churches and monasteries, and these the best built and adorned of any in Italy. They greatly affect the Spanish gravity in their habit ; delight in good horses ; the streets are full of gallants... The Diary of John Evelyn: 1620-1646 - Página 241de John Evelyn - 1906Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Evelyn - 1850 - 512 páginas
...rice, sulphur, and alum ; for with all these riches is this delicious country blest. The manna rails at certain seasons on the adjoining hills in form...from hence brought first into England by Sir Sanders Duncomb. The women are generally well-featured, but excessively libidinous. The country-people so jovial... | |
| John Evelyn - 1862 - 526 páginas
...churches and monasteries, and these the best built and adorned of any in Italy. They greatly afl'ect the Spanish gravity in their habit ; delight in good...from hence brought first into England by Sir Sanders Duncomb. The women are generally well-featured, but excessively libidinous. The country people so jovial... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 páginas
...Naples on the 8th February 1645, describes the gay appearance of the city and its inhabitants, adding, ' The streets are full of gallants on horseback, in coaches and sedans,' which last articles, he tells us, were ' from hence brought first into England by Sir Sanders Duncomb.'... | |
| John Evelyn - 1870 - 788 páginas
...Italy. They greately affect the Spanish gravity in their habite ; delight in good horses ; the streetes are full of gallants on horseback, in coaches' and...from hence brought first into England by Sir Sanders Duncomb. The women are generaly well featur'd but excessively libidinous. The country-people so jovial... | |
| Thomas Allan Croal - 1877 - 642 páginas
...other hand, ascribes their introduction to an English physician. Writing from Naples, he says : — " They greatly affect the Spanish gravity in their habit,...from hence brought first into England by Sir Sanders Duncombe." This gentleman, as we learn from another entry in the diary, was possessor of a " celebrated... | |
| John Evelyn - 1878 - 540 páginas
...Justice, Great Chamberlain, and Chancellor, with a Secretary ; these being prodigiously avaricious,do wonderfully enrich themselves out of the miserable...from hence brought first into England by Sir Sanders Duncomb. The women are generally well-featured, but excessively libidinous. The country people so jovial... | |
| John Evelyn - 1889 - 538 páginas
...them very sweet and clean, even in the midst of winter. To it belongeth more than 3000 churches aud monasteries, and these the best built and adorned...from hence brought first into England by Sir Sanders Duncomb. The women are generally well-featured, but excessively libidinous. The country people so jovial... | |
| John Ruskin - 1894 - 476 páginas
...the most magnificent in Europe. To it belongeth three thousand churches and monasteries, and those best built and adorned of any in Italy. They greatly...horses, the streets are full of gallants on horseback, and in coaches and sedans, from hence first brought into England by Sir Sanders Duucomb ; the country... | |
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