The Shores and Islands of the Mediterranean, Volume 1 |
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... Thy shores are empires , changed in all save thee , Assyria , Greece , Rome , Carthage , where are they ? " The Mediterranean , Mare Internum of the ancients , extends about two thousand three hundred miles in length , that is , from ...
... Thy shores are empires , changed in all save thee , Assyria , Greece , Rome , Carthage , where are they ? " The Mediterranean , Mare Internum of the ancients , extends about two thousand three hundred miles in length , that is , from ...
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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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Page 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.
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Page 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...
Page 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."
Page 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.
Page 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.