Change of Air; Or, The Diary of a Philosopher in Pursuit of Health and Recreation Illustrating the Beneficial Influence of Bodily Exercise, Change of Scene, Pure Air and Temporary Relaxation as Antidotes to the Wear and Tear of Education and AvocationHighley, 1831 - 300 páginas |
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... Campagna di Roma Malaria 116 117 Inquiry into the Nature of , 120 Effects of Malaria ..... Approach to Rome .. ROME . TOWER OF THE CAPITOL . 124 128 SOUTH VIEW ; or ROME in RUINS ,. 129 Mamertine Prisons .... .... 140 142 Temple of ...
... Campagna di Roma Malaria 116 117 Inquiry into the Nature of , 120 Effects of Malaria ..... Approach to Rome .. ROME . TOWER OF THE CAPITOL . 124 128 SOUTH VIEW ; or ROME in RUINS ,. 129 Mamertine Prisons .... .... 140 142 Temple of ...
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... a second nature . Tacitus tell us that , after the burning of Rome by Nero , that Emperor caused the new city to be ... Campagna di Roma in Autumn . AMPHITHEATRE . At LA SCALA , there was not much lost by the darkness of the house - the ...
... a second nature . Tacitus tell us that , after the burning of Rome by Nero , that Emperor caused the new city to be ... Campagna di Roma in Autumn . AMPHITHEATRE . At LA SCALA , there was not much lost by the darkness of the house - the ...
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... in Malabar , beriberi in Ceylon , Barbadoes leg in the Antilles , goitre among the Alps - the plica in Poland - cretinism in the Valais - or malaria in the Campagna di Roma ! It is an emanation from the soil ; but whether conveyed in ...
... in Malabar , beriberi in Ceylon , Barbadoes leg in the Antilles , goitre among the Alps - the plica in Poland - cretinism in the Valais - or malaria in the Campagna di Roma ! It is an emanation from the soil ; but whether conveyed in ...
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... Campagna di Roma , and the time when its crater became a level plain , the Tiber worked its classic channel , and Romulus took possession of its seven molehills ! How is it that no vestiges of man can be traced in any of these secondary ...
... Campagna di Roma , and the time when its crater became a level plain , the Tiber worked its classic channel , and Romulus took possession of its seven molehills ! How is it that no vestiges of man can be traced in any of these secondary ...
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... in his own time , were floating islands . Geology teaches us that the Campagna di Roma was once covered with water , some 50 or 60 feet above the present level of the Tiber at Rome . The seven hills were then seven islands . They were ...
... in his own time , were floating islands . Geology teaches us that the Campagna di Roma was once covered with water , some 50 or 60 feet above the present level of the Tiber at Rome . The seven hills were then seven islands . They were ...
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admiration Alps AMPHITHEATRE ancient animal Apennines arch ARCH OF TITUS atmosphere banks Baveno beautiful beneath body Bologna Cæsar Campagna Campagna di Roma Capitol carriage climate CLOACA MAXIMA CLOACINA contemplation countenance cretinism descended earth effects England English erected Eternal City Eustace excitement exhalations feelings fertile Florence France gallery Genoa gloomy goitre head Heaven hills holy human imagination impressions influence inhabitants intellectual invalid Italian Italy journey labour Lady Morgan lake less Lombardy magnificent malaria marble Milan miles mind modern moral mountains murder Naples nature neighbouring night objects palaces pass pellagra philosopher plains pleasure poet poison Pompeii present Radicofani river road rocks Roman Rome ruins scarcely scene scenery seen shew side sight Simplon sirocco skies snow soil streets summit surface temple THERMÆ thing thousand Tiber tion torrent tower town tramontane traveller valley Venus villages walls whole winds wonder
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Página 12 - He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Página 12 - tis true, this god did shake : His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried ' Give me some drink, Titinius,
Página 21 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Página 254 - Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee ; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Página 2 - Twas his the vast and trackless Deep to rove : Alternate change of Climates has he known, And felt the fierce extremes of either zone, Where polar Skies congeal th...
Página 44 - No, never shall I lose the trace Of what I've felt in this bright place. And, should my spirit's hope grow weak, Should I, oh God, e'er doubt thy power, This mighty scene again I'll seek, At the same calm and glowing hour, And here, at the sublimest shrine That Nature ever rear'd to Thee, Rekindle all that hope divine, And feel my immortality ! EXTRACT II.
Página 94 - It fills the mind with new ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues longest in action without being tired.
Página 94 - Now, in travelling we multiply events, and innocently. We set out, as it were, on our adventures ; and many are those that occur to us, morning, noon, and night. The day we come to a place which we have long heard and read off — as in Italy we do continually — it is an era in our lives ; and from that moment the very name calls up a picture.
Página 94 - Would he who sat in a corner of his library, poring over books and maps, learn more or so much in the time, as he who, with his eyes and his heart open, is receiving impressions all day long from the things themselves...
Página 61 - Hector first of Troy. As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's round fragment flies, with fury borne, (Which from the stubborn stone a torrent rends) Precipitate the pond'rous...