Observations on a Journey Through Spain and Italy to Naples: And Thence to Smyrna and Constantinople; Comprising a Description of the Principal Places in that Route, and Remarks on the Present Natural and Political State of Those Countries, 第 2 卷C. and R. Baldwin, 1807 |
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第 161 頁 - Nor was his name unheard or unadored In ancient Greece ; and in Ausonian land Men called him Mulciber ; and how he fell From Heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlem'ents ; from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day...
第 207 頁 - That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above a musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head.
第 222 頁 - King," is very popular with the Greeks at Smyrna ; but the second is either beyond their abilities, or not suited to their taste. It is said, indeed, that they seldom retain the second part of any European tune.
第 101 頁 - ... secret awe seems to drive them to the altar, where they kneel and receive the sacrament from the very hand which they have ridiculed. No people that I have ever [yet seen descends so low in order to excite compassion. If they gain their object by any means they are satisfied, and in order to affect this, fawn upon strangers in a manner that quickly becomes tedious and soon disgusting.
第 219 頁 - ... with the Spaniard or Italian, but without the same real warmth of devotion to excuse it. There is no doubt but that the glories of his ancestors serve, by the contrast, to render his vices more prominent. Had we not been early taught to admire Grecian courage, wisdom and talents, we might look upon the meanness of the present race with less emotion. But who can think without regret, that the descendants of the conquerors of Marathon are cowards and slaves ; that for so many centuries not a single...
第 102 頁 - The mildness of their climate inspires them with cheerfulness, and they give themselves up with ardour to every pleasure, even the most trifling ; yet their looks are composed and even grave, and their walk has nothing in it which indicates levity. In the...
第 221 頁 - Greeks still retain much of what we may suppose to have been their former physical character. Few amongst them are deformed or ugly ; but, on the contrary, those from the Morea and the western islands of the Archipelago are in general remarkably stout, with broad shoulders and thick necks ; whilst those of the other islands, and from Constantinople, Smyrna, and the coasts of Asia, supply by the elegance what is deficient in the strength of their make. Their physiognomies are expressive, but still...
第 103 頁 - Such palTigos were uniformly received with/unmanly laughter and applaufe, as if it was a great triumph obtained over their female friends. The ladies in both countries join in the laugh ; but they know how to take their revenge.
第 216 頁 - ... exactly, not merely what is vice and what is virtue, but also the daily and hourly duties of the man and the citizen, may form a peculiar and separate people, a nation of Jews or of Turks, but once formed, that nation remains for ever incapable of improvement. Such is the defect of the Koran. Its simple precepts, its strict prohibitions, were well calculated to bind together the wandering tribes of the Desert, but become too minute in some instances, and too desultory . in others, when considered...
第 206 頁 - Were I Sultan of Smyrna, I would cause a capacious basin to be hollowed out round Diana's pool, which would soon be converted into a small but beautiful lake, the borders of which I would plant thickly with trees, the tall cypress, the spreading oak 115 As a great commercial centre and the port second in importance to Istanbul, the city attracted the attention of economic travellers.