 Strombolo, and Volcano, with their smoking summits, appear under your feet; and you look down on the whole of Sicily as on a map; and can trace every river through all its windings, from its source to its mouth. The view is absolutely boundless on every...  Curiosities of Human Nature - Page 33by Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 410 pages
...immense tracts both of sea and land intervening; the islands of Lipari, Panari, Aliendi, Strombolo, and Volcano, with their smoking summits, appear under...mouth. The view is absolutely boundless on every side ; nor is there any one object within the circle of vision to interrupt it; so that the sight is every... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 404 pages
...immense tracts both of sea and land intervening; the islands of Lipari, Panari, Aliendi, Strombolo, and Volcano, with their smoking summits, appear under...mouth. The view is absolutely boundless on every side; nor is there any one object within the circle of vision to interrupt it; so that the sight is every... | |
 | 1828 - 398 pages
...-immense tracts both of sea and land intervening ; the islands of Lepari, Panari, Alicudi, Strombols, and Volcano, with their smoking summits, appear under...mouth. The view is absolutely boundless on every side; nor is there any one object within the circle of vision to interrupt it ; so that the sight is every... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...immense tracts both of sea and land intervening ; the islands of Lipari, Panari, Alicudi, Strombolo, and Volcano, with their smoking summits, appear under...mouth. The view is absolutely boundless on every side ; nor is there any one object, within the circle of vision, to interrupt it ; so that the sight is... | |
 | Katherine Augusta Ware - 1828 - 848 pages
...land intervening: various islands appear under your feet; and you look down on the whole of Sirily as on a map, and can trace every river through all...mouth. The view is absolutely boundless on every side: uor is there any one object within the circle of vision to interrupt it; so that the sight is every... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 782 pages
...the ocean, immense tracts both of sea and land intervening ; the inlands of Lipari, Panari, Alicudi, Stromboli, and Volcano, with their smoking summits,...mouth. The view is absolutely boundless on every side ; nor is there any one object within the circle of vision to interrupt it, so that the sight is every... | |
 | James Bell - Geography - 1832 - 622 pages
...your feet; and you look down on the whole of Sicily as on a map; and cari trace every river tbrough all its windings from its source to its mouth. The view is absolutely boundless on every side; nor is there any one object within the circle of vision to interrapt it, so that the sight is every... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Readers - 1833 - 288 pages
...immense tracts both of sea and land intervening; the islands of Lipari, Panari, Alicudi, Strombolo, and Volcano, with their smoking summits, appear under...mouth. The view is absolutely boundless on every side; nor is there any one object within the circle of vision to interrupt it, so that the sight is every... | |
 | George William David Evans - Art, Italian - 1835 - 400 pages
...smoking summits, appear under your feet; and you look down on the whole of Sicily as on a map, and may trace every river, through all its windings, from its source to its mouth. ... All these, by a kind of magic in vision, seem as if brought round the skirts of JEtnsi; the distances... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Astronomy - 1838 - 426 pages
...with the amplitude of the sun. " There is no point on the surface of the globe," says Mr. Brydone, " that unites so many awful and sublime objects as the...absolutely boundless on every side, so that the sight is everywhere lost in the immensity." Yet this glorious and expansive prospect is comprised within a circle... | |
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