A Sketch of a Tour on the Continent: In the Years 1786 and 1787, Volume 3author, 1793 - Europe |
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Page 31 - The materials of his types arc antimony and lead, as in other places ; but he shewed us some of steel. He has sets of all the known alphabets, with diphthongs, accents, and other peculiarities, in the greatest perfection. His Greek types are peculiarly beautiful, though of a different kind of« beauty from those of old Stephens, and perhaps less free and flowing in their forms. His paper is all made at Parma. The manner in which Mr. Bodoni gives his works their beautiful smoothness, so that no impression...
Page 179 - With the mild magic of reflected light. The beauteous maid, that bids the world adieu, Oft of that world will snatch a fond review ; Oft at the shrine neglect her beads, to trace Some social scene, some dear familiar face, Forgot, when first a father's stern...
Page 179 - Bursts through the cypress-walk, the convent-cell, Oft will her warm and wayward heart revive, To love and joy still tremblingly alive ; The whisper'd vow, the chaste caress prolong, Weave the light dance, and swell the choral song; With rapt ear drink the enchanting serenade, And, as it melts along the moonlight-glade, To each soft note return as soft a sigh, And bless the youth that bids her slumbers fly.
Page 31 - He has sets of all the known alphabets, with diphthongs, accents, and other peculiarities, ties, in the greatest perfection. His Greek types are peculiarly beautiful, though of a* different kind of Beauty from those of old Stephens, and perhaps less free and flowing in their...
Page 30 - Nothing could exceed his civility in showing us numbers of the beautiful productions of his press, of which he gave us some specimens, as well as the operations of casting and finishing the letters. He was extremely anxious to procure a certain kind of very...
Page 197 - ... conduct, her plots, as they are called, her treason against her oppressors, none that can put themselves into her situation will wonder at or blame. Her private faults I will not palliate. They were but too well known, when she was in a situation that might be supposed out of the reach of all justice, except the divine ; but they will not fail now to be blackened, no doubt, where that can be done. Let it, however, be remembered, that the state prisons revealed no secrets to the...
Page 89 - ... cloth for decency, and a pair of flippers ; but they actually knead the dough with their naked feet. Every part of the procefs is in harmony with this elegant praftice.
Page 260 - ... has oaks two feet in diameter, by reafon of a bottom of white adhefive earth like marl. Pafs three rivers, the waters of which might be applied in irrigation, yet no ufe made of them. The duke de Bouillon has vaft pofTeflions in thefe lands. A Grand Seigneur will at any time, and in any country, explain the reafon of improveable land being left wafte.
Page 89 - Jtlorte bread can lawfully be made for fale ; yet much is made and fold in a contraband way in various parts of the town, as well as a great deal in private families for their own Uie.
Page 4 - Afclepias fruticefa, with another kind of cloth made of the down of its feeds, carded and fpun, which his fons ufed to wear for clothing, and which he aflured us was very ftrong. It looks and feels like tolerably fine woollen cloth. I obferved, with furprife, that it was moth-eaten, which Mr. Arduino attribured to its being d relied with oil.