The Humanist as Traveler: George Sandy's Relation of a Journey Begun An. Dom. 1610, Volumul 10Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1986 - 159 pagini The first full-length study of George Sandy's Relation, one of the most interesting and important travel books of the English Renaissance. |
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Pagina 17 - ... remain waste and overgrown with bushes, receptacles of wild beasts, of thieves and murderers ; large territories dispeopled, or thinly inhabited ; goodly cities made desolate ; sumptuous buildings become ruins, glorious temples either subverted or prostituted to impiety...
Pagina 142 - Farewell, monsieur traveller: Look, you lisp, and wear strange suits; disable- all the benefits of your own country; be out of love with your nativity, and almost chide God for making you that countenance you are; b or I will scarce think you have swam in a * gondola.
Pagina 152 - A PISGAH SIGHT OF PALESTINE, AND THE CONFINES THEREOF; WITH THE HISTORY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT ACTED THEREON.
Pagina 45 - Antipodes her silent flight; To those dark seas where horrid winter reigns, And binds the stubborn floods in icy chains; To Libyan wastes, whose thirst no showers assuage, And where swoln Nilus cools the lion's rage.
Pagina 17 - ... theirs, so great and deserved, are to the rest of the world as threatening instructions. For assistance wherein, I have not only related what I saw of their present condition ; but, so far as convenience might permit, presented a brief view of...
Pagina 17 - God descended to become man ; where he honored the earth with his beautiful steps, wrought the works of our redemption, triumphed over death, and ascended into glory ; which countries, once so glorious and famous for their happy estate, are now, through vice and ingratitude, become the most deplored spectacles of extreme...
Pagina 14 - And, worthy George, by industry and use, Let's see what lines Virginia will produce. Go on with Ovid, as you have begun With the first five books ; let your numbers run Glib as the former ; so shall it live long And do much honor to the English tongue.
Pagina 78 - The Turkes are also incredible takers of Opium, whereof the lesser Asia affordeth them plenty : carrying it about them both in peace and in warre ; which they say expelleth all feare, and makes them couragious : but I rather thinke giddy headed, and turbulent dreamers ; by them, as should seeme by what hath bene said, religiously affected. And perhaps for the selfe same cause they also delight in Tobacco; they take it through reeds that...