 | Thomas Dick - 1838 - 444 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... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1838 - 270 pages
...sea and land intervening; the islands of Lipari, Panari, Alicudi, Strombolo, and Volcano, with '.heir smoking summits, appear under your feet; and you look...mouth. The view is absolutely boundless on every side; nor is there any one object within the'clrcle of vision to interrupt it, so that the sight is every... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 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... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 pages
...immense tracts both of sea and land intervening ; the islands of Lipari, Panari, Alicudi, Strombolo, and Volcano, with their smoking summits, appear under...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,... | |
 | Francis Fauvel-Gouraud - 1845 - 676 pages
...Volcano, with their smoking summits, beneath the beholder, who looks down on the whole of Sicily as upon a map. and can trace every river, through all its...every side, so that the sight is every where lost in immensity." " Yet, this expansive prospect, so magnificent, is comprised within a circle about 240... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 838 pages
...Strombolo, and Volcano, with their smoking summits, appear under your feet; and you look down on thewhole of Sicily as on a map ; and can trace every river...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... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...look down on the whole of Si'cily as on a ma'p ; and can tr'ace every riVer, through all its wi'nding, from its so'urce/ to its mo'uth. The view is absolutely boun'dless on e'very-side ; nor/ is there any one ob'ject/ within the circle of vision, to interru'pt it ; so that... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1846 - 312 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... | |
 | 1847 - 568 pages
...rising from the ocean, immense tracts both of sea and land mtervening. The islands of Lipari, 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 everywhere... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1849 - 446 pages
...ocean, immense " tracts both of sea and land intervening; the islands of " Lipari, Panari, Alicudi, Stromboli, and Volcano, with " their smoking summits,...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... | |
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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... 
