Hester Lynch Piozzi

[1] Lord, Madam! why we came here on purpose sure to see the end of the world.

[2]

Freed from his keepers thus with broken reins

The wanton courser prances o’er the plains.

Dryden.

[3] When the mountain was in ill-humour.

[4] More laborious than gathering up the Sibyl’s leaves.

[5] I have danced in my bed so often this year.

[6] Is she yet alive? Is she yet alive?

[7] Be it as it may.

[8] Which was once Anxur, and now is Terracina.

[9] The temple sacred to the maiden Juno and un-razored Jove.

[10]

And the steep hills of Circe stretch around,

Where fair Feronia boasts her stately grove,

And Anxur glories in her guardian Jove.

Pitt.

[11] White Anxur’s salutary waters roll.

[12] Why, Madam, you have hit on it sure enough.

[13] Surge, et ego ipse homo sum. Vulgate.

[14] This hiding-hole received Nero after his golden house.

[15]

Our Alexander sells keys, altars, heaven;

When law and right are sold, he’ll buy:—that’s even.

[16] Juno too has her thunder.

[17] Here’s something at last that’s truly great however! why this Alexander looks fit to be king of France.

[18] Paglia is a straw-coloured marble, wonderfully beautiful, and extremely rare; found only in some northern tracts of Africa, I am told here.

[19] What you are already, that desire to be for ever.

[20] Girt with the limus, and as to their temples, they were crowned with vervain.

[21] That’s the name of the spring.

[22] There was an old religious temple hard by, where Clitumnus himself was venerated with suitable dress and ornaments.

[23] Nightly lamenting, &c.

[24] The colony of Ancona, founded by Sicilians.

[25]

The beauteous gulph which fair Ancona laves,

Ancona wash’d by white Dalmatian waves.

[26] I am a light-fingered fellow, Master.

[27] We are all sinners you know.

[28] The best among the CÆsars.

[29] Mayst thou be happier than Augustus!—better than Trajan!

[30] Eating increases one’s appetite.

[31]

Though fat Bologna feeds to the fill,

Our Padua is fatter still.

[32]

Pompous and holy ancient Rome we call,

Venice rich, wise, and lordly over all.

[33] Truth alone is pleasing.

[34]

Wilt thou have music? hark, Apollo plays,

And twenty caged nightingales shall sing.

Shakespeare.

[35]

Not Hybla’s sweets, nor Naples devoloons,

Nor grapes which hide the hill with rich festoons;

Nor fat Bologna’s valley, have I chose;

What is your wish then? May I speak?—repose.

[36] Thy knowledge is nothing till other men know that thou knowest it.

[37] Methinks there seems to be much slavery required from those who inhabit your fine free country of England.

[38] In the fine cieling of Palazzo Ludovigi at Rome, the Hours which surround Aurora’s chariot are employed in extinguishing the Stars with their hands.

[39] One volume of this Leonardiana is now in the private library of the king of England at the queen’s house in the park, preserved from Charles or James the First’s collection, and written with the left hand, or rather backwards, to be read only with the help of a mirror.

[40] All so natural and pretty,—quite in the English style.

[41] That is, with a heap of friends about one in this manner.

[42] Oh! God keep one from that.

[43] What prince makes his residence here?

[44]

Her studies, manners, arts, to all proclaim

Fair Clelia’s glory, and her sex’s shame.

[45]

Two lords in vain unlucky Dido tries;

One dead, she flies the land; one fled—she dies.

[46] Faithful to his cares, and companionable in his studies.

[47] Whoever sees thee without being smitten with extraordinary passion, must, I think, be incapable of loving even himself.

[48] Nothing too much.

[49] The lazy ox for trappings sighs.

[50] Ever stormy or venemous.

[51] Here’s the place to see fine diamonds.

[52]

What are they after all their pains,

These thunderbolts of war?

Mere caput mortuum that remains

Which worms vouchsafe to spare.

[53]

All these have liv’d; ye too who read must die:

Haste and be wise, the fateful minutes fly.

[54] Antwerp is a noble town of Brabant, situated on the banks of the Scheld; frequented by most of the nations in Europe, and sumptuous in its buildings both public and private.

[55] One—and he a bold one.

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