 I hardly remember to have seen the same piece twice exposed ; to this add the perfumes, apothecaries' shops, and the innumerable cages of nightingales which they keep, that entertain you with their melody from shop to shop, so that shutting your eyes...  Italy - Page 167by Josiah Conder - 1831Full view - About this book
 | Edward Smedley - Venice - 1832 - 336 pages
...from shop to shop, so that shutting your eyes you would imagine yourselfe in the country, when indeede you are in the middle of the sea. It is almost as...neither rattling of coaches nor trampling of horses. This streete, paved with brick, and exceedingly cleane, brought us through an arch, into the famous... | |
 | Child rearing - 1832 - 338 pages
...from shop to shop, so that shutting your eyes you would imagine yourselfe in the country, when indeede you are in the middle of the sea. It is almost as...neither rattling of coaches nor trampling of horses. This streete, paved with brick, and exceedingly cleane, brought us through an arch, into the famous... | |
 | John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1850 - 512 pages
...innumerable cages of nightingales which they keep, that entertain you with their melody from shop to shop, so that shutting your eyes you would imagine yourself...neither rattling of coaches nor trampling of horses. This street, paved with brick, and exceedingly clean, brought us through an arch into the famous piazza... | |
 | American essays - 1889 - 876 pages
...and innumerable cages of nightingales " that entertain you with their melody from shop to shop, so that, shutting your eyes, you would imagine yourself...country, when indeed you are in the middle of the sea." Among the singular characters whom he met at Rome was Hippolito Vitellesco (afterwards bibliothecary... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1859 - 856 pages
...nightingales which they keep, that entertain you with their melody from shop to shop, so that, closing your eyes, you would imagine yourself in the country, when indeed you are in the midst of the sea." Evelyn arrived just at the carnival, and notes the ridiculous dress of the Venetian... | |
 | John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1870 - 788 pages
...from shop to shop, so that shutting your eyes you would imagine yourseife in the country, when indeede you are in the middle of the Sea. It is almost as silent as the middle of a fieid, there being neither rattling of coaches nor trampling of horses. This streete, pav'd with brick... | |
 | John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1878 - 540 pages
...innumerable cages of nightingales which they keep, that entertain you with their melody from shop to shop, so that shutting your eyes, you would imagine yourself...neither rattling of coaches nor trampling of horses. This street, paved with brick, and exceedingly clean, brought us through an arch into the famous piazza... | |
 | John Evelyn - Autobiography - 1879 - 652 pages
...from shop to shop, so that shutting your eyes you would imagine yourselfe in the country, when indeede you are in the middle of the Sea. It is almost as...neither rattling of coaches nor trampling of horses. This streete, pav'd with brick and exceedingly cleane, brought us thro' an arch into the famous Piazza... | |
 | John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1889 - 538 pages
...innumerable cages of nightingales which they keep, that entertain you with their melody from shop to shop, so that shutting your eyes, you would imagine yourself...neither rattling of coaches nor trampling of horses. This street, paved with brick, and exceedingly clean, brought us through an arch into the famous piazza... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1896 - 1000 pages
...keep, that entertain you with their melody from shop to shop, so that shutting your eyes you could imagine yourself in the country, when indeed you are in the middle of the sea." Evelyn left Venice at the end of March, 1646. Addison's remarks upon Italy are entertaining but of... | |
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