 | Mariana Starke - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 926
...walnut, the wide-spreading oak, and magnificent maritime stone- pine, are so beautifully mingled and contrasted with multitudes of oranges and lemons,...Spot might fancy it the Garden of the Hesperides. z The Plain rises gradually to the height of a thousand feet above the level of the sea ; and is bounded... | |
 | Edmund Spencer - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...whose frowning towers seem to shut out hope to the captive, for the hill on which it is built rises to the height of a thousand feet above the level of the sea, — renders the town at once picturesque and imposing. Spielberg ! how ominous is that name to... | |
 | Edmund Spencer (capt.) - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 400
...whose frowning towers seem to shut out hope to the captive, for the hill on which it is built rises to the height of a thousand feet above the level of the sea, — renders the town at once picturesque and imposing. Spielberg ! how ominous is that name to... | |
 | E.F. Beadle (and co.) - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 536
...air, of uniform breadth, and in no place over three feet in depth. The mountains rose on either side to the height of a thousand feet above the level of the stream. He camped at night on the bank of this river, aud at an early hour resumed his journey. Nat... | |
 | Francis Coghlan - 1863 - عدد الصفحات: 1208
...the walnut, the wide-speading oak, and magnificent maritime stonepine, are so beautifully mingled and contrasted with multitudes of oranges and lemons,...down upon this spot, might fancy it the garden of the Hesperidcs. The plain rises gradually to the height of a thousand feet above the level of the sea,... | |
 | Silvio Salvatore Gargiulo - 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 118
...chestnut, the walInut, the wide spreading oak, the magnificent stone pine are so beautifully mingled and contrasted with multitudes of oranges and lemons that...spot might fancy it the garden of the Hesperides. There is no spot in Southern Italy or Magna Grecia so temperately warm during summer so well screened... | |
 | William Bulfin - 1912 - عدد الصفحات: 556
...few hills, some of them heather-crested, and some of them crowned with rock, but none of them rise to the height of a thousand feet above the level of the sea. The land is fairly well divided between pasturage and tillage, although there might be more agriculture.... | |
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... has a most city-like appearance ; and commanded as it is by the lofty cathedral dedicated to St. Peter, situate on the summit of the Petersburg, — together with the bastile of Austria, the Spielberg, whose frowning towers seem to shut out hope to... 