Handbook for Travellers in Northern Italy: Part I.: comprimising the continental states and islands of sardinia, Lombardy, and Venice. Part II.: the duchhies of Parma, Piacenza, and Modena, north Tuscany and Florence, Partie 2J. Murray, 1858 |
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Page 31 - ROWLANDS' ODONTO, or PEARL DENTIFRICE, A "white Powder compounded of the rarest and most fragrant exotics. It bestows on the teeth a pearl-like Whiteness, frees them from Tartar, and imparts to the Gums a healthy firmness, and to the breath a delicate fragrance.
Page 618 - Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 596 - Chimaera's conquest was enjoin'd, A mingled monster of no mortal kind; Behind, a dragon's fiery tail was spread; A goat's rough body bore a lion's head; Her pitchy nostrils flaky flames expire; Her gaping throat emits infernal fire.
Page 31 - Price 4s. 6d. and 8s. 6d. per bottle. The heat of Summer also frequently communicates a dryness to .the Hair, and a tendency to fall off, which may be completely obviated by the use of ROWLANDS...
Page 565 - Wherefore I prayed, and understanding was given me: I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came to me. I preferred her before sceptres and thrones, and esteemed riches nothing in comparison of her.
Page 622 - Mark ; the San Spirito, another great monument of the genius of Brunelleschi ; the numerous convents that rose within the walls of Florence, or were scattered immediately about them.
Page 30 - Joss, as well as to lessen delay in undergoing examination abroad. Residents in the country can have Passports obtained, completed, and forwarded by post. For further particulars, including the Forms of Application, Cost of Passport, Visa?, &c.
Page 28 - SECONDARY FOSSILS, from the Trias, Lias, Oolite, Wealden, and Cretaceous Groups. TERTIARY FOSSILS, from the Woolwich, Barton, and Bracklesham Beds, London Clay, Crag, &c. In the more expensive Collections some of the Specimens are rare, and all more select.
Page 509 - Poi ch' ebbe sospirando il capo scosso : A ciò non fu' io sol, disse, né certo Senza cagion sarei con gli altri mosso : Ma fu' io sol colà, dove sofferto Fu per ciascun di torre via Fiorenza, Colui, che la difesi a viso aperto.
Page 618 - Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great...