A Tour Through Italy

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: merable wander through their recesses, and enliven the silence of the scene by perpetual lowings. As the country still continues flat and covered with thickets, the traveller scarce discovers Pastitm till he enters its walls. We drove to the bishop's palace, not through crowded streets and pompous squares,...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: merable wander through their recesses, and enliven the silence of the scene by perpetual lowings. As the country still continues flat and covered with thickets, the traveller scarce discovers Pastitm till he enters its walls. We drove to the bishop's palace, not through crowded streets and pompous squares, but over a smooth turf, in the midst of bushes and brambles, with a solitary tree waving here and there over the waste. The unusual forms of three temples rising insulated and unfrequented, in the middle of such a wilderness, immediately engrossed our attention. We alighted, and hastened to the majestic piles; then wandered about them till the fall of night obliged us to repair to our mansion. The good bishop had been so obliging as to send one of his chaplains to meet us, and provide every thing requisite for our comfortable accommodation, a commission which that gentleman performed with great punctuality and politeness. The resemblance may be carried still farther, as the same insect, if we may credit the observation of a most accurate and indefatigable traveller, Cluverius, confirmed by the authority of some Italian authors, still continues to infest the same forest, and to terrify and disperse the cattle over the whole mountain and bordering plains. I cannot vouch for the fact upon my own observation or inquiries. The circumstance is trivial in itself, but it is classical because connected with the scenery of the following beautiful lines, that is, the scenery which now surrounds us. / Est lucos Silari circa ilicibusque virentem Plurimus Alburnum volitans, cui nomen Asilo Romanum est, jstriuu Graii vertere vocantes; Asper acerba sonans; quo tota exterrita sylvis Diffugiunt armenta; furit mugitibus aether, Concussus, sylvaeque et sicci ripa Tanagri. Georg...