Remarks on Several Parts of Italy Author:Joseph Addison General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1753 Original Publisher: J. and R. Tonson Subjects: Italy History / Europe / Western History / Europe / Italy Travel / Europe / Italy Travel / Europe / Switzerland Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be ... more »typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: F E R RAlEN R I M I N I. T Venice I took a Bark for Ferrara, and in mv way thither faw feveral Mouths of the Pa, by which it empties itfelf into the Adriatic, ..... i ,. ...... £uo non alias per pinguia cutia In mare purpureum viclentior infuit amnis. Virg. Georg. iv. v. 372. which is true, if underftood only of the Rivers of hah. Lucan's Defcrlption of the Po would have been very beautiful, had he known when to have given over. magis nullum tellus fe felvit in amnem Eridanus, fraftafque evolvit in aquera fyfoas, Hefperiamqne exhaurit aquis: hunc fabula primum Popule a fluvium ripas umbraffe corona: Cumque diem pronum tranfverfe litnite ducens Suctendit Phaetonflagrantibus tethera loris ; Gurgitiku Ferrara, Ravenna, Rimini. 73 'Gurgitflius raptis, penitAs tellWe perufla, Hunc babuiffe pares Phoebels ignibus uridas. ' Lib. ii. vr. 40S1. ' .; ' i' i " ' v ir. . : . ' i , - , ,; e B The P, that, rufhing with uncommon Force, O'er-fets whole Woods in its tumultuous Courfe, And, rifingfrom Hefperia's watry Veins, Th' exhaufted Land of all its Moifture drains. , The Pa, as fings the Fable, firft convey'd Its wand'ring Current through a Poplar Shade: ', For when young Phaeton miftook his way, Loft and confounded in the Blaze of Day, ' This River, with furviving Streams fupply'd, When all the reft of the whole Earth were1 dry'd, And Nature's felf lay ready to expire, Quench'd the dire Flame that fet the World on Fire. The...« less