Brydone, Patrick; Beckford, William: A Tour Through Sicily And Malta: in a series of letters to William Beckford ; in 2 vol. (Band 1) (1775)

ij4 A TOUR THROUGH
body else, and so on. Poets have ever been
the greatest of all thieves ; and happy it is
that poetical theft is no felony ; otherwise,
I am afraid, Parnassus would have been but
thinly peopled.
Farewell; to-morrow I shall endeavour to
bring you up with us ; for at present you
will please to observe, that you have got no
farther than the city of Jaci; and have still
many extinguished volcanos to pass before
• your arrival here.
Ever yours, &c*