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98 CLASSICAL TOUR CA.L
prayers of the afflicted Mother, he will never
cease to befriend the traveller, nor to discharge
the duties of hospitality. If French principles
should unfortunately pass from the courts and
the cities in the plains, to the recesses of these
mountains, the murderer may shortly aim his
rifle from behind the ruins of the cross, and the
nightly banditti lurk, in expectation of their
prey, under the roof of the forsaken chapel.
Bressinone, in German Brixen, presents
nothing very remarkable to the attention of the
traveller. Its cathedral is neither large nor
beautiful ; and its claim to antiquity is rather
dubious, as the name of Brixentes in ancient
authors, belongs not so much to the town, as to
the inhabitants of the surrounding country. I
need scarcely inform the reader, that the Brixia,
alluded to by Catullus, is now Brescia, a well
known and flourishing city in the plain below,
between the lake Benacus and Cremona.
rhyme, was justly admired by Johnson and by Lord Ros-
common for its pathos and sublimity.—The lines were,
Recordare, Jesu pie I
Quod sum causa turn vise-
Quaerens me sedisti lassus,
Redemisti crucem passus ;
Tantus labor non sit cassus»
prayers of the afflicted Mother, he will never
cease to befriend the traveller, nor to discharge
the duties of hospitality. If French principles
should unfortunately pass from the courts and
the cities in the plains, to the recesses of these
mountains, the murderer may shortly aim his
rifle from behind the ruins of the cross, and the
nightly banditti lurk, in expectation of their
prey, under the roof of the forsaken chapel.
Bressinone, in German Brixen, presents
nothing very remarkable to the attention of the
traveller. Its cathedral is neither large nor
beautiful ; and its claim to antiquity is rather
dubious, as the name of Brixentes in ancient
authors, belongs not so much to the town, as to
the inhabitants of the surrounding country. I
need scarcely inform the reader, that the Brixia,
alluded to by Catullus, is now Brescia, a well
known and flourishing city in the plain below,
between the lake Benacus and Cremona.
rhyme, was justly admired by Johnson and by Lord Ros-
common for its pathos and sublimity.—The lines were,
Recordare, Jesu pie I
Quod sum causa turn vise-
Quaerens me sedisti lassus,
Redemisti crucem passus ;
Tantus labor non sit cassus»