Eustace, John Cretwode: A classical tour through Italy An. MDCCCII (Vol. 3): 3. ed., rev. and enl (London: J. Mawman, 1815)

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purer, a softer radiance*, and introduced into
them the immortal spirits of the good made
happy.
Hie raanus ob patriam pugnando vulnera passi:
Quique sacerdotes casti dum vita manebat:
Quique pii vates et Phaebo digna locuti ....
Quique sui memores alios fecere merendo. Lib. vi.
In short, not a wood, a lake, a promontory, ap-
pears on the coast before me, that has not been
distinguished by some illustrious name, or em-
bellished by some splendid fiction. In contem-
plating a prospect thus adorned by nature, and
thus ennobled by genius; the theatre of the most
sublime and most instructive fables that the
human mind ever invented ; we may be allowed,
as we bewilder ourselves in the mazes of classical
illusion, to indulge a momentary enthusiasm;
Audire et videor pios
Errare per lucos, amienae
Quos et aquae subeunt, et aurae. Hor·
But the scenes before me owe not their graces
and their interest to poetry only ; history has
had its share in the decoration and renown of

. . . lumine vestit
Purpureo