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Fire and brimstone from heaven, from earth, in hell, or, Three discourses I. Concerning…
Fire and brimstone from heaven, from earth, in hell, or, Three discourses I. Concerning the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah formerly, II. Concerning the burning of Æetna, or Mount Gibel more lately, III. Concerning the burning of the wicked eternally, with fire and brimstone / by Thomas Vincent ...
London: printed for George Calvert, 1670
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Claudian de raptu Proserpinae lib. 1. Aetnaeos api•s sols cognoscere visu Non aditu tentare licet—
Quae tanta cavernas Vis glomerat, quo fonteruat Vulcanius igni•.
None may approach Mount Aetna's head to know With foot, 'tis only reached with th'eye below. Great force within round caverns makes From whence rush forth Vulcanian flakes Of fire, as from a Fountain—
None may approach Mount Aetna's head to know With foot, 'tis only reacht with th'eye below. Great force within round caverns makes From whence rush forth Vulcanian flakes Of fire, as from a Fountain—
But Virgil giveth the most notable description of Aetna's burning in his third Book of Aeneids.
But Virgil giveth the most notable decription of Aetna's burning in his third Book of Aeneids.