"Ischia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... islands form part of a chain of land that may be traced forming a circular line from the cape Missene to the mount Circello at the other side of the Gulf of Gaeta. The islands of Ischia and Procida, which form part of this chain of land, might, from the inspection of the map, be allowed as having once formed a continuation of the land from the continent of Italy, even without the testimony of natural history, that traces this connection ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton
... which we slide with ease, But find no hold our crawling steps to raise: Within confusion, turbulence, annoy Are mix'd; undoubted woe, and doubtful joy: Vulcano, where the sooty Cyclops dwell; Liparis, Stromboli, nor Mongibel, Nor Ischia, have more horrid noise and smoke: He hates himself that stoops to such a yoke. Thus were we all throng'd in so strait a cage, I changed my looks and hair, before my age, Dreaming on liberty (by strong desire My soul made apt to hope), and did admire Those gallant minds, enslaved to such ...
— The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch • Petrarch
... pudic arteries with the median line, A A, we find that they are removed from it at a wider interval below than above; and also that where the vessels first enter the perinaeal space, winding around the spines of the ischia, they are much deeper in this situation (on a level with the base of the bladder) than they are when arrived opposite the bulb of the urethra. The transverse line B B, drawn in front of the anus from one tuber ischii to the other, is seen to divide the perinaeum into the anterior and posterior spaces, ...
— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise |
