Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Holland, Belgium, and the RhineThos. Cook&Son, 1874 - 179 Seiten |
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Cook's Tourists' Handbook for Holland, Belgium, and the Rhine (1880) Cook And Son Thomas Cook and Son,Thomas Cook Publishing Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2008 |
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Abbey of Villers abound Aix-la-Chapelle Amsterdam ancient Andernach Antwerp Baden banks Basle beautiful Belgium Bingen boat bridge Bruges Brussels building canals castle Cathedral celebrated century chapel Charlemagne charming Church of St Class and Fore Class and Saloon Coblentz Cologne COOK & SON Cook's curious door Duke Dutch English excursions famous feet Flemish Fore Cabin Forest France Frankfort French garden German Ghent Grand Hotel ground Harwich Heidelberg Holland Hotel Coupons Hougomont hour houses inhabitants interest journey King legend Liege London LUDGATE CIRCUS Maestricht magnificent Mayence Metz monument mountains Museum neighbourhood Odenwald Ostend paintings Palace pass picturesque population Prussian Quentin Matsys railway remarkable Rhine river Roman Rotterdam route Rubens ruins scene scenery Second Class seen Steamers stone story Strassburg streets THOMAS COOK Tickets tomb Tour tourist tower town traveller trees Verviers Vesdre viâ villages wall Waterloo yard
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Seite 55 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Seite 61 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Seite 54 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness ; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Seite 63 - The river nobly foams and flows, The charm of this enchanted ground, And all its thousand turns disclose Some fresher beauty varying round : The haughtiest breast its wish might bound Through life to dwell delighted here ; Nor could on earth a spot be found To nature and to me so dear, Could thy dear eyes in following mine Still sweeten more these banks of Rhine ! LVI. By Coblentz, on a rise of gentle ground, There is a small and simple pyramid, Crowning the summit of the verdant mound ; Beneath...
Seite 36 - THE BELFRY OF BRUGES. IN the market-place of Bruges stands the belfry old and brown; Thrice consumed and thrice rebuilded, still it watches o'er the town. As the summer morn was breaking, on that lofty tower I stood, And the world threw off the darkness, like the weeds of widowhood. Thick with towns and hamlets studded, and with streams and vapors gray, Like a shield embossed with silver, round and vast the landscape lay.
Seite 94 - tis an excellent bonfire!" quoth he; "And the country is greatly obliged to me For ridding it, in these times forlorn, Of rats that only consume the corn." So then to his palace returned he, And he sat down to supper merrily, And he slept that night like an innocent man; But Bishop Hatto never slept again. In the morning, as he...
Seite 72 - And forever and forever, As long as the river flows, As long as the heart has passions, As long as life has woes ; The moon and its broken reflection And its shadows shall appear, As the symbol of love in heaven, And its wavering image here.
Seite 94 - He listened and looked ; it was only the cat ; But the Bishop he grew more fearful for that ; For she sat screaming, mad with fear At the army of rats that were drawing near.
Seite 85 - 3 with her shatter'd wall Black with the miner's blast, upon her height Yet shows of what she was, when shell and ball Rebounding idly on her strength did light; A tower of victory!
Seite 69 - IN Kohln, a town of monks and bones, And pavements fang'd with murderous stones, And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches; I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks ! Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne ; But tell me, nymphs ! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine ? ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTURE FROM THE SAME CITY.