Journal of a Few Months Residence in Portugal and Glimpses of the South of Spain, Band 1Edward Moxon, 1847 - 247 Seiten |
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Seite 221 - Nay, such was the rage for copying the last new fashions, that at the next carnival, when all devout Roman Catholics dance and disguise themselves, an equestrian mask appeared, to the rapture of streets and balconies, representing
Seite x - I resisted the temptation of getting up a few "moving accidents and hairbreadth 'scapes," and of so giving to my Journal the attraction of a Story-book. The truth is, as I believe, that unless you lay yourself out for danger by some bravado, or some indiscretion of temper, or by neglect of such ordinary precautions as are customary and reasonable, you may, when the country is not overrun with civil warriors, travel in Portugal as securely, if not so smoothly, as you can navigate the Thames from Vauxhall...
Seite 141 - ... sheltered sunshine, or lordly castle frowns from commanding height, perched just where Turner would have wished them. But it is among the mountains that our Lady of the Lakes always finds herself most at home, watching the fleeting vapours which bear her on shadowy wings far away to other hills. ' There, it was a pompous army of clouds marching and deploying under me; here, it was one vast stiff body of whitest fog imbedded on our left in the deep valley which it filled, and so motionless, so...
Seite 241 - ... juxtaposition of the rival creeds: — ' One ceremony of the church of Rome, when it takes place at night, may impress even a true-hearted member of the Protestant church of England -with religious awe, and this is the procession which bears through the streets the last sacrament to the dying Christian : a little tinkling bell warns you of its approach ; voices are heard chanting a hymn ; you go to your window ; already the canopy, under which the priest walks, bearing the host, is passing your...
Seite 51 - ... souffrir pour etre belle.' No sooner arrived at Barcellos than a Portuguese fidalgo ' came to pay his respects, and to invite us, on the part of his wife, and mother, and daughters, to a little ball, which they had suddenly determined on getting up for us in honour of our letter of recommendation. We declined it, because we felt that we had no spare strength to waste on dancing, but must husband what we had for the hard work before us. I have since thought that it was a stupid spiritless thing...
Seite 18 - It was at night; the signal gun of our English steamer roused me from a deep sleep. I got up; opened the shutters. A full moon was shining brilliantly; the white breakers of the bar were as visible as they were audible; beyond the bar, southwards, the sea was...
Seite 189 - THE struggling rill insensibly is grown Into a brook of loud and stately march, Crossed ever and anon by plank or arch ' And, for like use, lo ! what might seem a zone Chosen for ornament, stone matched with stone In studied symmetry, with interspace For the clear waters to pursue their race Without restraint.