Letters from Europe: Comprising the Journal of a Tour Through Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Italy, and Switzerland in the Years 1825, '26, and '27G. & C. Carvill, 1829 |
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... descends into a beautiful glen , watered by clear brooks and fountains , smiling with tillage , and bloom- ing with flowers . The transition is sudden , and the contrast peculiarly striking . Here I saw for the first time in my life ...
... descends into a beautiful glen , watered by clear brooks and fountains , smiling with tillage , and bloom- ing with flowers . The transition is sudden , and the contrast peculiarly striking . Here I saw for the first time in my life ...
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... descended rapidly into a sunny , fertile vale , opening to the south , and like the environs of Nice , blooming with gardens , and groves of the orange and citron , laden with golden fruit . What a change was here within a single hour ...
... descended rapidly into a sunny , fertile vale , opening to the south , and like the environs of Nice , blooming with gardens , and groves of the orange and citron , laden with golden fruit . What a change was here within a single hour ...
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... descended just at eve- ning into the Vale of Albenga , which is the largest traversed on this route , and is watered by a considerable stream . It is four or five miles wide , where it opens upon the sea ; and the eye is enabled to ...
... descended just at eve- ning into the Vale of Albenga , which is the largest traversed on this route , and is watered by a considerable stream . It is four or five miles wide , where it opens upon the sea ; and the eye is enabled to ...
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... descends gracefully upon the shoulders , somewhat like the costume of the ancient Vestal Virgins . The first group we met , dressed in this way , were taken for nuns , as the white drapery , without hats or ornaments of any kind , give ...
... descends gracefully upon the shoulders , somewhat like the costume of the ancient Vestal Virgins . The first group we met , dressed in this way , were taken for nuns , as the white drapery , without hats or ornaments of any kind , give ...
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... descended simultaneously with the king from the heights of the Bochetta ; but he thundered on in his coach and six upon the full gallop , unceremoniously leaving the proces- sion of courtiers who went to meet him , far in the rear , and ...
... descended simultaneously with the king from the heights of the Bochetta ; but he thundered on in his coach and six upon the full gallop , unceremoniously leaving the proces- sion of courtiers who went to meet him , far in the rear , and ...
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Alps altar ancient Andrew Doria Angelo antique Apennines appeared Appian arches Arno artist bank bas-relief beautiful borders bridge brow buildings Campagna Campagna di Roma Capitoline Hill Cathedral celebrated chapel charming church cicerone cliffs coach colossal columns cross descended distance dome Doric order edifice embellishments erected excursion exhibiting extends Florence front gallery garden gate Genoa Genoese grandeur half Herculaneum hills Holy hundred feet Italian Italy Janiculum lake latter lofty magnificent miles monument morning mountains Naples nearly o'clock ornaments palace Parian marble pavement picture picturesque pillars Pisa poet Pompeii Pope porphyry present rich rising road rocks Roman Rome round ruins sarcophagus scene scenery seated seen shaded shore shrine side spacious splendid splendour stands statues streets summit taste temple terrace theatre Tiber tion tomb towers town traveller vale village Virgil walls white marble whole
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Seite 376 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Seite 2 - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Seite 308 - Blessed art thou, Simon Bar Jona, because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven. And I say to thee, that thou art Peter; and upon this rock will I build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Seite 127 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Seite 185 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Seite 2 - In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ;
Seite 169 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Seite 151 - Byron has in three lines presented an exact image of this hill, which — " from out the plain Heaves, like a long swept wave about to break, And on the curl hangs pausing.
Seite 435 - Aonio rediens deducam vertice Musas; primus Idumaeas referam tibi, Mantua, palmas et viridi in campo templum de marmore ponam propter aquam, tardis ingens ubi flexibus errat Mincius et tenera praetexit harundine ripas.
Seite 422 - By turning the latter round to the right or to the left, as the case may be...