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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... extremely picturesque . For the whole distance an excellent road winds among calcareous hills , the white , craggy tops of which appear at a distance as if snow - clad . Their steep sides are covered with vineyards and olives , hanging ...
... extremely picturesque . For the whole distance an excellent road winds among calcareous hills , the white , craggy tops of which appear at a distance as if snow - clad . Their steep sides are covered with vineyards and olives , hanging ...
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... extremely difficult for strangers to gain admittance , even on letters of recommendation , which none of our party had taken . At the table of the hotel at Marseilles , we became acquainted with a Surgeon in the Royal Navy , who mani ...
... extremely difficult for strangers to gain admittance , even on letters of recommendation , which none of our party had taken . At the table of the hotel at Marseilles , we became acquainted with a Surgeon in the Royal Navy , who mani ...
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... extremely productive . Groves of olives , vine- yards , and fields of grain , enlivened by the bloom of the peach and almond , extended on all sides as far as the eye could reach , forming a rich and varied landscape . The mode of ...
... extremely productive . Groves of olives , vine- yards , and fields of grain , enlivened by the bloom of the peach and almond , extended on all sides as far as the eye could reach , forming a rich and varied landscape . The mode of ...
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... extremely picturesque , consisting of mountains clothed with forests , and valleys green with olives and corn . In one place an extensive grove of pines was ob- served the first that had been seen in France . The wea- ther was as mild ...
... extremely picturesque , consisting of mountains clothed with forests , and valleys green with olives and corn . In one place an extensive grove of pines was ob- served the first that had been seen in France . The wea- ther was as mild ...
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... extremely picturesque , enclosed by impassable ramparts , on all sides except the south , en- joying a delicious climate , rich in rural wealth , retired from the rest of the world , and blest with unbroken quiet . The inhabitants who ...
... extremely picturesque , enclosed by impassable ramparts , on all sides except the south , en- joying a delicious climate , rich in rural wealth , retired from the rest of the world , and blest with unbroken quiet . The inhabitants who ...
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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...