Letters from Europe, the journal of a tour through Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Italy, and Switzerland, in 1825, '26, and '27, Band 2 |
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... hundred of these pass in procession , with severe but dejected countenances , on the way to their stalls , to partake of a coarse and scanty allowance . Their chains are differ- ently worn , being in some cases fastened like fetters ...
... hundred of these pass in procession , with severe but dejected countenances , on the way to their stalls , to partake of a coarse and scanty allowance . Their chains are differ- ently worn , being in some cases fastened like fetters ...
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... hundred of these pass in procession , with severe but dejected countenances , on the way to their stalls , to partake of a coarse and scanty allowance . Their chains are differ- ently worn , being in some cases fastened like fetters ...
... hundred of these pass in procession , with severe but dejected countenances , on the way to their stalls , to partake of a coarse and scanty allowance . Their chains are differ- ently worn , being in some cases fastened like fetters ...
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... hundred . We went on board the largest of them , the Royal Louis , having three decks , and carrying 130 guns . She is a monstrous , misshapen pile ; in her best estate a clumsy , heavy , unwieldy mass , now dismantled , laid up in ...
... hundred . We went on board the largest of them , the Royal Louis , having three decks , and carrying 130 guns . She is a monstrous , misshapen pile ; in her best estate a clumsy , heavy , unwieldy mass , now dismantled , laid up in ...
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... hundred splendid cities ; enriched by the works of art ; and containing an active popu- lation of thirty or forty millions - what might not such a country be- come with political , civil , and religious institutions free as our own ...
... hundred splendid cities ; enriched by the works of art ; and containing an active popu- lation of thirty or forty millions - what might not such a country be- come with political , civil , and religious institutions free as our own ...
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... hundred feet above the tops of the houses , by which it is encircled on all sides , except towards the sea , where a terraced road has been extended round its base , to connect the two sections of the town . This curious mount covers se ...
... hundred feet above the tops of the houses , by which it is encircled on all sides , except towards the sea , where a terraced road has been extended round its base , to connect the two sections of the town . This curious mount covers se ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Alps altar ancient Angelo antique Apennines appeared Appian arches Arno artist arts bank beautiful borders bridge buildings Campagna di Roma Capitoline Hill celebrated chapel charming church coach cross distance Domenichino Doric order edifice embellishments erected examined excursion exhibiting females Florence French frescos front gallery garden gate Genoa grandeur half height hills Holy hundred feet inhabitants inscription Italian Italy lake LETTER lofty look Madonna magnificent marble miles monuments morning mountains Naples Napoleon o'clock occupied ornaments palace Parian marble passed pavement picture pillars Pisa poet Pompeii Pope porphyry present rich rising road rocks Roman Rome round ruins sarcophagus scene scenery seated seen shore shrine side spacious splendid splendour stands statues streets style summit taste temple theatre Tiber tion Titian tomb Toulon towers town traveller Tuscany vale village Virgil walk walls whole
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 160 - 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 381 - 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 288 - 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 105 - 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 298 - Oh, sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains piled on mountains, to the skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
Seite 224 - The King of France with twenty thousand men, • Marched up the hill, and then marched down again.
Seite 144 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Seite 435 - By turning the latter round to the right or to the left, as the case may be...