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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... perhaps , discretion the better part of valour , the English- man left the table , and afterwards took his dinner in his own room . On the evening previous to his departure , the Frenchman invited us to take coffee , and a glass of ...
... perhaps , discretion the better part of valour , the English- man left the table , and afterwards took his dinner in his own room . On the evening previous to his departure , the Frenchman invited us to take coffee , and a glass of ...
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... perhaps , discretion the better part of valour , the English- man left the table , and afterwards took his dinner in his own room . On the evening previous to his departure , the Frenchman invited us to take coffee , and a glass of ...
... perhaps , discretion the better part of valour , the English- man left the table , and afterwards took his dinner in his own room . On the evening previous to his departure , the Frenchman invited us to take coffee , and a glass of ...
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... perhaps , con- tains a greater variety of interesting objects than France ; and after a sojourn of four months , the last foot of its territory was trodden not without feelings of regret , high as were our anticipations of enjoyment in ...
... perhaps , con- tains a greater variety of interesting objects than France ; and after a sojourn of four months , the last foot of its territory was trodden not without feelings of regret , high as were our anticipations of enjoyment in ...
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... perhaps the stately range of build- ings , with arcades in their basements , encircling the spacious open area , denominated the Piazza Vittoria from VICTOR AMADEUS III . to whom it owes its embellishments , and in honour of whom a ...
... perhaps the stately range of build- ings , with arcades in their basements , encircling the spacious open area , denominated the Piazza Vittoria from VICTOR AMADEUS III . to whom it owes its embellishments , and in honour of whom a ...
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... perhaps fifty females were employed in carrying baskets of sand upon their heads , to mend the road , while a large party of men , consisting probably of their husbands and brothers , were engaged in playing ball near by , and a group ...
... perhaps fifty females were employed in carrying baskets of sand upon their heads , to mend the road , while a large party of men , consisting probably of their husbands and brothers , were engaged in playing ball near by , and a group ...
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...