A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent: Being a Guide to Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Northern Germany, and the Rhine from Holland to SwitzerlandJ. Murray, 1853 - 567 Seiten |
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15th cent Altenahr Amsterdam ancient antiquity Antwerp artist Baden bank baths beautiful Belgium Berlin bridge Bruges Brussels building built called canal carriage carved castle chapel Charlemagne choir church Coblenz Cologne coloured contains cross curious Dresden Duke Duke of Nassau Dutch dykes Elbe Elector English erected excursion fortress France Frankfurt French gardens gate Germ German Ghent Gothic Haarlem hill Holland horses Hotel inhab Inns King Lahn land Liége Mayence ment Meuse monument Moselle Nassau nearly opposite ornamented Ostend painted Palace passes passport picture picturesque portraits Post Prince Prussian railroad railway remarkable residence Rhine river road rock Roman Rotterdam round ROUTE Rubens ruins Saxon Saxon Switzerland Schloss Schnellpost side situated spot Stat steamer stone streets style tion tower town traveller Treves valley village Virgin walk walls wood Zuider Zee
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Seite ix - TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Seite 262 - The river nobly foams and flows, The charm of this enchanted ground, And all its thousand turns disclose Some fresher beauty varying round : The haughtiest breast its wish might bound Through life to dwell delighted here ; Nor could on earth a spot be found To nature and to me so dear, Could thy dear eyes in following mine Still sweeten more these banks of Rhine ! LVI. By Coblentz, on a rise of gentle ground, There is a small and simple pyramid, Crowning the summit of the verdant mound ; Beneath...
Seite ix - The things to be seen and observed, are the. courts of princes, especially when they give audience to ambassadors; the courts of justice, while they sit and hear causes; and so of consistories...
Seite 168 - There have been tears and breaking hearts for thee, And mine were nothing, had I such to give ; But when I stood beneath the fresh green tree, Which living waves where thou didst cease to live, And saw around me the wide field revive With fruits and fertile promise, and the Spring Come forth her work of gladness to contrive, With all her reckless birds upon the wing, I turn'd from all she brought to those she could not bring.
Seite x - As for the acquaintance which is to be sought in travel, that which is most of all profitable, is acquaintance with the secretaries and employed men of ambassadors ; for so in travelling in one country he shall suck the experience of 10 many.
Seite 254 - Adieu to thee, fair Rhine ! How long delighted The stranger fain would linger on his way ! Thine is a scene alike where souls united Or lonely Contemplation thus might stray ; And could the ceaseless vultures cease to prey On self.condemning bosoms, it were here, Where Nature, nor too sombre nor too gay, Wild but not rude, awful yet not austere, Is to the mellow Earth as Autumn to the year.
Seite 252 - The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne ; But tell me, Nymphs ! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine ? ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTURE FROM THE SAME CITY.
Seite 262 - And peasant girls, with deep blue eyes, And hands which offer early flowers, Walk smiling o'er this paradise...
Seite 284 - He listen'd and look'd : it was only the cat ; But the bishop he grew more fearful for that ; For she sat screaming, mad with fear At the army of rats that were drawing near.
Seite 255 - The negligently grand, the fruitful bloom Of coming ripeness, the white city's sheen, The rolling stream, the precipice's gloom, The forest's growth, and Gothic walls between, The wild rocks shaped as they had turrets been In mockery of man's art; and these withal A race of faces happy as the scene, Whose fertile bounties here extend to all, Still springing o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fall.