Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book for travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through portions of Rhenish Prussia, Bind 201853 |
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... paintings , and architecture , at the same time that we have illustrated them by very beautiful engravings . In all our arrangements we have observed , so far as possible , a simple and con- densed style ; and wherever practicable have ...
... paintings , and architecture , at the same time that we have illustrated them by very beautiful engravings . In all our arrangements we have observed , so far as possible , a simple and con- densed style ; and wherever practicable have ...
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... painter . LAND TENURE . - Short leases of nine years are the rule . Rents are high . There are many tenant farmers and many peasant owners . For example , in the province of Brabant , there are 54,000 owners and 29,000 tenants ; in ...
... painter . LAND TENURE . - Short leases of nine years are the rule . Rents are high . There are many tenant farmers and many peasant owners . For example , in the province of Brabant , there are 54,000 owners and 29,000 tenants ; in ...
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... paintings , sculptures , engravings , and designs of the best artists . The most meritorious works are rewarded by medals of gold , silver , and bronze . MANNERS AND CUSTOMS . - The Belgians have been successively subjected to the ...
... paintings , sculptures , engravings , and designs of the best artists . The most meritorious works are rewarded by medals of gold , silver , and bronze . MANNERS AND CUSTOMS . - The Belgians have been successively subjected to the ...
Side xxv
... painting , we find an eminent degree of perfection characterising its productions , whilst its masters and students ... painters was established at Bruges . This corporation of artists , in the reign of Philip the Good , enjoyed a ...
... painting , we find an eminent degree of perfection characterising its productions , whilst its masters and students ... painters was established at Bruges . This corporation of artists , in the reign of Philip the Good , enjoyed a ...
Side xxvi
... painting had been practised in Italy . With the works of Van Eyck and his brother must be associated Hans Hemling ... painters . " In the present age , Belgium possesses a School of Living Artists , whose pro- ductions , especially those ...
... painting had been practised in Italy . With the works of Van Eyck and his brother must be associated Hans Hemling ... painters . " In the present age , Belgium possesses a School of Living Artists , whose pro- ductions , especially those ...
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Abbey accommodation altar ancient Antwerp Apartments Baden Baths beautiful Belgian Belgium Bruges Brussels building built canal Carriages castle Cathedral celebrated centre century chapel Charleroi château choir Church of St Coblenz Cologne comfort commands contains Counts of Flanders Courtray crosses dinner Duke East Flanders Emperor English spoken English travellers erected establishment excellent feet first-class first-class Hotel first-rate Flanders formerly France French garden German Ghent Gothic GRAND HOTEL Hans Hemling hill Holland inhabitants Liége magnificent Mayence Meuse miles moderate charges monument Moselle mountains Namur o'clock Omnibuses opposite Ostend OTEL paintings Palace Paris passes Pension picturesque population Prince principal Promenade Proprietor Prussia rail Railway Station remarkable residence Rhine right bank river road Roman Rooms Route Royal Rubens ruins Saloon Scheldt side single gentlemen situated splendid Steamers streets style Table d'Hôte Theatre tion Tournay tower town Trèves valley village visitors wine
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Side 39 - 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 turned from all she brought to those she could not bring.
Side 35 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope shall moulder cold and low.
Side 70 - DIARRHOEA, and is the only specific in CHOLERA and DYSENTERY. CHLORODYNE effectually cuts short all attacks of Epilepsy, Hysteria, Palpitation, and Spasms. CHLORODYNE is the only palliative in Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Gout, Cancer, Toothache, Meningitis, &c.
Side 91 - Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with...
Side 87 - And there they stand, as stands a lofty mind, Worn, but unstooping to the baser crowd, All tenantless, save to the crannying Wind, Or holding dark communion with the Cloud. There was a day when they were young and proud ; Banners on high, and battles passed below ; But they who fought are in a bloody shroud, And those which waved are shredless dust ere now, And the bleak battlements shall bear no future blow.
Side 186 - LANGE, Proprietor. This Hotel is in the best situation of the town. near the Promenade, the King's Theatre, the Museum, &c.; it is most elegantly furnished, and offers good accommodation for all classes of travellers.
Side 80 - There are rivers, whose course is longer, and whose volume of water is greater, but none which unites almost every thing that can render an earthly object magnificent and charming, in the same degree as the Rhine. As it flows down from the distant ridges of the Alps, through fertile regions into the open sea, so it comes down from remote antiquity, associated in every age with momentous events in the history...
Side 70 - ADVICE TO INVALIDS.— If you wish to obtain quiet, refreshing sleep, free from headache, relief from pain and anguish, to calm and assuage the weary achings of protracted disease, invigorate the nervous...
Side 70 - CHLORODYNE effectually checks and arrests those too often fatal diseases : Diphtheria, Fever, Croup, Ague. CHLORODYNE acts like a charm in Diarrhoea, and is the only specific in Cholera and Dysentery CHLORODYNE effectually cuts short all attacks of Epilepsy, Hysteria, Palpitation and Spasms.
Side xxvi - Rubens stands in the esteem of the world is alone a sufficient reason for some examination of his pretensions. His fame is extended over a great part of the Continent, without a rival: and it may be justly said that he has enriched his...