Holidays Abroad: Or, Europe from the West, Bind 1Baker and Scribner, 1849 |
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admire afford Alessandria appearance Baptistery beautiful breakfast bridge campanile carpet-bag carriage castle Cathedral Chambéry chapel charming church Civita Castellana comfortable courier crowd curious delightful dinner doors dress elegant England English exquisite eyes feel Florence Foligno Folkestone French gallery garden Genoa give grand hills Hotel Hotel du Nord houses idea imagination immense interest Italian Italy ladies landscape Lars Porsena least London look lovely Lucca magnificent marble monument morning mountains Narni natural never night once one's ourselves painted palace Paris Park pass perhaps Perugia picturesque Pitti Palace pleasant pleasure poor pretty quiet relics rich road Rome round scene seems seen side sight splendid splendor stand statue stone streets taste Terni things thought tion told tomb tower town traveller Tryon County Turin village walk walls whole women wonderful
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Side 247 - East and west and south and north The messengers ride fast, And tower and town and cottage Have heard the trumpet's blast. Shame on the false Etruscan Who lingers in his home, When Porsena of Clusium Is on the march for Rome.
Side 117 - A POOR Relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature — a piece of impertinent correspondency — an odious approximation — a haunting conscience — a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity — an unwelcome remembrancer...
Side 249 - The harvests of Arretium This year old men shall reap, This year young boys in Umbro Shall plunge the struggling sheep, And in the vats of Luna This year the must shall foam Round the white feet of laughing girls Whose sires have marched to Rome.
Side 66 - Did he, who thus inscrib'd the wall, Not read, or not believe St. Paul, 'Who says there is, -where'er it stands, Another house not made with hands ; Or may we gather from these words, That house is not a house of lords...
Side 117 - Agathocles' pot, a Mordecai in your gate, a Lazarus at your door, a lion in your path, a frog in your chamber, a fly in your ointment, a mote in your eye, a triumph to your enemy, an apology to your friends, the one thing not needful, the hail in harvest, the ounce of sour in a pound of sweet.
Side 213 - Some of his skill he taught to me ; And, Warrior, I could say to thee The words, that cleft Eildon hills in three, And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone...
Side 180 - But not altogether approving of his having broken it to pieces with so much ease, to secure himself from the like danger for the future, he made it over again, fencing it with small bars of iron within, in such a manner, that he rested satisfied of its strength ; and without caring to make a fresh experiment on it, he approved and looked upon it as a most excellent helmet.
Side 24 - ... frequently reminded by the largeness of her admiration, that she is expressing her astonishment rather than her critical opinion. She is certainly one of the warmest admirers of England that it has been our fortune to meet. How truly the impulsive woman's nature is shown in the following apostrophe! " Who shall describe the exquisite delight with which the land is welcomed at the termination of a first voyage across the ocean ! To see mere earth, though it were but a handful, enough to smell...