Holidays Abroad: Or, Europe from the West, Bind 2Baker and Scribner, 1849 |
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Side 95
... castle , tower or ruin ; scarce a level expanse among the slopes but has its monastery or its chapel . Here an aqueduct , there a bridge ; now a merry harvest - field , now a close - built town , whose narrow street has an ar- cade on ...
... castle , tower or ruin ; scarce a level expanse among the slopes but has its monastery or its chapel . Here an aqueduct , there a bridge ; now a merry harvest - field , now a close - built town , whose narrow street has an ar- cade on ...
Side 104
... castle ; nearer to us the heights of Solfatara ; and round all the beautiful sea , with boats and large ves- sels giving interest to its wide expanse - it is enough to make one forget everything but Rome - and home . In approaching ...
... castle ; nearer to us the heights of Solfatara ; and round all the beautiful sea , with boats and large ves- sels giving interest to its wide expanse - it is enough to make one forget everything but Rome - and home . In approaching ...
Side 135
... Castle of Realt , said to have been built by an Etruscan Prince in 287. But as we approached , we found the veritable castle on the summit of this round tower of ours , looking like a mere apple - paring in comparison . One loses all ...
... Castle of Realt , said to have been built by an Etruscan Prince in 287. But as we approached , we found the veritable castle on the summit of this round tower of ours , looking like a mere apple - paring in comparison . One loses all ...
Side 167
... castle of Unspunnen , where Byron conceived the idea of Manfred . It is a noble ruin ; and the association adds the tragic element which is essential to sublimity . I had fancied Manfred's castle upon a more terrific height , but ...
... castle of Unspunnen , where Byron conceived the idea of Manfred . It is a noble ruin ; and the association adds the tragic element which is essential to sublimity . I had fancied Manfred's castle upon a more terrific height , but ...
Side 174
... castle ( 700 years old say the books , ) but could not , the prefêt or some equally impor- tant public functionary having taken up his abode there . But at the top of the long flights of stone steps by which we had climbed to this ...
... castle ( 700 years old say the books , ) but could not , the prefêt or some equally impor- tant public functionary having taken up his abode there . But at the top of the long flights of stone steps by which we had climbed to this ...
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Alps American amusing ancient appearance arches artist beautiful carriage castle cathedral charming Chiavenna church clean Colosseum curious dinner door dress elegant England English eyes feel feet French gallery garden gentleman Ghent give goitre grand Haarlem horses Hotel imagination immense interest Interlachen Italian Italy Jan Steen ladies lake least light look Lungern magnificent marble Martigny Mont Blanc morning mosaic mountain Naples never omnibus ornamented ourselves painted palace pass perfect perhaps Peter's picturesque pleasant pleasure Pompei portrait Posilipo Pozzuoli pretty priest Rhine rich Rigi road Rome ruins scene Schlangenbad seemed seen shore side sort splendid Splügen statue steamer stone street Swiss Switzerland table d'hôte taste Temple things thought tion tomb took towers town traveller Vesuvius Vevay villa Villa Muti walk walls whole women wonderful young
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Side 188 - Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Side 188 - A sunbeam which hath lost its way, And through the crevice and the cleft Of the thick wall is fallen and left...
Side 188 - Dying as their father died, For the God their foes denied ; Three were in a dungeon cast, Of whom this wreck is left the last.
Side 226 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united! For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Side 30 - When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath. " And they rose up and put him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw him down headlong.