Letters from Europe: Comprising the Journal of a Tour Through Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Italy, and Switzerland in the Years 1825, '26, and '27G. & C. Carvill, 1829 - Europe |
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... rich and varied landscape . The mode of cultivating wheat is somewhat peculiar . It is sown in rows , and innumerable companies of females were busy in stirring the ground about the roots , and in plucking up the superfluous stalks ...
... rich and varied landscape . The mode of cultivating wheat is somewhat peculiar . It is sown in rows , and innumerable companies of females were busy in stirring the ground about the roots , and in plucking up the superfluous stalks ...
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... rich and beautiful in its prime , but now in tatters , according well with unhinged tables , defaced mirrors , and shattered sofas . After a short walk by moonlight , which was found too dim to disclose the outlines and the ruins of ...
... rich and beautiful in its prime , but now in tatters , according well with unhinged tables , defaced mirrors , and shattered sofas . After a short walk by moonlight , which was found too dim to disclose the outlines and the ruins of ...
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... rich and beautiful country , at the base of olive - crowned hills , and so close to the margin of the sea , as frequently to re- quire terraces hanging upon the rocks . The same brilliant phenomenon was here observed , as in the ...
... rich and beautiful country , at the base of olive - crowned hills , and so close to the margin of the sea , as frequently to re- quire terraces hanging upon the rocks . The same brilliant phenomenon was here observed , as in the ...
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... rich border of fields , studded with white villages , extends round the head of the bay , across which Nice is seen at the distance of fifteen or twenty miles ; and beyond , the Maritime Alps lift their snowy summits to the clouds ...
... rich border of fields , studded with white villages , extends round the head of the bay , across which Nice is seen at the distance of fifteen or twenty miles ; and beyond , the Maritime Alps lift their snowy summits to the clouds ...
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... rich in rural wealth , retired from the rest of the world , and blest with unbroken quiet . The inhabitants who are plain , simple , and mild in their manners , appear to be contented and happy , looking out from their so- litudes upon ...
... rich in rural wealth , retired from the rest of the world , and blest with unbroken quiet . The inhabitants who are plain , simple , and mild in their manners , appear to be contented and happy , looking out from their so- litudes upon ...
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Page 376 - 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.
Page 2 - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Page 308 - 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.
Page 127 - 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.
Page 185 - 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.
Page 2 - In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ;
Page 169 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Page 151 - Byron has in three lines presented an exact image of this hill, which — " from out the plain Heaves, like a long swept wave about to break, And on the curl hangs pausing.
Page 435 - Aonio rediens deducam vertice Musas; primus Idumaeas referam tibi, Mantua, palmas et viridi in campo templum de marmore ponam propter aquam, tardis ingens ubi flexibus errat Mincius et tenera praetexit harundine ripas.
Page 422 - By turning the latter round to the right or to the left, as the case may be...