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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... style as was observed in the Tower of London . Along the aisles formed by fluted columns of spears and muskets , are statues clad in ancient mail , bearing shields which are embossed with various historical devices . In the centre of ...
... style as was observed in the Tower of London . Along the aisles formed by fluted columns of spears and muskets , are statues clad in ancient mail , bearing shields which are embossed with various historical devices . In the centre of ...
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... style . Handsome carpets cover the floors , and the wares of Birmingham impart cheerfulness to the hearth . The whole of this day was busily occupied in rambling over the town , which is a dull place and contains but few works of art ...
... style . Handsome carpets cover the floors , and the wares of Birmingham impart cheerfulness to the hearth . The whole of this day was busily occupied in rambling over the town , which is a dull place and contains but few works of art ...
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... style of magnificence which nothing can surpass , consisting of long terraces , often hewn from the solid rock , and hanging upon the crags thousands of feet above the sea . Had he remained upon the throne a few years longer , the whole ...
... style of magnificence which nothing can surpass , consisting of long terraces , often hewn from the solid rock , and hanging upon the crags thousands of feet above the sea . Had he remained upon the throne a few years longer , the whole ...
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... style with carpets and other fire - side comforts ; and it is without exception the best , as well as one of the cheapest hotels we have found upon the conti- By an odd coincidence , the waiter appointed to at- tend us had passed two or ...
... style with carpets and other fire - side comforts ; and it is without exception the best , as well as one of the cheapest hotels we have found upon the conti- By an odd coincidence , the waiter appointed to at- tend us had passed two or ...
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... style of magnificence as the Strada Balbi , with which they are connected , opening a wide and superb passage through nearly the whole extent of the city , bordered on both sides by long façades of palaces , three or four stories high ...
... style of magnificence as the Strada Balbi , with which they are connected , opening a wide and superb passage through nearly the whole extent of the city , bordered on both sides by long façades of palaces , three or four stories high ...
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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.
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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.
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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...