Letters from Europe, the journal of a tour through Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Italy, and Switzerland, in 1825, '26, and '27, Volume 2 |
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... covered with vineyards and olives , hanging upon terraces , and rising stage above stage ; while be- tween the ranges on either hand , fertile and sunny vales of moderate breadth , and cultivated with the utmost neatness , open ...
... covered with vineyards and olives , hanging upon terraces , and rising stage above stage ; while be- tween the ranges on either hand , fertile and sunny vales of moderate breadth , and cultivated with the utmost neatness , open ...
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... covered with vineyards and olives , hanging upon terraces , and rising stage above stage ; while be- tween the ranges on either hand , fertile and sunny vales of moderate breadth , and cultivated with the utmost neatness , open ...
... covered with vineyards and olives , hanging upon terraces , and rising stage above stage ; while be- tween the ranges on either hand , fertile and sunny vales of moderate breadth , and cultivated with the utmost neatness , open ...
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... covered with green sod , and crowned by an old fan- tastic tower seventy or eighty feet in height . From an inscription on its exterior wall , it appears to have been erected in 1661 ; but for what purpose , it is difficult to ...
... covered with green sod , and crowned by an old fan- tastic tower seventy or eighty feet in height . From an inscription on its exterior wall , it appears to have been erected in 1661 ; but for what purpose , it is difficult to ...
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... covered with carpets or rugs , and slightly warmed by a fire , thrown almost out of sight at the back of a deep chimney . I have often climbed the bed , before venturing of a frosty night to take off my slippers . To persons in ill ...
... covered with carpets or rugs , and slightly warmed by a fire , thrown almost out of sight at the back of a deep chimney . I have often climbed the bed , before venturing of a frosty night to take off my slippers . To persons in ill ...
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... covered with flowers , and overlooking the town , with the Alps on one side , and the sea upon the other . As good a table and attendance were here found , as the most fastidious traveller could wish . In the waiter , for the first time ...
... covered with flowers , and overlooking the town , with the Alps on one side , and the sea upon the other . As good a table and attendance were here found , as the most fastidious traveller could wish . In the waiter , for the first time ...
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Page 160 - 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 381 - 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 288 - 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 105 - 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 298 - Oh, sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains piled on mountains, to the skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
Page 224 - The King of France with twenty thousand men, • Marched up the hill, and then marched down again.
Page 144 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Page 435 - By turning the latter round to the right or to the left, as the case may be...