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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... 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 conjecture . The eminence on which it stands overlooks the antique stone houses and tiled ...
... 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 conjecture . The eminence on which it stands overlooks the antique stone houses and tiled ...
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... feet in height , and wide enough at top to form a fine promenade . In the sides of this rampart , substantially built of stone , are long rows of arched niches , four or five feet in depth ; and nearly on a level with the water , a wide ...
... feet in height , and wide enough at top to form a fine promenade . In the sides of this rampart , substantially built of stone , are long rows of arched niches , four or five feet in depth ; and nearly on a level with the water , a wide ...
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... feet , and terminating in the bold promontory of Montalbano , composed of ledges of brown rock and forming one of the boundaries of the bay , which spreads between Nice and Antibes . From the south , the sea rolls in its waves upon the ...
... feet , and terminating in the bold promontory of Montalbano , composed of ledges of brown rock and forming one of the boundaries of the bay , which spreads between Nice and Antibes . From the south , the sea rolls in its waves upon the ...
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... feet above the water , and fre- quently shelving , so that the traveller hears the sea beating and thun- dering beneath his feet with a grandeur absolutely terrific . In one place , the road pierces a precipice for the distance of ...
... feet above the water , and fre- quently shelving , so that the traveller hears the sea beating and thun- dering beneath his feet with a grandeur absolutely terrific . In one place , the road pierces a precipice for the distance of ...
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... feet , at the very base of the Apennines , rising with inaccessible acclivities to the north . The other façade looks immediately upon the city , the port , and the sea - upon that city which the patriot chief had emancipated , and upon ...
... feet , at the very base of the Apennines , rising with inaccessible acclivities to the north . The other façade looks immediately upon the city , the port , and the sea - upon that city which the patriot chief had emancipated , and upon ...
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Popular passages
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...