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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... person can rest with comfort . Reduced to the alternative of taking lodgings in a hovel , or of ma- king a diversion of half a day's ride from a direct course , the latter was preferred ; and after partaking of a déjeuné , which was of ...
... person can rest with comfort . Reduced to the alternative of taking lodgings in a hovel , or of ma- king a diversion of half a day's ride from a direct course , the latter was preferred ; and after partaking of a déjeuné , which was of ...
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... persons in ill health , such inconveniences become dangerous and intolerable . The beds are uniformly good , and the furniture of rooms is often elegant . In sum- mer , travelling in France is doubtless far more agreeable ; for French ...
... persons in ill health , such inconveniences become dangerous and intolerable . The beds are uniformly good , and the furniture of rooms is often elegant . In sum- mer , travelling in France is doubtless far more agreeable ; for French ...
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... persons of any kind were seen - two of them were shepherds or rather goatherds , who were sheltering themselves under a cliff far above our heads . Their tattered garments , long beards , and red caps gave them rather an un ...
... persons of any kind were seen - two of them were shepherds or rather goatherds , who were sheltering themselves under a cliff far above our heads . Their tattered garments , long beards , and red caps gave them rather an un ...
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... persons to walk abreast , sweeps more than half way round the port . In winter it forms the principal promenade of the citizens , being guarded by walls on the summit , open to the sun , sheltered by the long ranges of buildings on one ...
... persons to walk abreast , sweeps more than half way round the port . In winter it forms the principal promenade of the citizens , being guarded by walls on the summit , open to the sun , sheltered by the long ranges of buildings on one ...
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... person of ordinary taste willingly be an actual spectator of the scenes portrayed in any one of the above mentioned pictures ? and if not , how can he contemplate the delineation of them with compla- cency ? So far as the representation ...
... person of ordinary taste willingly be an actual spectator of the scenes portrayed in any one of the above mentioned pictures ? and if not , how can he contemplate the delineation of them with compla- cency ? So far as the representation ...
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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...