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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... walls . The bulwarks , gates and bridges are massive and strong beyond any thing of the kind I have ever seen ; and the inhabitants of Toulon might apparently bid defiance to the combined armies of Europe . From the parapet of the double ...
... walls . The bulwarks , gates and bridges are massive and strong beyond any thing of the kind I have ever seen ; and the inhabitants of Toulon might apparently bid defiance to the combined armies of Europe . From the parapet of the double ...
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... walls . The bulwarks , gates and bridges are massive and strong beyond any thing of the kind I have ever seen ; and the inhabitants of Toulon might apparently bid defiance to the combined armies of Europe . From the parapet of the double ...
... walls . The bulwarks , gates and bridges are massive and strong beyond any thing of the kind I have ever seen ; and the inhabitants of Toulon might apparently bid defiance to the combined armies of Europe . From the parapet of the double ...
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... walls and near the base of the hills which rise to the north of the town , was among our last and most pleasant excursions . The location is admirable , the grounds lying upon a declivity which looks to the south , and always enjoys the ...
... walls and near the base of the hills which rise to the north of the town , was among our last and most pleasant excursions . The location is admirable , the grounds lying upon a declivity which looks to the south , and always enjoys the ...
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... walls are yet tolerably entire , but encumbered with weeds and rub- bish . From this desolate pile , the scene of vanished gaieties , we walked quite round the ancient ramparts of the city , making a cir- cuit of a mile or two , which ...
... walls are yet tolerably entire , but encumbered with weeds and rub- bish . From this desolate pile , the scene of vanished gaieties , we walked quite round the ancient ramparts of the city , making a cir- cuit of a mile or two , which ...
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... walls , we took lodgings for the night , at an excellent hotel in the centre of the town . An odd and unexpected saluation was received at the threshold . Two subalterns , in the French uniform , came up and addressed us in English ...
... walls , we took lodgings for the night , at an excellent hotel in the centre of the town . An odd and unexpected saluation was received at the threshold . Two subalterns , in the French uniform , came up and addressed us in English ...
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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...