Letters from Europe: Comprising the Journal of a Tour Through Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Italy, and Switzerland, in the Years 1825,' 26,and '27, Volume 2C. &. H. Carvil, 1829 - Europe |
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... descends into a beautiful glen , watered by clear brooks and fountains , smiling with tillage , and bloom- ing with flowers . The transition is sudden , and the contrast peculiarly striking . Here I saw for the first time in my ite ...
... descends into a beautiful glen , watered by clear brooks and fountains , smiling with tillage , and bloom- ing with flowers . The transition is sudden , and the contrast peculiarly striking . Here I saw for the first time in my ite ...
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... descended rapidly into a sunny , fertile vale , opening to the south , and like the environs of Nice , blooming with gardens , and groves of the orange and citron , laden with golden fruit . What a change was here within a single hour ...
... descended rapidly into a sunny , fertile vale , opening to the south , and like the environs of Nice , blooming with gardens , and groves of the orange and citron , laden with golden fruit . What a change was here within a single hour ...
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... descended just at eve- ning into the Vale of Albenga , which is the largest traversed on this route , and is watered by a considerable stream . It is four or five miles wide , where it opens upon the sea ; and the eye is enabled to ...
... descended just at eve- ning into the Vale of Albenga , which is the largest traversed on this route , and is watered by a considerable stream . It is four or five miles wide , where it opens upon the sea ; and the eye is enabled to ...
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... descends gracefully upon the shoulders , somewhat like the costume of the ancient Vestal Virgins . The first group we met , dressed in this way , were taken for nuns , as the white drapery , without hats or ornaments of any kind , give ...
... descends gracefully upon the shoulders , somewhat like the costume of the ancient Vestal Virgins . The first group we met , dressed in this way , were taken for nuns , as the white drapery , without hats or ornaments of any kind , give ...
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... descended simultaneously with the king from the heights of the Bochetta ; but he thundered on in his coach and six upon the full gallop , unceremoniously leaving the proces- sion of courtiers who went to meet him , far in the rear , and ...
... descended simultaneously with the king from the heights of the Bochetta ; but he thundered on in his coach and six upon the full gallop , unceremoniously leaving the proces- sion of courtiers who went to meet him , far in the rear , and ...
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Page 121 - 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 2 - In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States. entitled, " an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an act, entitled, " an act, supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Page 280 - 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 125 - His legions, angel forms, who lay entranced, Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades, High overarched, embower...
Page 2 - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Page 179 - 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 346 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, 30 And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.
Page 163 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Page 145 - 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 390 - By turning the latter round to the right or to the left, as the case may be...