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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... nature and art . Crossing two draw - bridges over the double moat by which the town is surrounded , and passing under the mas- sive arched portals , which form the barrier , we rode through several of the principal streets , to the ...
... nature and art . Crossing two draw - bridges over the double moat by which the town is surrounded , and passing under the mas- sive arched portals , which form the barrier , we rode through several of the principal streets , to the ...
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... natural situation of the town is admirably fit- ted for a great military and naval depot ; and meu less skill- ed in war than Louis XIV . or Napoleon might have selected it as the bulwark of the southern frontier of France . It is ...
... natural situation of the town is admirably fit- ted for a great military and naval depot ; and meu less skill- ed in war than Louis XIV . or Napoleon might have selected it as the bulwark of the southern frontier of France . It is ...
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... family and their attachées , with maids of honour as well as of dishonour , from the pink of nobility , down to Madame Polistron , the Count's mistress , grass and moss , presenting a beautiful image of nature LETTERS FROM EUROPE . 17.
... family and their attachées , with maids of honour as well as of dishonour , from the pink of nobility , down to Madame Polistron , the Count's mistress , grass and moss , presenting a beautiful image of nature LETTERS FROM EUROPE . 17.
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... nature . Seats have been erected , where visitants may repose in the shade , and enjoy the coolness and the murmur of this little water - fall . The plants of the garden all bear labels , designating their generic and specific names . A ...
... nature . Seats have been erected , where visitants may repose in the shade , and enjoy the coolness and the murmur of this little water - fall . The plants of the garden all bear labels , designating their generic and specific names . A ...
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... churches and other religious edifices upon high places . In France the practice almost universally prevails , and numerous chapels and convents were this day grass and moss , presenting a beautiful image of nature LETTERS FROM EUROPE . 19.
... churches and other religious edifices upon high places . In France the practice almost universally prevails , and numerous chapels and convents were this day grass and moss , presenting a beautiful image of nature LETTERS FROM EUROPE . 19.
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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...