Popular Voyages and Travels Throughout the Continent & Islands of Europe: In which the Geography, Character, Customs, and Manners of Nations are Described, and the Phenomena of Nature, Most Worthy of Observation, are Illustrated on Scientific PrinciplesG. & W.B. Whittaker, 1820 - Всего страниц: 506 |
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... continued - Places of Worship - Petersburgh- Palace of Ice Russian Peasantry - Travelling on Sledges , & c .... ―― III . Russian Nobility Affecting Tale of a Young Princess— Baseness of Count Orloff 207 216 221 IV . Journey continued ...
... continued - Places of Worship - Petersburgh- Palace of Ice Russian Peasantry - Travelling on Sledges , & c .... ―― III . Russian Nobility Affecting Tale of a Young Princess— Baseness of Count Orloff 207 216 221 IV . Journey continued ...
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... continued - Excursion to Montea- Milan Cathedral - Lodi - Buonaparte Mantua Virgil Church of St. Justina - Padua - Verona .... IV . Venice - Manners of the Venetians - Theatres - Panto- mime - Remarkable Arlequino and Signor Grimaldi ...
... continued - Excursion to Montea- Milan Cathedral - Lodi - Buonaparte Mantua Virgil Church of St. Justina - Padua - Verona .... IV . Venice - Manners of the Venetians - Theatres - Panto- mime - Remarkable Arlequino and Signor Grimaldi ...
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... Worcester . But , " continued he , " I should like sometimes to deviate from the direct road . DR . W.- " You shall be gratified in this request , although our perambulations must not extend far out of the beaten 2 INTRODUCTION .
... Worcester . But , " continued he , " I should like sometimes to deviate from the direct road . DR . W.- " You shall be gratified in this request , although our perambulations must not extend far out of the beaten 2 INTRODUCTION .
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... continued he , would be to attempt an Herculean task ; a volume , indeed , would scarcely suffice to detail the beauties and wonders it con- tains . As to the foundations of the different colleges , by whom , and when , any geographical ...
... continued he , would be to attempt an Herculean task ; a volume , indeed , would scarcely suffice to detail the beauties and wonders it con- tains . As to the foundations of the different colleges , by whom , and when , any geographical ...
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... continued burning for many months , until large streams of water were conducted into the mines , and suffered to fill those parts where the coal was burning . By such fires several collieries have been totally destroyed , of which there ...
... continued burning for many months , until large streams of water were conducted into the mines , and suffered to fill those parts where the coal was burning . By such fires several collieries have been totally destroyed , of which there ...
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Стр. 225 - Though hard and rare; thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Стр. 148 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory...
Стр. 378 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now...
Стр. 210 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Стр. 225 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Стр. 29 - ... numberless series of pilasters, arches, castles, well delineated, regular columns, lofty towers, superb palaces, with balconies and windows, extended alleys of trees, delightful plains, with herds and flocks, armies of men on foot...
Стр. 95 - The mind can hardly form an idea more magnificent than such a space, supported on each side by ranges of columns, and roofed by the bottoms of those which have been broken off in order to form it, between the angles of which a yellow stalagmitic matter has exuded, which serves to define the angles precisely, and at the same time vary the colour with a great deal of elegance ; and to render it still more agreeable, the whole is lighted from without...
Стр. 225 - Tunes her nocturnal note: thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Стр. 471 - Nor breathes the spirit of a purer air ; In every clime the magnet of his soul, Touch'd by remembrance, trembles to that pole ; For in this land of Heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of Nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely bless'd, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Стр. 494 - Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep : And to the murmur of these waters sleep : Ah spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave, And drink in silence, or in silence lave.