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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... surrounded by water ; when they were , in fact , in the midst of burning sands , is attributed to this same cause . " SECTION VI . THE MANUFACTURE OF PORCELAIN . WHEN Edward rose the next morning , Malvern hills being covered with a ...
... surrounded by water ; when they were , in fact , in the midst of burning sands , is attributed to this same cause . " SECTION VI . THE MANUFACTURE OF PORCELAIN . WHEN Edward rose the next morning , Malvern hills being covered with a ...
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... surrounded , when a choir of voices burst upon them , and the Doctor involuntarily exclaimed , " Where should this music be ! i ' th ' air , or the earth . " " ' Tis like enchantment , " said Edward , as the voices echoed through the ...
... surrounded , when a choir of voices burst upon them , and the Doctor involuntarily exclaimed , " Where should this music be ! i ' th ' air , or the earth . " " ' Tis like enchantment , " said Edward , as the voices echoed through the ...
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... surrounded by a wall , and appears to have been formerly well fortified in its neighbourhood large flocks of sheep are fed . From the sea - shore they saw Harlech castle , and Kader - Idris , by some persons reckoned higher than Snowdon ...
... surrounded by a wall , and appears to have been formerly well fortified in its neighbourhood large flocks of sheep are fed . From the sea - shore they saw Harlech castle , and Kader - Idris , by some persons reckoned higher than Snowdon ...
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... description was found in Ireland . It is six inches long by four and a half broad ; it is surrounded by stones of various colours , and set in brass mixed with silver . Druids in council , and hence arose the proverb in 60 WALES .
... description was found in Ireland . It is six inches long by four and a half broad ; it is surrounded by stones of various colours , and set in brass mixed with silver . Druids in council , and hence arose the proverb in 60 WALES .
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... surrounded by high mountains , and it is properly divided into three parts , called the lower , middle , and upper lakes . The northern , or lower lake , is about six miles in length , and from three to four in breadth , The country on ...
... surrounded by high mountains , and it is properly divided into three parts , called the lower , middle , and upper lakes . The northern , or lower lake , is about six miles in length , and from three to four in breadth , The country on ...
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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.