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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... walls of Christ - church , I do not chuse you should take a superficial glance of what is deserving a very large portion of your time and attention . I myself was brought up at Cambridge , and I confess I feel anxious you should also ...
... walls of Christ - church , I do not chuse you should take a superficial glance of what is deserving a very large portion of your time and attention . I myself was brought up at Cambridge , and I confess I feel anxious you should also ...
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... walls , foundations of houses , and a great number of sepulchral burrows , which clearly prove that they have been cultivated , and conse- quently inhabited . That they were inhabited by Britons , is past all doubt , for they have not ...
... walls , foundations of houses , and a great number of sepulchral burrows , which clearly prove that they have been cultivated , and conse- quently inhabited . That they were inhabited by Britons , is past all doubt , for they have not ...
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... walls and ruins are frequently discovered , on those spots which at a full sea are covered with water ten or twelve feet deep . History confirms their former union . The isles Cassiterides , ' says Strabo , are ten in number , close to ...
... walls and ruins are frequently discovered , on those spots which at a full sea are covered with water ten or twelve feet deep . History confirms their former union . The isles Cassiterides , ' says Strabo , are ten in number , close to ...
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... walls . It is nearly eighty feet high , and since its completion has been repeatedly assailed by the fury of the elements without suffering the least injury . " EDWARD . " What a life the poor men must have who at tend to the light . In ...
... walls . It is nearly eighty feet high , and since its completion has been repeatedly assailed by the fury of the elements without suffering the least injury . " EDWARD . " What a life the poor men must have who at tend to the light . In ...
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... wall behind it , and forming the back ground of the pic- ture ; on a sudden there appears in the water , as in a catop- tric theatre , various multiplied objects ; that is to say , num- berless series of pilastres , arches , castles ...
... wall behind it , and forming the back ground of the pic- ture ; on a sudden there appears in the water , as in a catop- tric theatre , various multiplied objects ; that is to say , num- berless series of pilastres , arches , castles ...
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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.