France illustrated, exhibiting its landscape scenery, antiquities, &c. Drawing by T. Allom, Band 2;Band 266 |
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admirable adorned agreeable Allom altar Amboise amongst ancient Angoulême antiquity apsis arches architecture banks beautiful Bigorre bridge building castle cathedral Cauterets celebrated centre century Chambord chapel character château château of Amboise chief Chinon choir church Cloud decorated Drawn by T.Allom Duke of Guise Duke of Orleans Engraved entrance erected favourite feet Fontainbleau France French gallery Gothic grand Guise height Henri Quatre hills Hôtel de Ville hundred Isère king lofty Loire Louis Philippe Louis XVI Louvre Luchon Madeleine majestic marble Mary mountains Napoleon noble NOTRE-DAME ornament palace Paris passed Pic du Midi picturesque present prince Prince of Condé proximity of blood Pyrenees queen reign Rhone rich rise river Rochemaure rock Roman roof royal ruins saloon Saumur scene scenery sculpture seated side soffit spot stands style summit temple throne torrent Tours towers town vale valley Valois venerable village walls waters wind
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Seite 21 - The negligently grand, the fruitful bloom Of coming ripeness, the white city's sheen, The rolling stream, the precipice's gloom, The forest's growth, and Gothic walls between, The wild rocks shaped as they had turrets been, In mockery of man's art ; and these withal A race of faces happy as the scene, Whose fertile bounties here extend to all, Still springing o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fall.
Seite 25 - Enter: its grandeur overwhelms thee not; And why? It is not lessen'd; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal, and can only find A fit abode wherein appear enshrined Thy hopes of immortality; and thou Shalt one day, if found worthy, so defined, See thy God face to face, as thou dost now His Holy of Holies, nor be blasted by his brow.
Seite 22 - And there they stand, as stands a lofty mind, Worn, but unstooping to the baser crowd, All tenantless, save to the crannying wind, Or holding dark communion with the cloud.
Seite 42 - Is deep enriched with vegetable life ; Till, in the western sky, the downward sun Looks out, effulgent, from amid the flush Of broken clouds, gay-shifting to his beam. The rapid radiance instantaneous strikes The...
Seite 16 - The allied powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, the Emperor Napoleon, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to...
Seite 5 - Grey birch and aspen wept beneath ; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock ; And, higher yet, the pine-tree hung His shatter'd trunk, and frequent flung, Where seem'd the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the narrow'd sky.
Seite 17 - I had a party to dinner this day, but all my rhetoric was insufficient to prevail on my landlady to serve it h I'anglaise, that is, to give the fish and vegetables as part of the first course. Her obstinacy so put me out of temper, that to her great astonishment and mortification I threw the whole of the first course, consisting entirely of French dishes, out of the window, dishes included; and ordering up the second, we made a tolerable dinner of it.
Seite 59 - Into one place, and let dry land appear.' Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds; their tops ascend the sky: So high as...
Seite 54 - And seek the homely cots, or mountain's hollow side. The rapid rains, descending from the hills, To rolling torrents raise the creeping rills. The queen and prince, as Love or Fortune guides, One common cavern in her bosom hides.