Impressions of Central and Southern Europe: Being Notes of Successive Journeys in Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, and the LevantLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850 - 388 Seiten |
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... . Farewell to Greece . A Ship at Sea . Appearance of Malta from the Water . Quarantine Laws . Their vexatious Nature . The Lazaretto . Defences of Valetta . The Maltese . Military - 262 X CONTENTS . CHAP . XVII . Interior of Malta.
... . Farewell to Greece . A Ship at Sea . Appearance of Malta from the Water . Quarantine Laws . Their vexatious Nature . The Lazaretto . Defences of Valetta . The Maltese . Military - 262 X CONTENTS . CHAP . XVII . Interior of Malta.
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... appearance . The women are exceed- ingly plain - looking : you always find them at work among the crops , and perhaps this exposure to the weather mars their beauty . We were not much impressed with the splendour of Stuttgard . It is a ...
... appearance . The women are exceed- ingly plain - looking : you always find them at work among the crops , and perhaps this exposure to the weather mars their beauty . We were not much impressed with the splendour of Stuttgard . It is a ...
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... appearance . Slowly our voiture rolled along this waste , till , arrived at the brow of the hill , we looked down on the vast forti- fications of Ulm . The name of this irregularly built dirty old town recalls many incidents in the ...
... appearance . Slowly our voiture rolled along this waste , till , arrived at the brow of the hill , we looked down on the vast forti- fications of Ulm . The name of this irregularly built dirty old town recalls many incidents in the ...
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... appearance to this town . We welcomed the presence of railway carriages in which to per- form the tedious journey from the banks of the Leck to the city of Munich . A dull uninteresting plain it certainly is ; but beyond its sandy downs ...
... appearance to this town . We welcomed the presence of railway carriages in which to per- form the tedious journey from the banks of the Leck to the city of Munich . A dull uninteresting plain it certainly is ; but beyond its sandy downs ...
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... appearance , with their wooden roofs covered with large stones to prevent damage from storms . Each has beside it an immense pile of firewood , most systematically built , and ready for use during the long winter . The first thing which ...
... appearance , with their wooden roofs covered with large stones to prevent damage from storms . Each has beside it an immense pile of firewood , most systematically built , and ready for use during the long winter . The first thing which ...
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Seite 268 - SLOW sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, ^ Along Morea's hills the setting sun ; Not, as in Northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light ! O'er the hushed deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows.
Seite 249 - God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands...
Seite 108 - Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep ; and drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood ; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper...
Seite 99 - Thy habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Seite 268 - O'er the hushed deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows. On old ^Egina's rock, and Idra's isle, The god of gladness sheds his parting smile ; O'er his own regions lingering, loves to shine, Though there his altars are no more divine. Descending fast the mountain shadows kiss Thy glorious gulf...
Seite 371 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Seite 268 - Salamis ! Their azure arches through the long expanse More deeply purpled meet his mellowing glance, And tenderest tints, along their summits driven, Mark his gay course and own the hues of heaven ; Till, darkly shaded from the land and deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sleep.
Seite 26 - Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind. Why have I stray'd from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows ? In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings or tyrant laws restrain, How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure...
Seite 144 - He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that ; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith he mauna fa' that ! For a
Seite 151 - God is a Spirit, and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth.