The narrative of a journey, undertaken in ... 1819, 1820 & 1821, through France, Italy, Savoy, Switzerland, parts of Germany bordering on the Rhine, Holland, and the NetherlandsSmith, Elder, 1834 - 368 Seiten |
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... rests his chief hope of the approbation of the public , upon having given a plain and faithful statement of a journey , which must be regarded as possessing a degree of originality , arising from the peculiar circumstances under which ...
... rests his chief hope of the approbation of the public , upon having given a plain and faithful statement of a journey , which must be regarded as possessing a degree of originality , arising from the peculiar circumstances under which ...
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... rest , I was content to leave it to God , upon whose protec- tion , in the midst of dangers , I had the most im- plicit reliance , and under whose providential guid- ance , I doubted not to attain the completion of the various objects ...
... rest , I was content to leave it to God , upon whose protec- tion , in the midst of dangers , I had the most im- plicit reliance , and under whose providential guid- ance , I doubted not to attain the completion of the various objects ...
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... rest . In the morning I arose early , and inhaled the fresh breeze upon the pier , a wooden structure , which extends itself for a considerable distance into the sea . At the extremity near the town , is a pillar , erected by the loyal ...
... rest . In the morning I arose early , and inhaled the fresh breeze upon the pier , a wooden structure , which extends itself for a considerable distance into the sea . At the extremity near the town , is a pillar , erected by the loyal ...
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... hundred miles at one sitting , with the exception of the short rest at Tours , I would recommend the English traveller to accomplish some part of his journey in a voiture de voyage , 24 PARISIAN BOARDING - HOUSE . and then rest for.
... hundred miles at one sitting , with the exception of the short rest at Tours , I would recommend the English traveller to accomplish some part of his journey in a voiture de voyage , 24 PARISIAN BOARDING - HOUSE . and then rest for.
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James Holman. 24 PARISIAN BOARDING - HOUSE . and then rest for a day or two ; or perhaps he might , in the first instance , take a place in a re- gular coach , termed a jumeaux , which travels to Tours in two days ; after which the ...
James Holman. 24 PARISIAN BOARDING - HOUSE . and then rest for a day or two ; or perhaps he might , in the first instance , take a place in a re- gular coach , termed a jumeaux , which travels to Tours in two days ; after which the ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquainted afternoon afterwards agreeable amongst amusement appeared arrived ascended attention Austrian baths beautiful breakfast captain carriage cathedral celebrated CHAP church Cimea coach commenced companions conducteur consequence delightful departure diligence dined dinner distance English entered favourable feet felucca Florence following day following morning formed four francs French Genoa gentleman gratification Haarlem horses interesting Italian Italy JAMES HOLMAN journey kind La Scala lady Lake Agnano latter leave Leghorn length Madame magnificent marble ment Milan miles Montpellier MOUNT VESUVIUS mountain Naples Nice night Nimeguen notwithstanding o'clock obliged ourselves palace PALACE OF CASERTA Paris party passed passports pleasure POMPEII proceeded rain reached residence Rhine river road Rome Ronciglione Savona side situated soon streets Sunday supper table d'hôte theatre tion took Toulouse town travelling Turin vessel village visited vittureno voiture walk whole wind wine
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 226 - My father's spirit in arms ! all is not well; I doubt some foul play: 'would, the night were come! Till then sit still, my soul: Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
Seite 253 - Imagination's tender frame, From nerve to nerve; all naked and alive They catch the spreading rays; till now the soul At length discloses every tuneful spring, To that harmonious movement from without Responsive. Then the inexpressive strain Diffuses its enchantment: Fancy dreams Of sacred fountains and Elysian groves, And vales of bliss...
Seite v - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Seite 311 - A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies...
Seite 273 - And she, proud Austria's mournful flower, Thy still imperial bride, How bears her breast the torturing hour ? Still clings she to thy side ? Must she too bend, must she too share Thy late repentance, long despair, Thou throneless Homicide ? If still she loves thee, hoard that gem — 'Tis worth thy vanished diadem!
Seite 293 - While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind ; But, more advanced, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise.
Seite 275 - True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
Seite 290 - Thine evil deeds are writ in gore, Nor written thus in vain — Thy triumphs tell of fame no more, Or deepen every stain : If thou hadst died as honour dies, Some new Napoleon might arise, To shame the world again — But who would soar the solar height, To set in such a starless night ? Weigh'd in the balance, hero dust Is vile as vulgar clay; Thy scales, Mortality!
Seite 179 - Red sheets of fire seemed to blaze upwards into the glowing heavens, and then to pour down their liquid streams upon the earth. This was followed by an incessant and complicated display of every varied device that imagination could figure, one changing into another, and the beauty of the first effaced by that of the last. Hundreds of immense wheels turned round with a velocity that almost seemed as if demons were whirling them, letting fall thousands of hissing dragons...
Seite 299 - Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread; No product here the barren hills afford, But man and steel, the soldier and his sword...