Auvergne, Piedmont, and Savoy: A Summer RambleJohn W. Parker, 1801 - 351 páginas |
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... horses - St . Laurent- Dinner - Ascend the mountain - Lovely scenery - The Guiers Mort -Charcoal burners - Deep gorge - First view of the monastery- Reception by a Carthusian - The interior - Chartreuse liqueur— Conducted over the ...
... horses - St . Laurent- Dinner - Ascend the mountain - Lovely scenery - The Guiers Mort -Charcoal burners - Deep gorge - First view of the monastery- Reception by a Carthusian - The interior - Chartreuse liqueur— Conducted over the ...
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... horse omnibus , you are rattled over interminable stones , which , from their unevenness , you imagine have not settled down since they were impressed into barricade service , and finally reach that celebrated hotel . All this happened ...
... horse omnibus , you are rattled over interminable stones , which , from their unevenness , you imagine have not settled down since they were impressed into barricade service , and finally reach that celebrated hotel . All this happened ...
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... horses have sometimes been shod in a similar manner . The real fact is , that Jacques was too wealthy and successful to remain unmolested by numerous enemies . He was accused of adulterating the coinage -a strange charge to bring ...
... horses have sometimes been shod in a similar manner . The real fact is , that Jacques was too wealthy and successful to remain unmolested by numerous enemies . He was accused of adulterating the coinage -a strange charge to bring ...
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... horse was ordered out , and after the usual tedious delays which ever accompany a start in France , we passed out of the yard , the landlord doing us the honour of enact- ing the part of coachman . It was now ten o'clock , and we were ...
... horse was ordered out , and after the usual tedious delays which ever accompany a start in France , we passed out of the yard , the landlord doing us the honour of enact- ing the part of coachman . It was now ten o'clock , and we were ...
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... horses , wonderful to relate , careering along with , for a French public conveyance , surprising celerity . It was on the point of passing us , when our driver threw down the reins of his horse , jumped from his seat , and rushed after ...
... horses , wonderful to relate , careering along with , for a French public conveyance , surprising celerity . It was on the point of passing us , when our driver threw down the reins of his horse , jumped from his seat , and rushed after ...
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Auvergne, Piedmont, and Savoy: A Summer Ramble (Classic Reprint) Charles Richard Weld Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
Auvergne, Piedmont, and Savoy: A Summer Ramble (Classic Reprint) Charles Richard Weld Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
Términos y frases comunes
Alpine Alps amidst Annonay appeared arrived ascend Auvergnats Auvergne basaltic baths beautiful bell beneath Bourges breakfast Briançon BRIANÇONNOIS called carriage Carthusians castle cathedral Chartreuse church Clermont convent coupé cross curious dark defile descended diligence English entered eyes feet fish forest France French garçon gorge GRANDE CHARTREUSE Grenoble hands Hautes Alpes height horse huge hundred inhabitants Isère Jacques journey ladies lake landlord Lanslebourg Le Puy looking Madame magnificent miles monks Mont Dore morning mountain Nérondes night o'clock occupied Paris passed path peasants picturesque Polignac portmanteaus precipices present priest railway reader road rocks rocky Roman round salon scene scenery seats seen side sketch streets summit Susa table d'hôte thousand tion tourist town traveller trees trout Turin Val d'Isère valley village visited visitors volcanic Voreppe walk walls wonderful Yssingeaux
Pasajes populares
Página 246 - Ah come not, write not, think not once of me, Nor share one pang of all I felt for thee. Thy oaths I quit, thy memory resign; Forget, renounce me, hate whate'er was mine. Fair eyes, and tempting looks (which yet I view!) Long lov'd, ador'd ideas!
Página 136 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Página 222 - Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep, — that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live. — I look on high ; Has some unknown omnipotence unfurled The veil of life and death ? or do I lie In dream, and does the mightier world of sleep...
Página 142 - Not vainly did the early Persian make His altar the high places and the peak Of earth-o'ergazing mountains, and thus take A fit and unwall'd temple, there to seek The Spirit in whose honour shrines are weak, Uprear'd of human hands. Come and compare Columns and idol-dwellings, Goth or Greek, With Nature's realms of worship, earth and air, Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer.
Página iv - To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the Brooks which down their channels fret, Even more than when I...
Página 270 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our Fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Página 117 - And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.
Página 99 - This morning, dear mother, as soon as 'twas light, I was wak'd by a noise that astonish'd me quite ; For in Tabitha's chamber I heard such a clatter, I could not conceive what the deuce was the matter ; And, would you believe it, I went up and found her In a blanket, with two lusty fellows around her, Who both seem'da going to carry her off in A little black box, just the size of a coffin: Description of the Bathing. ' Pray tell me,' says I,
Página 139 - Then stirs the feeling, infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone ; A truth, which through our being then doth melt, And purifies from self: it is a tone, The soul and source of music, which makes known Eternal harmony, and sheds a charm, Like to the fabled Cytherea's zone, Binding all things with beauty ; — 'twould disarm The spectre Death, had he substantial power to harm.
Página 244 - Nous ne permettons jamais aux femmes d'entrer dans notre enceinte ; car nous savons que ni le sage, ni le prophète, ni le juge, ni l'hôte de Dieu, ni ses enfans, ni même le premier modèle sorti de ses mains, n'ont pu échapper aux caresses ou aux tromperies des femmes.