Auvergne, Piedmont, and Savoy: A Summer RambleJohn W. Parker, 1801 - 351 páginas |
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... huge conger eels , several hundreds of which were twisting and twining in Medusa hair fashion . The auctioneer was a sturdy fishwife , who , with stentorian voice , lauded the quality of the sea serpents . At ten we started for Paris ...
... huge conger eels , several hundreds of which were twisting and twining in Medusa hair fashion . The auctioneer was a sturdy fishwife , who , with stentorian voice , lauded the quality of the sea serpents . At ten we started for Paris ...
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... huge build- ing , the scene of so many stirring events , and think of the weak old man , its last occupier , who a few months ago was hedged around with all the pomp and circumstance of royalty , now occupying humble rooms in a small ...
... huge build- ing , the scene of so many stirring events , and think of the weak old man , its last occupier , who a few months ago was hedged around with all the pomp and circumstance of royalty , now occupying humble rooms in a small ...
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... huge apartments . Then national feelings of pride found quick expression , and we thought of our own modest - sized exhibition , with its Turners , its Linnells , its Stanfields , Grants , Creswicks , & c . & c . , and we exclaimed ...
... huge apartments . Then national feelings of pride found quick expression , and we thought of our own modest - sized exhibition , with its Turners , its Linnells , its Stanfields , Grants , Creswicks , & c . & c . , and we exclaimed ...
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... huge bazaar . It is a wise regulation that no object is allowed to be sold - otherwise visitors would be tempted above the power of resistance . Crowds of people of all classes moved through the alleys— working - men in their blue ...
... huge bazaar . It is a wise regulation that no object is allowed to be sold - otherwise visitors would be tempted above the power of resistance . Crowds of people of all classes moved through the alleys— working - men in their blue ...
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... huge pile can only be seen in its comprehensiveness from the decks of penny steamboats . In a climate like that of London , florid Gothic architecture is nearly as inappropriate as Chinese , and yet millions of pounds are expended in ...
... huge pile can only be seen in its comprehensiveness from the decks of penny steamboats . In a climate like that of London , florid Gothic architecture is nearly as inappropriate as Chinese , and yet millions of pounds are expended in ...
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Auvergne, Piedmont, and Savoy: A Summer Ramble (Classic Reprint) Charles Richard Weld Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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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.