Auvergne, Piedmont, and Savoy: A Summer RambleJohn W. Parker, 1801 - 351 páginas |
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... Rocky dwelling - Roche des Fées - Roche Vendeix - The Roi des Pillards -Saw Mills - Peasants ' - bouses - Auvergnat patois - Excursion to St. Nectaire - The Tartarec -- Extraordinary volcanic country -- Dan- gerous riding - St ...
... Rocky dwelling - Roche des Fées - Roche Vendeix - The Roi des Pillards -Saw Mills - Peasants ' - bouses - Auvergnat patois - Excursion to St. Nectaire - The Tartarec -- Extraordinary volcanic country -- Dan- gerous riding - St ...
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... Rocky path - Bourg St. Maurice - Col de Bon- homme - Moutiers - Salt works - Defile of the Doron - Salt springs -Process of evaporation - Ingenious contrivance - Effect of great earthquake of Lisbon on the salt springs - Quantity of ...
... Rocky path - Bourg St. Maurice - Col de Bon- homme - Moutiers - Salt works - Defile of the Doron - Salt springs -Process of evaporation - Ingenious contrivance - Effect of great earthquake of Lisbon on the salt springs - Quantity of ...
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... a brawling , noisy infant of a river , plunged into the wild hollows of the broken land , amidst abrupt rocks and desolate chasms , and , passing these , came upon a steep rocky path , 88 EQUESTRIAN PRECAUTIONS . It was which led to the.
... a brawling , noisy infant of a river , plunged into the wild hollows of the broken land , amidst abrupt rocks and desolate chasms , and , passing these , came upon a steep rocky path , 88 EQUESTRIAN PRECAUTIONS . It was which led to the.
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... rocky ladders , the horses which I have ridden have in no one instance fallen . Careful riding is necessary to lead to such a result . I cannot think that the advice , so often given , to leave the horse to himself , is judicious . Let ...
... rocky ladders , the horses which I have ridden have in no one instance fallen . Careful riding is necessary to lead to such a result . I cannot think that the advice , so often given , to leave the horse to himself , is judicious . Let ...
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... rocky castle , and was so daring and energetic that Froissart , who treats of his history , declares that nothing came amiss to him that was not too hot or too heavy . ' No vestige of his den now remains ; but so fantastically are the ...
... rocky castle , and was so daring and energetic that Froissart , who treats of his history , declares that nothing came amiss to him that was not too hot or too heavy . ' No vestige of his den now remains ; but so fantastically are the ...
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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.