Change of Air; Or, The Diary of a Philosopher in Pursuit of Health and Recreation Illustrating the Beneficial Influence of Bodily Exercise, Change of Scene, Pure Air and Temporary Relaxation as Antidotes to the Wear and Tear of Education and AvocationHighley, 1831 - 300 páginas |
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... pleasure or improvement , and bring back the seeds of disease . The observations of a medical tra- veller , not inexperienced in the investigation of climatorial in- fluence on the human constitution , mental and corporeal , may prove ...
... pleasure or improvement , and bring back the seeds of disease . The observations of a medical tra- veller , not inexperienced in the investigation of climatorial in- fluence on the human constitution , mental and corporeal , may prove ...
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... Pleasures of Travel ( Rogers ) Rise and Fall of Italy - } ...... Irruption of the Barbarians over Alps and Apennines ... Museum of Natural History Wax - works - City of the Plague -Fossil Bones PIPER : 2 × ☎ ≈≈ ± 7 * 8 * 50 * 2 ¦ ¦ 1 ...
... Pleasures of Travel ( Rogers ) Rise and Fall of Italy - } ...... Irruption of the Barbarians over Alps and Apennines ... Museum of Natural History Wax - works - City of the Plague -Fossil Bones PIPER : 2 × ☎ ≈≈ ± 7 * 8 * 50 * 2 ¦ ¦ 1 ...
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... Pleasures of a Roman Dogana and ib . 181 midnight Water - spout .... of the Press .. Instrumental Music in Rome ..... Romans that were .... 220 .... .. 182 Romans that are .. 222 Galiffe's Character of the Romans .. ib . Roman Cicerone ...
... Pleasures of a Roman Dogana and ib . 181 midnight Water - spout .... of the Press .. Instrumental Music in Rome ..... Romans that were .... 220 .... .. 182 Romans that are .. 222 Galiffe's Character of the Romans .. ib . Roman Cicerone ...
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... Pleasures of a French Passage - boat , 252 Chalons to Paris .... ib . Continental Cookery . 247 Cannes , Frejus , Cloacina's Wor- ship in Provence .... : } 248 Bourbons the Cause of bad Roads .. 253 England with all its Faults ... 254 ...
... Pleasures of a French Passage - boat , 252 Chalons to Paris .... ib . Continental Cookery . 247 Cannes , Frejus , Cloacina's Wor- ship in Provence .... : } 248 Bourbons the Cause of bad Roads .. 253 England with all its Faults ... 254 ...
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... pleasure , were prominent features in the mental perspec- tive , and sanguine HOPE repelled every doubt of success ! for life itself was new , And the heart promised what the fancy drew . But when I mingled with the chafing " tide of ...
... pleasure , were prominent features in the mental perspec- tive , and sanguine HOPE repelled every doubt of success ! for life itself was new , And the heart promised what the fancy drew . But when I mingled with the chafing " tide of ...
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admiration Alps AMPHITHEATRE ancient animal Apennines arch ARCH OF TITUS atmosphere banks Baveno beautiful beneath body Bologna Cæsar Campagna Campagna di Roma Capitol carriage climate CLOACA MAXIMA CLOACINA contemplation countenance cretinism descended earth effects England English erected Eternal City Eustace excitement exhalations feelings fertile Florence France gallery Genoa gloomy goitre head Heaven hills holy human imagination impressions influence inhabitants intellectual invalid Italian Italy journey labour Lady Morgan lake less Lombardy magnificent malaria marble Milan miles mind modern moral mountains murder Naples nature neighbouring night objects palaces pass pellagra philosopher plains pleasure poet poison Pompeii present Radicofani river road rocks Roman Rome ruins scarcely scene scenery seen shew side sight Simplon sirocco skies snow soil streets summit surface temple THERMÆ thing thousand Tiber tion torrent tower town tramontane traveller valley Venus villages walls whole winds wonder
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Página 12 - He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Página 12 - tis true, this god did shake : His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried ' Give me some drink, Titinius,
Página 21 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Página 254 - Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee ; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Página 2 - Twas his the vast and trackless Deep to rove : Alternate change of Climates has he known, And felt the fierce extremes of either zone, Where polar Skies congeal th...
Página 44 - No, never shall I lose the trace Of what I've felt in this bright place. And, should my spirit's hope grow weak, Should I, oh God, e'er doubt thy power, This mighty scene again I'll seek, At the same calm and glowing hour, And here, at the sublimest shrine That Nature ever rear'd to Thee, Rekindle all that hope divine, And feel my immortality ! EXTRACT II.
Página 94 - It fills the mind with new ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues longest in action without being tired.
Página 94 - Now, in travelling we multiply events, and innocently. We set out, as it were, on our adventures ; and many are those that occur to us, morning, noon, and night. The day we come to a place which we have long heard and read off — as in Italy we do continually — it is an era in our lives ; and from that moment the very name calls up a picture.
Página 94 - Would he who sat in a corner of his library, poring over books and maps, learn more or so much in the time, as he who, with his eyes and his heart open, is receiving impressions all day long from the things themselves...
Página 61 - Hector first of Troy. As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's round fragment flies, with fury borne, (Which from the stubborn stone a torrent rends) Precipitate the pond'rous...