Letters During a Tour Through Some Parts of France, Savoy, Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands in the Summer of 1817T. Taylor, 1819 - 336 من الصفحات |
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... beautiful women any where as in Dieppe ; and the neatness of their dress is beyond all praise . Their high caps of white linen , white as the driven snow - their cheerful and good - humoured countenances , and the native elegance and ...
... beautiful women any where as in Dieppe ; and the neatness of their dress is beyond all praise . Their high caps of white linen , white as the driven snow - their cheerful and good - humoured countenances , and the native elegance and ...
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... beautiful object . They were in their infancy it is true - the plants were young , and they will attain a greater height and luxuriance . But they never suffer them to grow many feet from the ground , but bend them over from stick to ...
... beautiful object . They were in their infancy it is true - the plants were young , and they will attain a greater height and luxuriance . But they never suffer them to grow many feet from the ground , but bend them over from stick to ...
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... beautiful build 、 ings he had designed , all his plans were finally re- jected - while the honour of completing this great national edifice was reserved for Claude Perrault , who , though bred as a physician , excelled as an architect ...
... beautiful build 、 ings he had designed , all his plans were finally re- jected - while the honour of completing this great national edifice was reserved for Claude Perrault , who , though bred as a physician , excelled as an architect ...
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... beautiful woods of the Champs - Elysées , in which the prospect * The Abbé Edgeworth was the son of an Irish gentleman , who became a convert to the Roman Catholic religion , and settled , with a part of his family , at Thoulouse . The ...
... beautiful woods of the Champs - Elysées , in which the prospect * The Abbé Edgeworth was the son of an Irish gentleman , who became a convert to the Roman Catholic religion , and settled , with a part of his family , at Thoulouse . The ...
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... beautiful of all the palaces in Paris . I shall not weary you with its description - suffice it to say- that it is distinguished by the boldness of its design , and the symmetry of its proportions - more uniform than the Tuileries , and ...
... beautiful of all the palaces in Paris . I shall not weary you with its description - suffice it to say- that it is distinguished by the boldness of its design , and the symmetry of its proportions - more uniform than the Tuileries , and ...
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Alps altar amongst appearance Arve ascended Auxonne beautiful beneath Buonaparte carriage cathedral celebrated Champagnole Charlemagne chiefly church circumstance dark DEAR deep delightful Dieppe Dijon Duke eau de vie edifice elegance elevation English entered extremely feel feet forest France French gallery gardens Geneva glacier grand grandeur hills honour houses hundred immense inhabitants interesting Jura king lake Lausanne leaving LETTER look Louis Louis XV Louvre magnificent majestic Martigny Mentz Mer de Glace miles mind monarch Mont Blanc monuments morning mountains ness object observed paintings palace Palais Royal Paris party passed perhaps present religion remarkably repose Rhine rich rising river road rocks Rouen royal sabbath scene scenery seemed seen Servoz side snow spacious spire splendour spot streets sublime summit surrounded tains thing thousand tion town travellers Tuileries vale of Chamouni valley vast Vaud village whole woods Your's
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الصفحة 184 - 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.
الصفحة 155 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
الصفحة 136 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now...
الصفحة 244 - Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
الصفحة 135 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
الصفحة 34 - The guards insisted. They raised their voices, and seemed to wish to call on others to assist them. " Perhaps this was the most terrible moment of this most dreadful morning. Another instant, and the best of Kings would have received from his rebellious subjects indignities too horrid to mention — indignities that would have been to him more insupportable than death. Such was the feeling expressed on his countenance. Turning towards me, he looked at me steadily, as if to ask my advice. Alas ! it...
الصفحة 35 - I heard him pronounce distinctly these memorable words. — ' / die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge. I pardon those who have occasioned my death, and I pray to God that the blood you are now going to shed may never be visited on France.
الصفحة 69 - Many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ; whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly ; whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.'1 I wish there were 1 Phil.
الصفحة 33 - As soon as the king had left the carriage, three guards surrounded him, and would have taken off his clothes ; but he repulsed them with haughtiness : he undressed himself, untied his neckcloth, opened his shirt, and arranged it himself. The guards, whom the determined countenance of the king had for a moment disconcerted, seemed to recover their audacity. They surrounded him again, and would have seized his hands. " What are you attempting ?" said the king, drawing back his hands. " To bind you,
الصفحة 78 - ... Paris, in some measure identified with them ; even the public amusements of the capital tend to the improvement of the mind, and the advance of civilization. The metropolis is naturally salubrious, and the purity of its atmosphere may be at once ascertained by viewing it from an elevated situation. How unlike the view from the top of St. Paul's in London, with its canopy of fogs and clouds, and its sickly sunbeams ! There, every building is blackened with smoke, and the eye looks down upon darkening...