The Old world and the New; or, A journal of reflections and observations made on a tour in EuropeHarper & Brothers, 82 Cliff-Street., 1836 |
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Alps altars Ambleside America amid ancient Apennines appear beau ideal beautiful believe building built Carlo Dolci castle cathedral Catholic celebrated certainly chapel character Charles the Bold Christian church colour countenance dark Edinburgh Old Town Eiger England Europe fear feeling give glorious Haddon Hall hand heart heaven hills houses human immense Italy Jungfrau lake Lake Maggiore Lauterbrunnen living look Madonna manners marble mass Menai Bridge ment mighty miles mind moral morning mountain nature never noble objects observed paintings palace passed perhaps Peter's popular religion religious respect Roman Rome ruins scarcely scene scenery seat seems seen side society spot stand stone streets striking stupendous suppose Switzerland temple thing thought thousand Tiber tion to-day towers town traveller trees valley villages virtue visited walk walls Wengernalp whole Windsor Castle
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الصفحة 163 - One morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree ; Another came ; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he. ' The next with dirges due in sad array Slow thro' the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
الصفحة 163 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.
الصفحة 276 - Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart ; Go forth, under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings...
الصفحة 163 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown. Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own.
الصفحة 27 - Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.
الصفحة 105 - He remarked afterward that although he was known to the world only as a poet, he had given twelve hours' thought to the condition and prospects of society, for one to poetry.
الصفحة 355 - The most able men — from the East and the West, from the North and the South...
الصفحة 163 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
الصفحة 195 - It is either men's inconsiderateness, or the error of their thoughts, that is the cause of all their wickedness. " My people doth not consider." (Isa. i. 3.) Paul " verily thought that he ought to do many things against the name of Jesus.
الصفحة 69 - Colosseum is a mournful and desolate spectacle as seen from within — without, and especially on the side which is in best preservation, it is glorious. We passed around it; and, as we looked upward, the moon shining through its arches, from the opposite side, it appeared as if it were the coronet of the heavens, so vast was it — or like a glorious crown upon the brow of night.