A Tennessean Abroad: Or, Letters from Europe, Africa, and AsiaRedfield, 1854 - 398 pagina's |
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... Ruins of Tirynthus - Ruins of Argos - Ruins of Mycena - Ruins of Nemea - Corinth - Gulf of Lepanto ..... ..326 ... 330 .333 LETTER LVI . - Voyage from Corinth to Trieste - Patras - The Ionian Islands - Austrian Steamers - City of ...
... Ruins of Tirynthus - Ruins of Argos - Ruins of Mycena - Ruins of Nemea - Corinth - Gulf of Lepanto ..... ..326 ... 330 .333 LETTER LVI . - Voyage from Corinth to Trieste - Patras - The Ionian Islands - Austrian Steamers - City of ...
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... ruins and noble remnants of the grandeur of by- gone ages . Among the many interesting spots that give character to the neighborhood , Newstead Abbey is the most prominent , and particularly interesting to Americans , as they are ...
... ruins and noble remnants of the grandeur of by- gone ages . Among the many interesting spots that give character to the neighborhood , Newstead Abbey is the most prominent , and particularly interesting to Americans , as they are ...
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... ruins of a rustic mill , together with the gentle murmuring of the foaming falls , added to the richly wooded country around , served to complete a picture upon which memory , so long as " she holds her zeal , " will love to dwell ...
... ruins of a rustic mill , together with the gentle murmuring of the foaming falls , added to the richly wooded country around , served to complete a picture upon which memory , so long as " she holds her zeal , " will love to dwell ...
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... ruins and dignified in their disgrace , " I was inspired with thrilling emotions of the deepest awe and veneration . Imagination involun- tarily takes wing , and forcibly brings to remembrance the departed glory of all those mighty ...
... ruins and dignified in their disgrace , " I was inspired with thrilling emotions of the deepest awe and veneration . Imagination involun- tarily takes wing , and forcibly brings to remembrance the departed glory of all those mighty ...
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... ruins of the castle only serve to show what their splendor once was , and to impress upon the mind of the visitor the transitory value of the humble happiness of those who enjoy an humble home in virtuous contentment . ' " " From the ...
... ruins of the castle only serve to show what their splendor once was , and to impress upon the mind of the visitor the transitory value of the humble happiness of those who enjoy an humble home in virtuous contentment . ' " " From the ...
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A Tennessean Abroad: Or, Letters from Europe, Africa, and Asia Randal William McGavock Volledige weergave - 1854 |
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Pagina 253 - How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
Pagina 250 - And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.
Pagina 249 - And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails. And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
Pagina 323 - Islands of the Blest. The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the, sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Pagina 147 - 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.
Pagina 180 - And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round) With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal April to the ground Making it all one emerald: — how profound The gulf!
Pagina 109 - Secretary to the Royal Institution for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Scotland...
Pagina 135 - Away with these; true Wisdom's world will be Within its own creation, or in thine, Maternal Nature! for who teems like thee, Thus on the banks of thy majestic Rhine? There Harold gazes on a work divine, A blending of all beauties; streams and dells, Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, corn-field, mountain, vine, And chiefless castles breathing stern farewells From grey but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells.
Pagina 271 - Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, "Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.