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Pagina viii
... Tomb of Virgil - Peculiarities of the City- Campo Santo - Excursions to Baiæ , Paestum , Vesuvius , Pompeii , and Herculaneum- The Neapolitan Government , etc ..... 198 · LETTER XXXVII . - Departure from Europe - The viii CONTENTS .
... Tomb of Virgil - Peculiarities of the City- Campo Santo - Excursions to Baiæ , Paestum , Vesuvius , Pompeii , and Herculaneum- The Neapolitan Government , etc ..... 198 · LETTER XXXVII . - Departure from Europe - The viii CONTENTS .
Pagina ix
... Tombs of Zechariah , of Jehoshaphat , and of Absalom - Garden of Gethsemane - Tomb of Virgin Mary -- Grottoes on Mount of Olives - View of the City - Sepulchres of the Kings - Grotto of Jeremiah , etc ... 262 LETTER XLV . - Bethany ...
... Tombs of Zechariah , of Jehoshaphat , and of Absalom - Garden of Gethsemane - Tomb of Virgin Mary -- Grottoes on Mount of Olives - View of the City - Sepulchres of the Kings - Grotto of Jeremiah , etc ... 262 LETTER XLV . - Bethany ...
Pagina x
... Tomb of Themistocles - Islands of Egina , Hydra , and Spez- zia - Gulf of Nauplia - Fortress of Palamede - Itch Kali - The Lion Monument - Ruins of Tirynthus - Ruins of Argos - Ruins of Mycena - Ruins of Nemea - Corinth - Gulf of ...
... Tomb of Themistocles - Islands of Egina , Hydra , and Spez- zia - Gulf of Nauplia - Fortress of Palamede - Itch Kali - The Lion Monument - Ruins of Tirynthus - Ruins of Argos - Ruins of Mycena - Ruins of Nemea - Corinth - Gulf of ...
Pagina 27
... tombs in the ceme- tery , but most of them are very inferior . I was told while there by the sexton that twenty thousand persons had been interred within this small place , which seems almost incredible . The hotels here are called ...
... tombs in the ceme- tery , but most of them are very inferior . I was told while there by the sexton that twenty thousand persons had been interred within this small place , which seems almost incredible . The hotels here are called ...
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... tomb , Whose pensive shades around thy ruins glide ; Hail to thy pile ! more honor'd in the fall Than modern mansions in their pillar'd state : Proudly majestic frowns thy vaulted hall , Scowling defiance on the blasts of Fate ...
... tomb , Whose pensive shades around thy ruins glide ; Hail to thy pile ! more honor'd in the fall Than modern mansions in their pillar'd state : Proudly majestic frowns thy vaulted hall , Scowling defiance on the blasts of Fate ...
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A Tennessean Abroad: Or, Letters from Europe, Africa, and Asia Randal William McGavock Volledige weergave - 1854 |
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Populaire passages
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.