A Buckeye Abroad: Or, Wanderings in Europe, and in the OrientG. P. Putnam, 1852 - 444 pagina's |
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Pagina 21
... Queen was fabled to have come from the bosom of the sea ! He likens it to creation's common ( a purely Anglo - Saxon metaphor ) , which no human power can parcel or inclose . This idea is akin to that of MADAME DE STAEL , which Byron ...
... Queen was fabled to have come from the bosom of the sea ! He likens it to creation's common ( a purely Anglo - Saxon metaphor ) , which no human power can parcel or inclose . This idea is akin to that of MADAME DE STAEL , which Byron ...
Pagina 30
... Queen - that Northern wonder which Cowper illumined with his fancy , -built without forest or quarry , whose marble was the glassy wave , whose cement was water , and which , when lighted within , gleamed a clear transpa- rency ...
... Queen - that Northern wonder which Cowper illumined with his fancy , -built without forest or quarry , whose marble was the glassy wave , whose cement was water , and which , when lighted within , gleamed a clear transpa- rency ...
Pagina 31
... Queen's contribution , and standing near the fountain on the right , deserves high honor in the cata- logue . We have you at the fountain . Before you , gush and bubble two other fountains , interspersed with tropical plants and every ...
... Queen's contribution , and standing near the fountain on the right , deserves high honor in the cata- logue . We have you at the fountain . Before you , gush and bubble two other fountains , interspersed with tropical plants and every ...
Pagina 36
... Queen , surrounded by masses of foliage , natural flowers and birds ; on the rocker beneath , is seen the head of Night , represented as a beautiful sleeping female , crowned with a garland of poppies , supported upon bats ' wings , and ...
... Queen , surrounded by masses of foliage , natural flowers and birds ; on the rocker beneath , is seen the head of Night , represented as a beautiful sleeping female , crowned with a garland of poppies , supported upon bats ' wings , and ...
Pagina 40
... Queen ; as , happily , Queens are such rare birds in our land . Let no harsh Republican mis- take the motive which prompted the exploit , which issued in a full view of royalty . We left the Crystal Palace , about six P. M. Our minds ...
... Queen ; as , happily , Queens are such rare birds in our land . Let no harsh Republican mis- take the motive which prompted the exploit , which issued in a full view of royalty . We left the Crystal Palace , about six P. M. Our minds ...
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A Buckeye Abroad: Or, Wanderings in Europe, and in the Orient Samuel Sullivan Cox Volledige weergave - 1860 |
Buckeye Abroad: Or, Wanderings in Europe and in the Orient Samuel Sullivan Cox Volledige weergave - 1859 |
A Buckeye Abroad: Or, Wanderings in Europe, and in the Orient Samuel Sullivan Cox Volledige weergave - 1852 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Acropolis adorned American amid amidst ancient arches Athens Austria beauty boat Bosphorus castle Chatsworth church columns Constantinople Corfu crowd Crystal Palace dome dressed earth elegant England English feet flowers Fountain Abbey France French gallery gardens genius Genoa glacier glittering glory golden Gothic grace Greece green heart heaven hills human immense isles Italy ladies land light lofty Lombardy look marble miles mind Mont Blanc monument mountain Naples Napoleon nature noble painting palace passed Peter's Pireus Pompeii prison Protestantism Prussia Queen repose rise rocks Rome ruins scene seems seen shadow shore side Smyrna soldiers soul spirit splendid spot stand steamer stone strange streets sublimity Sultan surrounded sweet Tarpeian Rock temple thing thousand tion tomb towers trees vale valley Venice walk walls wonder
Populaire passages
Pagina 413 - The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, "Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
Pagina 144 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Pagina 210 - The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse; Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires
Pagina 370 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident May come refined with th
Pagina 388 - Witty above her sexe, but that's not all, Wise to Salvation was good Mistris Hall, Something of Shakespeare was in that, but this Wholy of him with whom she's now in blisse. Then, Passenger, ha'st ne're a teare, To weep with her that wept with all ? That wept yet set herself to chere Them up with comforts cordiall.
Pagina 254 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light!
Pagina 203 - God that made the world, and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands...
Pagina 433 - When all is done (he concludes), human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with, and humoured a little, to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Pagina 386 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow; and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble with too much conceiving ; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die.
Pagina 382 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine...