A Buckeye Abroad: Or, Wanderings in Europe, and in the OrientMoore, Anderson & Company, 1854 - 444 pagina's |
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Pagina 10
... standing upon the shores of the old world , with its scenes of renowned enchantment and heroic deeds , with its very dust golden with historic memory ! It is well to be shut out , as if by a wall of brass , from old and familiar things ...
... standing upon the shores of the old world , with its scenes of renowned enchantment and heroic deeds , with its very dust golden with historic memory ! It is well to be shut out , as if by a wall of brass , from old and familiar things ...
Pagina 18
... stand out in definite outline . Light - houses and mansions attest the presence of a superior civilization . How many thronging associations fit through the mind , as I recall , that here , not in fancy's eye , but in reality , stands ...
... stand out in definite outline . Light - houses and mansions attest the presence of a superior civilization . How many thronging associations fit through the mind , as I recall , that here , not in fancy's eye , but in reality , stands ...
Pagina 20
... stand . The rocks impress one strangely , not alone be- cause they form an outline of the isle of our ancestors , but ( we must own it ) because that isle affords our poor physical frames a steady foothold , and an uninterrupted ...
... stand . The rocks impress one strangely , not alone be- cause they form an outline of the isle of our ancestors , but ( we must own it ) because that isle affords our poor physical frames a steady foothold , and an uninterrupted ...
Pagina 26
... standing the marriage of Church and State - which cannot be too much abominated - have emanated those salutary influences which are illustrated by the surrounding practical works . From these chapels , honored by a LATIMER , a JEREMY ...
... standing the marriage of Church and State - which cannot be too much abominated - have emanated those salutary influences which are illustrated by the surrounding practical works . From these chapels , honored by a LATIMER , a JEREMY ...
Pagina 30
... stands no ice - frolic of haughty power ; but a glowing enshrine- ment for the objects of mingled beauty and utility , which Thought has produced in every clime . It is no pyramidal monument to Pride , no classic temple for Beauty to ...
... stands no ice - frolic of haughty power ; but a glowing enshrine- ment for the objects of mingled beauty and utility , which Thought has produced in every clime . It is no pyramidal monument to Pride , no classic temple for Beauty to ...
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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 isle 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 Isles of Greece THE isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The...
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...
Pagina 299 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.