A Buckeye Abroad: Or, Wanderings in Europe, and in the OrientMoore, Anderson & Company, 1854 - 444 pagina's |
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Pagina 15
... strange meeting of the steamers in mid - ocean . We ran along side of her , only distant one half mile . We salut- ed with cannon , and she returned it gallantly . How finely she dashed the waves from her black prow ! What a thing of ...
... strange meeting of the steamers in mid - ocean . We ran along side of her , only distant one half mile . We salut- ed with cannon , and she returned it gallantly . How finely she dashed the waves from her black prow ! What a thing of ...
Pagina 32
... strange array of glass is that beyond ? What lenticular arrangements could produce half the effect ? What is their use ? They are model light - houses , revolving and breaking and casting out the light , not for the view of beauty , but ...
... strange array of glass is that beyond ? What lenticular arrangements could produce half the effect ? What is their use ? They are model light - houses , revolving and breaking and casting out the light , not for the view of beauty , but ...
Pagina 34
... strange - shaped diamond - and - gold crowns of Hindoo Kings and other tributes from the proud sheiks of the land which Alexander and Bonaparte could not comprehend in their conquests , however much they dreamed of the glory , 34 THE ...
... strange - shaped diamond - and - gold crowns of Hindoo Kings and other tributes from the proud sheiks of the land which Alexander and Bonaparte could not comprehend in their conquests , however much they dreamed of the glory , 34 THE ...
Pagina 37
... strange medley ! Before we leave this end of the building , which we do under oriental umbrellas with long silver handles , it would be well , simply to glance at those ox - horns eight feet from point to point , from Good Hope ; those ...
... strange medley ! Before we leave this end of the building , which we do under oriental umbrellas with long silver handles , it would be well , simply to glance at those ox - horns eight feet from point to point , from Good Hope ; those ...
Pagina 42
... strange that the painters upon the building opposite , do not start or tumble down , at the unearthly whoops , groans , yells , and yawns below them , which announce the vender of something . I could only distinguish one vegetable in ...
... strange that the painters upon the building opposite , do not start or tumble down , at the unearthly whoops , groans , yells , and yawns below them , which announce the vender of something . I could only distinguish one vegetable in ...
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American amid amidst ancient appearance arches beauty boat called castle church columns crowd dark deep dressed earth elegant England English enter feet fine fire flowers France French gardens genius give glory grace green ground hand head heart heaven hills hour human hundred idea isles Italy kind ladies land leave light living look marble miles mind mountain moving nature never object once painting palace passed play present reach rich rise road rocks Rome ruins scene seat seems seen shore side soldiers soon soul spirit splendid stand statues stone strange streets surrounded temple thing thought thousand tion tomb towers traveller trees turn 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.