A Buckeye Abroad: Or, Wanderings in Europe, and in the OrientMoore, Anderson & Company, 1854 - 444 pagina's |
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Pagina 29
... trees about it ; extending nearly nineteen hundred feet , and running back one - fourth of that distance ; with its six thousand iron col- umns , painted blue , red and white , in grateful variety ; cover- ing nearly thirty acres in a ...
... trees about it ; extending nearly nineteen hundred feet , and running back one - fourth of that distance ; with its six thousand iron col- umns , painted blue , red and white , in grateful variety ; cover- ing nearly thirty acres in a ...
Pagina 31
... trees from Madagascar , and overshadowing foliage with flowers , The growing wonder takes a thousand shapes Capricious , in which Fancy seeks in vain The likeness of some object seen before . To Thus has British Art worked as if to mock ...
... trees from Madagascar , and overshadowing foliage with flowers , The growing wonder takes a thousand shapes Capricious , in which Fancy seeks in vain The likeness of some object seen before . To Thus has British Art worked as if to mock ...
Pagina 32
... trees at either end of the transept . Another caution - do not let your senses be ravished by the organ and harps which , from the galleries , have broken forth into melody , vibrating , strangely mild and sweet against and along the ...
... trees at either end of the transept . Another caution - do not let your senses be ravished by the organ and harps which , from the galleries , have broken forth into melody , vibrating , strangely mild and sweet against and along the ...
Pagina 39
... trees before and behind you— temples and booths , flags , organs , and segments of churches - not severally ( for ... Tree of Liberty ! The eye would fain close on the scene and commit AND A ROYAL CHASE . 39.
... trees before and behind you— temples and booths , flags , organs , and segments of churches - not severally ( for ... Tree of Liberty ! The eye would fain close on the scene and commit AND A ROYAL CHASE . 39.
Pagina 40
... trees , Hindoo rooms , statuary , and every thing else conceivable in the world . It was a theatrical how in every deed - a dashing splendor ! 1 What can it mean ? My head goes out inquiringly . I see hats going off on both sides ...
... trees , Hindoo rooms , statuary , and every thing else conceivable in the world . It was a theatrical how in every deed - a dashing splendor ! 1 What can it mean ? My head goes out inquiringly . I see hats going off on both sides ...
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Acropolis adorned Alps American amid amidst ancient arches Athens Austria beauty boat Bosphorus castle 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 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.