Letters from Europe, the journal of a tour through Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Italy, and Switzerland, in 1825, '26, and '27, Volumul 1 |
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Pagina 12
... splendid colours , vying in richness and beau- ty with the most picturesque scenery of the earth above . Fancy may go a step farther , and people these bright abodes with the inhabitants of the deep , or those fabled divinities , whom ...
... splendid colours , vying in richness and beau- ty with the most picturesque scenery of the earth above . Fancy may go a step farther , and people these bright abodes with the inhabitants of the deep , or those fabled divinities , whom ...
Pagina 13
... splendid , when contrasted with the darkness of the east , where there are no objects to reflect the beams of day , after the sun has reached the verge of the horizon , owing to the sphericity of the ocean . His disc appears to be ...
... splendid , when contrasted with the darkness of the east , where there are no objects to reflect the beams of day , after the sun has reached the verge of the horizon , owing to the sphericity of the ocean . His disc appears to be ...
Pagina 21
... splendid . The little we saw afforded us a favorable spe- cimen of the hospitality of the better classes towards strangers . They took much trouble to point out to us whatever was worth seeing , and to trace the history of the town ...
... splendid . The little we saw afforded us a favorable spe- cimen of the hospitality of the better classes towards strangers . They took much trouble to point out to us whatever was worth seeing , and to trace the history of the town ...
Pagina 35
... splendid apartment , with furniture of the most dazzling description : the cow moved on , and the house - wife pursued with her pail : another cloister was chan- ged to a repository of gold and precious stones : in an instant , the ...
... splendid apartment , with furniture of the most dazzling description : the cow moved on , and the house - wife pursued with her pail : another cloister was chan- ged to a repository of gold and precious stones : in an instant , the ...
Pagina 42
... splendid avenue , lined with ranges of lofty structures , and adorned with a stately monument in memory of Lord Nelson . The post - office is one of the largest and most commodious establishments of the kind I have ever seen . In ...
... splendid avenue , lined with ranges of lofty structures , and adorned with a stately monument in memory of Lord Nelson . The post - office is one of the largest and most commodious establishments of the kind I have ever seen . In ...
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Termeni și expresii frecvente
Abbey afforded Ambleside amusement antique appearance arches architecture arrived Arthur's Seat banks battle of Culloden beautiful boat bridge buildings Calton Hill Castle celebrated charming church cliffs coach Crag curiosity declivity descending distance Duke edifice Edinburgh eminence England erected extending favourable Furness Fell garden Gothic Great-Britain green half hall handsome height Highland hills hour hundred feet interesting Inverness Irish sea Keswick kind ladies lake LETTER Liverpool Loch Loch Linnhe Loch Lochy Loch Lomond lofty manufacture Marseilles ment miles monument Moray Firth morning mountains neat New-York night o'clock objects occupied ornaments Paris passed passengers picturesque poet present residence ride rising river road rocks romantic round ruins Rydal Water scene scenery Scotland seat seen shore side situated Skiddaw splendid stands stone stream streets summit taste tion tower town trees Ullswater vale village walk walls whole winds woods
Pasaje populare
Pagina 10 - All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes,) reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.
Pagina 143 - O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity...
Pagina 370 - Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Pagina 153 - Hucknall is the following inscription: — IN THE VAULT BENEATH, WHERE MANY OF HIS ANCESTORS AND HIS MOTHER ARE BURIED, LIE THE REMAINS OF GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON, LORD BYRON, OF ROCHDALE, IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER, THE AUTHOR OF "CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE.
Pagina 518 - O'er dust ! a charity their dogs enjoy. What could I do? what succour? what resource? With pious sacrilege, a grave I stole ; With impious piety, that grave I wrong'd ; Short in my duty ; coward in my grief! More like her murderer, than friend, I crept, With soft-suspended step, and, muffled deep In midnight darkness, whisper'd my last sigh. I whisper'd what should echo through their realms ; Nor writ her name, whose tomb should pierce the skies.
Pagina 249 - No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, ' No storied urn nor animated bust ;' This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust.
Pagina 272 - Others embarked on board a ship on the coast of Buchan, and were conveyed to Norway, from whence they travelled to Sweden. In the month of May, the duke of Cumberland advanced with the army into the Highlands, as far as Fort Augustus, where he encamped; and sent off detachments on all hands, to hunt down the fugitives, and lay waste the country with fire and sword.
Pagina 422 - Ninora-Tal. which is about half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth when full, but less than half of that width in the dry season.
Pagina 271 - But the third said ; All haile Makbeth that heereafter shalt be king of Scotland. ' Then Banquho ; What manner of women (saith he) are you, that seeme so little favourable unto me, whereas to my fellow heere besides high offices, ye assigne also the kingdome, appointing foorth nothing for me at all ? Yes...
Pagina 271 - ... when suddenly in the middest of a laund, there met them three women in strange and wild apparel, resembling creatures of elder world, whom when they attentively beheld, wondering much at the sight, the first of them spake and said : — ' All hail Makbeth, thane of Glammis...