Over the Ocean: Or Glimpses of Travel in Many LandsPaine & Burgess, 1846 - 372 pagini |
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... appearance of antiquity that strikes you here , and of the strength and soli- dity of every thing on this side of the Atlantic , you can form no idea without seeing . Even the bridges of the streets passing over the railroad , seem to ...
... appearance of antiquity that strikes you here , and of the strength and soli- dity of every thing on this side of the Atlantic , you can form no idea without seeing . Even the bridges of the streets passing over the railroad , seem to ...
Pagina 9
... appearance of antiquity than any thing I have yet seen . The steps of the different en- trances are worn in the centre at least half a foot from their original depth , and a large figure of the Lion and Unicorn on either side of a niche ...
... appearance of antiquity than any thing I have yet seen . The steps of the different en- trances are worn in the centre at least half a foot from their original depth , and a large figure of the Lion and Unicorn on either side of a niche ...
Pagina 17
... appearance of high boxes piled on each other . The roads and streets throughout England are all Macadamized as smooth as a floor , and the coaches roll over them at the rate of ten miles an hour . The street in which we are , at New ...
... appearance of high boxes piled on each other . The roads and streets throughout England are all Macadamized as smooth as a floor , and the coaches roll over them at the rate of ten miles an hour . The street in which we are , at New ...
Pagina 33
... appearance . Fifty thousand in a flock , we were told , was not an unusual thing . We saw many shepherds with their plaid scarfs and caps , crooks and dogs ; and peat fields in great extent , with the turf cut up in squares , like brick ...
... appearance . Fifty thousand in a flock , we were told , was not an unusual thing . We saw many shepherds with their plaid scarfs and caps , crooks and dogs ; and peat fields in great extent , with the turf cut up in squares , like brick ...
Pagina 35
... appearances do indicate that once a line of similar formation of column , a rock did indeed extend across from Ireland to Scotland . You perceive the same identical pointed columns , we were told , on the opposite sides of a small ...
... appearances do indicate that once a line of similar formation of column , a rock did indeed extend across from Ireland to Scotland . You perceive the same identical pointed columns , we were told , on the opposite sides of a small ...
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Pagina 240 - ARCHES on arches! as it were that Rome, Collecting the chief trophies of her line, Would build up all her triumphs in one dome, Her Coliseum stands; the moonbeams shine As...
Pagina 267 - And shadows forth its glory. There is given Unto the things of earth, which Time hath bent, A spirit's feeling, and where he hath leant His hand, but broke his scythe, there is a power And magic in the ruin'd battlement, For which the palace of the present hour Must yield its pomp, and wait till ages are its dower.
Pagina 312 - A ray of heavenly light, gilding all forms Terrestrial in the vast and the minute; The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, .. . " And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds.
Pagina 161 - Farewell, monsieur traveller : Look, you lisp, and wear strange suits; disable all the benefits of your own country ; be out of love with your nativity, and almost chide God for making you that countenance you are ; or I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola.
Pagina 164 - Out upon Time ! who for ever will leave But enough of the past for the future to grieve O'er that which hath been, and o'er that which must be : What we have seen, our sons shall see ; Remnants of things that have...
Pagina 229 - But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone — with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook His former city, what could be, Of earthly structures, in His honour piled, Of a sublimer aspect? Majesty, Power, Glory, Strength, and Beauty, all are aisled In this eternal ark of worship undefiled.
Pagina 230 - Enter: its grandeur overwhelms thee not; And why ? It is not lessened ; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal, and can only find A fit abode wherein appear enshrined Thy hopes of immortality; and thou Shalt one day, if found worthy, so defined, See thy God face to face, as thou dost now His holy of holies, nor be blasted by his brow.
Pagina 28 - ... livelier light, And mountains that like giants stand To sentinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Benvenue Down...
Pagina 339 - There must be nothing like it in the heavens above nor in the earth beneath nor in the waters under the earth ; and in many cases there is not.
Pagina 324 - The sacred tapers' lights are gone, Grey moss has clad the altar stone, The holy image is o'erthrown, The bell has ceased to toll. The long ribb'd aisles are burst and shrunk, The holy shrines to ruin sunk, Departed is the pious monk, God's blessing on his soul ! Rediviva.