Souvenirs of a summer in Germany in 1836 [by M.F. Dickson].1837 |
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... German Bows - Reflections on Travelling - Old Christiani 261 CHAPTER XIV . Visit to the school - house - Schlangenbad - Departure from Schwalbach 277 xii CHAPTER XV . Frankfort Hotel de Russie - Rothschild's CONTENTS . xi.
... German Bows - Reflections on Travelling - Old Christiani 261 CHAPTER XIV . Visit to the school - house - Schlangenbad - Departure from Schwalbach 277 xii CHAPTER XV . Frankfort Hotel de Russie - Rothschild's CONTENTS . xi.
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... Russie - Rothschild's house— - Excursion to Wilhelmsbad - My neighbours 294 CHAPTER XVI . Frankfort to Fulda - German roads - Thuringian forest -Eisenach - Luther 317 SOUVENIRS OF A SUMMER IN GERMANY . CHAPTER I. Landing CONTENTS .
... Russie - Rothschild's house— - Excursion to Wilhelmsbad - My neighbours 294 CHAPTER XVI . Frankfort to Fulda - German roads - Thuringian forest -Eisenach - Luther 317 SOUVENIRS OF A SUMMER IN GERMANY . CHAPTER I. Landing CONTENTS .
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... German goodness in their faces and manner . Prince Albert is taller than his brother , and very prepossessing ; his hand- some face , besides the kind expression which is common to both brothers , being brightened with the greatest ...
... German goodness in their faces and manner . Prince Albert is taller than his brother , and very prepossessing ; his hand- some face , besides the kind expression which is common to both brothers , being brightened with the greatest ...
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... German , Pole , or American ; and , to clear up this difficulty , you listen sharply for the first word that issues from his lips , and try to find out whether he calls to the garçon for more bread in good German , broken French , or ...
... German , Pole , or American ; and , to clear up this difficulty , you listen sharply for the first word that issues from his lips , and try to find out whether he calls to the garçon for more bread in good German , broken French , or ...
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... German carriages of every size and shape , kept arriving all day , with crowds of people from Liège and the environs to take the baths . The table d'hôte was a large one , and , strange to say , we three were the only English in the ...
... German carriages of every size and shape , kept arriving all day , with crowds of people from Liège and the environs to take the baths . The table d'hôte was a large one , and , strange to say , we three were the only English in the ...
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Page 290 - As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu ! adieu ! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades : Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: — do I wake or sleep?
Page 279 - My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord : my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God.
Page 73 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, From doing thy pleasure on my holy day ; And call the sabbath a delight, The holy of the Lord, honourable; And shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, Nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord...
Page 93 - The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne ; But tell me, nymphs ! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine ? ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTURE FROM THE SAME CITY.
Page 209 - And they shall come from the east and from the west, and from the north and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Page 296 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee : nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Page 54 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Page 280 - I will pay my vows unto the Lord, in the sight of all his people : in the courts of the Lord's house, even in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem.
Page 279 - Where is thy God? 4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a nuil ti tude that kept hoh/day.
Page 296 - If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?