Protestant vigils; or, Evening records of a journey in Italy, in ... 1826 and 1827 |
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... turned up all round , with plaited black ribbon , sixteen or seventeen yards , forming a singular serpentine edge , and it was trimmed round the crown with pink ribbon . It appears generally worn by the inhabitants of Sion and Brigg ...
... turned up all round , with plaited black ribbon , sixteen or seventeen yards , forming a singular serpentine edge , and it was trimmed round the crown with pink ribbon . It appears generally worn by the inhabitants of Sion and Brigg ...
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... turned upon a region all rock and barrenness , and snow and ice . It was exceedingly cold , and just when we had thought , here man cannot dwell , we came upon the ruins of an ancient convent and its campanile , and a second 6 SIMPLON ...
... turned upon a region all rock and barrenness , and snow and ice . It was exceedingly cold , and just when we had thought , here man cannot dwell , we came upon the ruins of an ancient convent and its campanile , and a second 6 SIMPLON ...
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... turned into the gallery of Gondo , said to be cut out of solid granite , six hundred feet long ; two large openings in its roof admit the light of day . Emerging from this gallery , the sound again stuns your ear , and , on your right ...
... turned into the gallery of Gondo , said to be cut out of solid granite , six hundred feet long ; two large openings in its roof admit the light of day . Emerging from this gallery , the sound again stuns your ear , and , on your right ...
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... Turning round a fine height , the debris of a whole mountain lay in wild confusion before us : the road had been ... turned with a sharp angle to the right , quitting the Val Vedro for the wide , well - watered valley of the Toccia ...
... Turning round a fine height , the debris of a whole mountain lay in wild confusion before us : the road had been ... turned with a sharp angle to the right , quitting the Val Vedro for the wide , well - watered valley of the Toccia ...
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... Turning to the right , round the wall of his castle , we soon reached the Ticino , and got into the ferry . A blind Italian musical beggar jumped into the boat , and almost made the horses jump over its side by his Orphean strains . On ...
... Turning to the right , round the wall of his castle , we soon reached the Ticino , and got into the ferry . A blind Italian musical beggar jumped into the boat , and almost made the horses jump over its side by his Orphean strains . On ...
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Popular passages
Page 66 - He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it ; and he called it Nehushtan.
Page 215 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 93 - If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God, which he hath testified of his Son.
Page 138 - and that was far away. He recked not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Daci.an mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday! — All this rushed with his blood. — Shall he expire And unavenged? — Arise, ye Goths, and glut your ire!
Page 65 - I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book. If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book : And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city and from the things which are written in this book.
Page 167 - And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Page 111 - That the mighty Pan Was kindly come to live with them below ; Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.
Page 216 - For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened : not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Page 164 - This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it ; because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
Page 138 - I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.