Letters During a Tour Through Some Parts of France, Savoy, Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands in the Summer of 1817 |
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... effect of the scrutiny he was obliged to institute . The road from Dieppe to Rouen affords some pleasing views , and must interest the traveller , from the highly cultivated state of the country through which it passes . The soil of ...
... effect of the scrutiny he was obliged to institute . The road from Dieppe to Rouen affords some pleasing views , and must interest the traveller , from the highly cultivated state of the country through which it passes . The soil of ...
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... Pursuing our ramble through the city on Satur- day , and suddenly emerging from one of its dark and narrow streets , we burst in a moment upon the sublime and stupendous front of the cathedral . The effect ROUEN . 15.
... Pursuing our ramble through the city on Satur- day , and suddenly emerging from one of its dark and narrow streets , we burst in a moment upon the sublime and stupendous front of the cathedral . The effect ROUEN . 15.
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Thomas Raffles. sublime and stupendous front of the cathedral . The effect produced by the instantaneous and unexpected developement of so much magnificence , may be more easily conceived than described . We were rivetted for some ...
Thomas Raffles. sublime and stupendous front of the cathedral . The effect produced by the instantaneous and unexpected developement of so much magnificence , may be more easily conceived than described . We were rivetted for some ...
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... effect , when contemplated for the first time , and glowing amid the splendour of the setting sun . The grandeur of the buildings- number of the equipages - the variegated groups of people - the richness of the woods and gardens - the ...
... effect , when contemplated for the first time , and glowing amid the splendour of the setting sun . The grandeur of the buildings- number of the equipages - the variegated groups of people - the richness of the woods and gardens - the ...
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... effect of each object has been so much weakened by the ra- pidity with which it succeeded its predecessor — and the whole impression on the mind is so mingled and confused , that all you have heard , and seen PARIS . 27.
... effect of each object has been so much weakened by the ra- pidity with which it succeeded its predecessor — and the whole impression on the mind is so mingled and confused , that all you have heard , and seen PARIS . 27.
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Page 184 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 155 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
Page 136 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now...
Page 244 - Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Page 135 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 34 - The guards insisted. They raised their voices, and seemed to wish to call on others to assist them. " Perhaps this was the most terrible moment of this most dreadful morning. Another instant, and the best of Kings would have received from his rebellious subjects indignities too horrid to mention — indignities that would have been to him more insupportable than death. Such was the feeling expressed on his countenance. Turning towards me, he looked at me steadily, as if to ask my advice. Alas ! it...
Page 35 - I heard him pronounce distinctly these memorable words. — ' / die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge. I pardon those who have occasioned my death, and I pray to God that the blood you are now going to shed may never be visited on France.
Page 69 - Many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ; whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly ; whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.'1 I wish there were 1 Phil.
Page 33 - As soon as the king had left the carriage, three guards surrounded him, and would have taken off his clothes ; but he repulsed them with haughtiness : he undressed himself, untied his neckcloth, opened his shirt, and arranged it himself. The guards, whom the determined countenance of the king had for a moment disconcerted, seemed to recover their audacity. They surrounded him again, and would have seized his hands. " What are you attempting ?" said the king, drawing back his hands. " To bind you,
Page 78 - ... Paris, in some measure identified with them ; even the public amusements of the capital tend to the improvement of the mind, and the advance of civilization. The metropolis is naturally salubrious, and the purity of its atmosphere may be at once ascertained by viewing it from an elevated situation. How unlike the view from the top of St. Paul's in London, with its canopy of fogs and clouds, and its sickly sunbeams ! There, every building is blackened with smoke, and the eye looks down upon darkening...