Letters During a Tour Through Some Parts of France, Savoy, Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands in the Summer of 1817 |
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... river Seine , over which there is a bridge of boats that rises and falls with the tide . This bridge being esteemed a curi- osity , of course we went to see it ; but it by no means equalled our expectation as to its appearance . Its ...
... river Seine , over which there is a bridge of boats that rises and falls with the tide . This bridge being esteemed a curi- osity , of course we went to see it ; but it by no means equalled our expectation as to its appearance . Its ...
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... river ; and scarcely a morning dawns that does not add to the disgusting group , and bring some broken - hearted parent to recognize the lifeless body of a lost and ruined child ! The quantity of vice in Paris is , indeed , immense ...
... river ; and scarcely a morning dawns that does not add to the disgusting group , and bring some broken - hearted parent to recognize the lifeless body of a lost and ruined child ! The quantity of vice in Paris is , indeed , immense ...
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... river which flows past that town to Lyons . At this place I furnished myself with a straw hat , such as is usually worn by the people of the country , my own being almost insupportable amid the burning heat to which I was constantly ...
... river which flows past that town to Lyons . At this place I furnished myself with a straw hat , such as is usually worn by the people of the country , my own being almost insupportable amid the burning heat to which I was constantly ...
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... rivers roll side by side , in the same bed , without mingling their waters . At length , however , yield- ing to the destiny that has made them one , they embrace and blend with each other ; the distinction is quickly lost , and the ...
... rivers roll side by side , in the same bed , without mingling their waters . At length , however , yield- ing to the destiny that has made them one , they embrace and blend with each other ; the distinction is quickly lost , and the ...
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... river , from which the surrounding scenery is viewed to great advantage . The Môle rises ab- ruptly , on the right , to the elevation of 4500 feet from its base ; and on the left , Mont Brezon , to nearly the same altitude . The former ...
... river , from which the surrounding scenery is viewed to great advantage . The Môle rises ab- ruptly , on the right , to the elevation of 4500 feet from its base ; and on the left , Mont Brezon , to nearly the same altitude . The former ...
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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...