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... century in Europe , and through the father's side , from the Italian D'Estes and Bavarian Guelphs , on the mother's side from the Saxon Billungs . Of his vast kingdom , which comprehended all Saxony and Bavaria , a very small portion ...
... century in Europe , and through the father's side , from the Italian D'Estes and Bavarian Guelphs , on the mother's side from the Saxon Billungs . Of his vast kingdom , which comprehended all Saxony and Bavaria , a very small portion ...
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... century . The Gulf of Dollart , in the province of Gro- ningen , was the result of the inundation of 1277 , which swallowed up 44 villages . Similar calamities have several times produced the same effects in that province . Even so late ...
... century . The Gulf of Dollart , in the province of Gro- ningen , was the result of the inundation of 1277 , which swallowed up 44 villages . Similar calamities have several times produced the same effects in that province . Even so late ...
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... century . The Gulf of Dollart , in the province of Gro- ningen , was the result of the inundation of 1277 , which swallowed up 44 villages . Similar calamities have several times produced the same effects in that province . Even so late ...
... century . The Gulf of Dollart , in the province of Gro- ningen , was the result of the inundation of 1277 , which swallowed up 44 villages . Similar calamities have several times produced the same effects in that province . Even so late ...
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... century , and an Episcopalian . The Scotch Presbyterian church is on the Schotsche Dyk . The water of the Meuse , which is drunk here , will cause considerable an- noyance to persons unaccustomed to Trekschuiten ( § . 5. ) start nearly ...
... century , and an Episcopalian . The Scotch Presbyterian church is on the Schotsche Dyk . The water of the Meuse , which is drunk here , will cause considerable an- noyance to persons unaccustomed to Trekschuiten ( § . 5. ) start nearly ...
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... century , the Hague ranked only as a village , because it had neither corporation nor walls , and did not re- turn members to the States General ; Louis Buonaparte , however , during his rule , conferred on it the privileges of a city ...
... century , the Hague ranked only as a village , because it had neither corporation nor walls , and did not re- turn members to the States General ; Louis Buonaparte , however , during his rule , conferred on it the privileges of a city ...
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Page 212 - The river nobly foams and flows, The charm of this enchanted ground, And all its thousand turns disclose Some fresher beauty varying round : The haughtiest breast its wish might bound Through life to dwell delighted here ; Nor could on earth a spot be found To nature and to me so dear, Could thy dear eyes in following mine Still sweeten more these banks of Rhine ! LVI. By Coblentz, on a rise of gentle ground, There is a small and simple pyramid, Crowning the summit of the verdant mound ; Beneath...
Page 212 - The castled Crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine ; And hills all rich with blossomed trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scattered cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine, Have strewed a scene, which I should see With double joy wert thou with me.
Page 232 - tis an excellent bonfire ! " quoth he, " And the country is greatly obliged to me, For ridding it in these times forlorn Of Rats that only consume the corn." So then to his palace returned he, And he sat down to supper merrily, And he slept that night like an innocent man ; But Bishop Hatto never slept again. In the morning as he...
Page 204 - The negligently grand, the fruitful bloom Of coming ripeness, the white city's sheen, The rolling stream, the precipice's gloom, The forest's growth, and Gothic walls between, The wild rocks shaped as they had turrets been, In mockery of man's art ; and these withal A race of faces happy as the scene, Whose fertile bounties here extend to all, Still springing o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fall.
Page 204 - Adieu to thee, fair Rhine ! How long delighted The stranger fain would linger on his way ! Thine is a scene alike where souls united Or lonely Contemplation thus might stray ; And could the ceaseless vultures cease to prey On self-condemning bosoms it were here, Where Nature, nor too sombre, nor too gay, Wild but not rude, awful yet not austere, Is to the mellow earth as Autumn to the year...
Page 201 - 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?
Page 203 - And there they stand, as stands a lofty mind, Worn, but unstooping to the baser crowd, All tenantless, save to the crannying wind, Or holding dark communion with the cloud. There was a day when they were young and proud, Banners on high, and battles pass'd below ; But they who fought are in a bloody shroud, And those which waved are shredless dust ere now, And the bleak battlements shall bear no future blow.
Page 125 - Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low.
Page 125 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...