A Transatlantic Tour: Comprising Travels in Great Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Italy...Perkins & Purves, 1845 - 391 pages |
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Page 78
... valley of the Connecticut , viewed from Mount Holyoke , and the environs of Boston , approach the nearest to it . The prospect from that celebrated spot , Richmond Hill , which I visited on one of the sweetest of summer days , is truly ...
... valley of the Connecticut , viewed from Mount Holyoke , and the environs of Boston , approach the nearest to it . The prospect from that celebrated spot , Richmond Hill , which I visited on one of the sweetest of summer days , is truly ...
Page 79
... valley , the remembrances of the Poet of the Seasons , whose grave is on Richmond Hill , came to my mind in all their fascinating power . One must visit that scene in the brightness and beauty of a summer's day , in order to appreciate ...
... valley , the remembrances of the Poet of the Seasons , whose grave is on Richmond Hill , came to my mind in all their fascinating power . One must visit that scene in the brightness and beauty of a summer's day , in order to appreciate ...
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... valley ) I visited the Abbey Church , of ex- quisite Gothic architecture , called , from its fifty - two win- dows , the Lantern of England . - St . Michael's , also Gothic , with a tall , graceful spire - the Royal Crescent - the ...
... valley ) I visited the Abbey Church , of ex- quisite Gothic architecture , called , from its fifty - two win- dows , the Lantern of England . - St . Michael's , also Gothic , with a tall , graceful spire - the Royal Crescent - the ...
Page 89
... valley of the Severn , and beyond it , the mountains of Wales . Delightfully situ- ated in the vale of Gloucester is Cheltenham , than which there is not a more fashionable watering - place , or beautiful town , in all England . Another ...
... valley of the Severn , and beyond it , the mountains of Wales . Delightfully situ- ated in the vale of Gloucester is Cheltenham , than which there is not a more fashionable watering - place , or beautiful town , in all England . Another ...
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... valley . The walls of the castle enclose about five acres of ground , and on its sixteen towers are ranged scores of statues , rudely executed in stone , which , from their number and variety of position , relieved against the sky ...
... valley . The walls of the castle enclose about five acres of ground , and on its sixteen towers are ranged scores of statues , rudely executed in stone , which , from their number and variety of position , relieved against the sky ...
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Page 109 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Page 178 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Page 267 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. 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 384 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd 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 hail'd the wretch who won.
Page 150 - There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large and of a dark cast, which glowed, I say literally glowed, when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time.
Page 268 - I saw them — and they were the same, They were not changed like me in frame; I saw their thousand years of snow On high — their wide long lake below. And the blue Rhone in fullest flow...
Page 192 - To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And, sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward, methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore...
Page 319 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night — Sunset divides the sky with her — a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains; heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be Melted to one vast Iris of the West, Where the day joins the past Eternity; While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest!
Page 267 - A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies...
Page 59 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.