Our Cruise in the Undine: The Journal of an English Pair-oar Expedition Through France, Baden, Rhenish Bavaria, Prussia, and BelgiumJ. W. Parker and son, 1854 - 156 pages |
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... French was limited . We next visited the yard of Messrs . Noulton and Wyld , boatbuilders , Lambeth , with whom we had previously corresponded , and found that the boat would be ready to leave London the following morning . She was a ...
... French was limited . We next visited the yard of Messrs . Noulton and Wyld , boatbuilders , Lambeth , with whom we had previously corresponded , and found that the boat would be ready to leave London the following morning . She was a ...
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... French rowers , our friend conceived the idea of giving them a licking in return , being confident of success , on account of the utter ignorance of the art and mystery of pulling among the French . Accordingly , he requested Messrs ...
... French rowers , our friend conceived the idea of giving them a licking in return , being confident of success , on account of the utter ignorance of the art and mystery of pulling among the French . Accordingly , he requested Messrs ...
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... French clubs , the Villida , ' which for the last six years has never been beaten excepting by the English ; and now that they have imitated the English style of rowing to a certain extent , have become formidable opponents , espe ...
... French clubs , the Villida , ' which for the last six years has never been beaten excepting by the English ; and now that they have imitated the English style of rowing to a certain extent , have become formidable opponents , espe ...
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... were playing , and a great number of people had collected on the banks to witness the regatta . All their racing boats were there also , from the odd French boat , which by the regulation 16 A RACE . measures in breadth one half her.
... were playing , and a great number of people had collected on the banks to witness the regatta . All their racing boats were there also , from the odd French boat , which by the regulation 16 A RACE . measures in breadth one half her.
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... French crews is something wonderful : one has an entire suit of black , another a suit of two colours arranged in a very quaint manner , one half of the jersey and one arm being red , and the other half blue , perhaps , and the op ...
... French crews is something wonderful : one has an entire suit of black , another a suit of two colours arranged in a very quaint manner , one half of the jersey and one arm being red , and the other half blue , perhaps , and the op ...
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Page 138 - IN the ancient town of Bruges, In the quaint old Flemish city, As the evening shades descended, Low and loud and sweetly blended, Low at times and loud at times, And changing like a poet's rhymes, Rang the beautiful wild chimes From the Belfry in the market Of the ancient town of Bruges.
Page 132 - Ghent is said to have contained 80,000 men capable of bearing arms. The number of weavers then amounted to 40,000 ; and they alone could furnish 18,000 fighting men out of their corporation. A custom derived from that period still exists in the town : — A bell was rung at morning, noon, and evening, to summon the weavers to their work and meals ; while it tolled, the drawbridges over the canals could not be raised for the passage of vessels ; and other persons were even enjoined not to go out into...
Page 22 - Or stretch'd on the beach, or our saddles spread As a pillow beneath the resting head, Fresh we woke upon the morrow : All our thoughts and words had scope, We had health, and we had hope, Toil and travel, but no sorrow.
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Page 114 - ... this noble river ! And right it is; for, of all the rivers of this beautiful earth, there is none so beautiful as this. There is hardly a league of its whole course, from its cradle in the snowy Alps to its grave in the sands of Holland, which boasts not its peculiar charms. By...
Page 114 - ... no other part of its course does it fill an ampler channel or roll along with more impetuous rapidity. It enters the Lake of Constance turbid with the impurities of the glacier torrents which feed it. It emerges crystalline in purity, and deliciously green in colour. Well may Longfellow exclaim : " O the pride of the German heart in this noble river! And right it is, for of all the rivers of this beautiful earth there is none so beautiful as this.
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Page 114 - The Rhine ! the Rhine ! a blessing on the Rhine !" O, the pride of the German heart in this noble river ! And right it is ; for, of all the rivers of this beautiful earth, there is none so beautiful as this. There is hardly a league of its whole course, from its cradle in the snowy Alps to its grave in the sands of Holland, which boasts not its peculiar charms.