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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... rock , from the top of which a fine view of this splendid river is to be obtained . While we were enjoying our supper , an Austrian bargee who was sitting with his friends in the same room as ourselves , became very merry , and indulged ...
... rock , from the top of which a fine view of this splendid river is to be obtained . While we were enjoying our supper , an Austrian bargee who was sitting with his friends in the same room as ourselves , became very merry , and indulged ...
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... rock five hundred feet high , of the most picturesque form , overhangs the road , which has barely room to pass between it and the river . The charge at our halting - place to - day would supply ample materiel for some of the recent cor ...
... rock five hundred feet high , of the most picturesque form , overhangs the road , which has barely room to pass between it and the river . The charge at our halting - place to - day would supply ample materiel for some of the recent cor ...
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... rock which forms the base of a line of hills one thousand feet high . We got into difficulties in leaving Clerval ... rocks which we had easily avoided in going up stream . The drive along the banks here must be very 58 THE VOSGES ...
... rock which forms the base of a line of hills one thousand feet high . We got into difficulties in leaving Clerval ... rocks which we had easily avoided in going up stream . The drive along the banks here must be very 58 THE VOSGES ...
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... rocks in the river , and the stream ran an incredible number of miles in the hour . But we respectfully declined doing anything of the kind , for we knew that had we listened to their advice , we should have got into trouble , everybody ...
... rocks in the river , and the stream ran an incredible number of miles in the hour . But we respectfully declined doing anything of the kind , for we knew that had we listened to their advice , we should have got into trouble , everybody ...
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... rocks , whirlpools , and other great dangers , which they said we must inevitably encounter , we were really about to trust ourselves on the Rhine , until they saw us fairly in the boat , and then they ex- claimed , ' We grieve to think ...
... rocks , whirlpools , and other great dangers , which they said we must inevitably encounter , we were really about to trust ourselves on the Rhine , until they saw us fairly in the boat , and then they ex- claimed , ' We grieve to think ...
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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.
Page 156 - The Merchant and the Friar; or, Truths and Fictions of the Middle Ages. By Sir F.
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.
Page 155 - Brampton Rectory: or, the Lesson of Life. Second Edition. 8s. 6d. Compton Merivale: another Leaf from the Lesson of Life. By the Author of Brampton Rectory . 8s.
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.