Letters from Europe, the journal of a tour through Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Italy, and Switzerland, in 1825, '26, and '27, Volume 2 |
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... faces , but are gentle in their man- ners , and industrious in their habits . The towns , villages , and insulated buildings scattered along the road are uniformly mean in appearance , though some of them are ro- mantically situated ...
... faces , but are gentle in their man- ners , and industrious in their habits . The towns , villages , and insulated buildings scattered along the road are uniformly mean in appearance , though some of them are ro- mantically situated ...
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... was un- enlivened by the music of the pastoral pipe ; and long - bearded old men in red caps , or squalid girls , with sun - burnt faces and without shoes or stockings , afforded but a sorry exemplication of 22 LETTERS FROM EUROPE .
... was un- enlivened by the music of the pastoral pipe ; and long - bearded old men in red caps , or squalid girls , with sun - burnt faces and without shoes or stockings , afforded but a sorry exemplication of 22 LETTERS FROM EUROPE .
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... bearing the implements of husbandry , with cheerful and contented faces ; while the smiling landscape bore witness to their honest industry . At the outlet of the vale , stands the town of Albenga , which is LETTERS FROM EUROPE . 37.
... bearing the implements of husbandry , with cheerful and contented faces ; while the smiling landscape bore witness to their honest industry . At the outlet of the vale , stands the town of Albenga , which is LETTERS FROM EUROPE . 37.
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... face a pale and demure look , like that of the holy sisterhood . Subsequent observation proved , that this meek and comely article of dress , so far from being confined to the cloisters of a convent , is the universal costume of Genoese ...
... face a pale and demure look , like that of the holy sisterhood . Subsequent observation proved , that this meek and comely article of dress , so far from being confined to the cloisters of a convent , is the universal costume of Genoese ...
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... face , wearing a cardinal's hat made of wood ! The ordinary crowns for the images of the Virgin and her Bambino ... faces are generally daubed with rouge , and their persons bedizzened with all the finery imaginable - embroidered ...
... face , wearing a cardinal's hat made of wood ! The ordinary crowns for the images of the Virgin and her Bambino ... faces are generally daubed with rouge , and their persons bedizzened with all the finery imaginable - embroidered ...
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Alps altar ancient Angelo antique Apennines appeared Appian arches Arno artist arts bank beautiful borders bridge buildings Campagna di Roma Capitoline Hill celebrated chapel charming church coach cross distance Domenichino Doric order edifice embellishments erected examined excursion exhibiting females Florence French frescos front gallery garden gate Genoa grandeur half height hills Holy hundred feet inhabitants inscription Italian Italy lake LETTER lofty look Madonna magnificent marble miles monuments morning mountains Naples Napoleon o'clock occupied ornaments palace Parian marble passed pavement picture pillars Pisa poet Pompeii Pope porphyry present rich rising road rocks Roman Rome round ruins sarcophagus scene scenery seated seen shore shrine side spacious splendid splendour stands statues streets style summit taste temple theatre Tiber tion Titian tomb Toulon towers town traveller Tuscany vale village Virgil walk walls whole
Popular passages
Page 160 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped 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 hailed the wretch who won.
Page 381 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 288 - Blessed art thou, Simon Bar Jona, because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven. And I say to thee, that thou art Peter; and upon this rock will I build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Page 105 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 298 - Oh, sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains piled on mountains, to the skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
Page 224 - The King of France with twenty thousand men, • Marched up the hill, and then marched down again.
Page 144 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Page 435 - By turning the latter round to the right or to the left, as the case may be...