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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... seems inaccessible and impregnable both by land and sea . From the age of Louis XII . to the present time , millions have been appropriated , in constructing moles , fortress- es , batteries , citadels , arsenals , walls , and military ...
... seems inaccessible and impregnable both by land and sea . From the age of Louis XII . to the present time , millions have been appropriated , in constructing moles , fortress- es , batteries , citadels , arsenals , walls , and military ...
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... seem wholly impracticable . Batteries were planted in the fastnesses of the moun- tains , above the reach of annoyance from the harbour , and a cannon- ade opened upon the town , which compelled the allied invaders to re- treat . A ...
... seem wholly impracticable . Batteries were planted in the fastnesses of the moun- tains , above the reach of annoyance from the harbour , and a cannon- ade opened upon the town , which compelled the allied invaders to re- treat . A ...
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... seems inaccessible and impregnable both by land and sea . From the age of Louis XII . to the present time , millions have been appropriated , in constructing moles , fortress- es , batteries , citadels , arsenals , walls , and military ...
... seems inaccessible and impregnable both by land and sea . From the age of Louis XII . to the present time , millions have been appropriated , in constructing moles , fortress- es , batteries , citadels , arsenals , walls , and military ...
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... seem , at the town of Le Luc , stand- ing at the junction of two great roads , and containing three thousand inhabitants , there is not a single hotel , where a person can rest with comfort . Reduced to the alternative of taking ...
... seem , at the town of Le Luc , stand- ing at the junction of two great roads , and containing three thousand inhabitants , there is not a single hotel , where a person can rest with comfort . Reduced to the alternative of taking ...
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... seems to view the giant sentinels , planted along the northern frontier of Italy , in an individual rather than a collective capacity , and familiarly speaks of encountering this or that one of the group in her endless adventures . But ...
... seems to view the giant sentinels , planted along the northern frontier of Italy , in an individual rather than a collective capacity , and familiarly speaks of encountering this or that one of the group in her endless adventures . But ...
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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...