The narrative of a journey, undertaken in ... 1819, 1820 & 1821, through France, Italy, Savoy, Switzerland, parts of Germany bordering on the Rhine, Holland, and the Netherlands |
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... objects of my journey , remembering , as Cowper happily expresses it , that " To reach the distant coast , The breath of Heaven must swell the sail , Or all our toil is lost . " It may be difficult to say , under what descrip- tion of ...
... objects of my journey , remembering , as Cowper happily expresses it , that " To reach the distant coast , The breath of Heaven must swell the sail , Or all our toil is lost . " It may be difficult to say , under what descrip- tion of ...
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... kept up amongst us , tended materially to promote my object of acquir- ing the language . The following anecdote will serve to shew , how much I was in need of im- provement in this respect . 26 TOUTE A L'HEURE . On the morning after my.
... kept up amongst us , tended materially to promote my object of acquir- ing the language . The following anecdote will serve to shew , how much I was in need of im- provement in this respect . 26 TOUTE A L'HEURE . On the morning after my.
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... object of the pre- sent narrative , being to relate the incidents of a journey , which at the time greatly interested me , and to give as faithful representations of men and manners , as the opportunities which presented themselves ...
... object of the pre- sent narrative , being to relate the incidents of a journey , which at the time greatly interested me , and to give as faithful representations of men and manners , as the opportunities which presented themselves ...
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... objects of real charity ; as it is impossible that persons with limited incomes , can afford a sous for each , it is not unusual to give them one , and take change out of it . The winter proved unusually severe ; from the middle of ...
... objects of real charity ; as it is impossible that persons with limited incomes , can afford a sous for each , it is not unusual to give them one , and take change out of it . The winter proved unusually severe ; from the middle of ...
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... object of his affections , and amply was he re- paid , when he could thus steal a glimpse of her beloved form . But he was soon compelled to tear himself away to prosecute his studies in Pa- ris ; her image pursued him , and dwelt ...
... object of his affections , and amply was he re- paid , when he could thus steal a glimpse of her beloved form . But he was soon compelled to tear himself away to prosecute his studies in Pa- ris ; her image pursued him , and dwelt ...
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Page 226 - My father's spirit in arms ! all is not well; I doubt some foul play: 'would, the night were come! Till then sit still, my soul: Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
Page 253 - Imagination's tender frame, From nerve to nerve; all naked and alive They catch the spreading rays; till now the soul At length discloses every tuneful spring, To that harmonious movement from without Responsive. Then the inexpressive strain Diffuses its enchantment: Fancy dreams Of sacred fountains and Elysian groves, And vales of bliss...
Page v - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Page 311 - A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies...
Page 273 - And she, proud Austria's mournful flower, Thy still imperial bride, How bears her breast the torturing hour ? Still clings she to thy side ? Must she too bend, must she too share Thy late repentance, long despair, Thou throneless Homicide ? If still she loves thee, hoard that gem — 'Tis worth thy vanished diadem!
Page 293 - While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind ; But, more advanced, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise.
Page 275 - True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
Page 290 - Thine evil deeds are writ in gore, Nor written thus in vain — Thy triumphs tell of fame no more, Or deepen every stain : If thou hadst died as honour dies, Some new Napoleon might arise, To shame the world again — But who would soar the solar height, To set in such a starless night ? Weigh'd in the balance, hero dust Is vile as vulgar clay; Thy scales, Mortality!
Page 179 - Red sheets of fire seemed to blaze upwards into the glowing heavens, and then to pour down their liquid streams upon the earth. This was followed by an incessant and complicated display of every varied device that imagination could figure, one changing into another, and the beauty of the first effaced by that of the last. Hundreds of immense wheels turned round with a velocity that almost seemed as if demons were whirling them, letting fall thousands of hissing dragons...
Page 299 - Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread; No product here the barren hills afford, But man and steel, the soldier and his sword...