Impressions at home and abroad; or, A year of real lifeSmith, Elder and Company, 1837 |
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... Church of St. Nicholas - Promenade - Start for Paris - Irish cure for sea - sickness - Route - Abbeville- Old lady's story - Gratitude , A tale of the Three Days— Morning - Beauvais - A recognition - Breakfast - St . Denis Avenue - Port ...
... Church of St. Nicholas - Promenade - Start for Paris - Irish cure for sea - sickness - Route - Abbeville- Old lady's story - Gratitude , A tale of the Three Days— Morning - Beauvais - A recognition - Breakfast - St . Denis Avenue - Port ...
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... church serves for a kind of land - mark , and the equally well - finished Catholic chapel stands to the right . After continuing by the broad street in front of the Church , I reached the square , the north side of which is occupied by ...
... church serves for a kind of land - mark , and the equally well - finished Catholic chapel stands to the right . After continuing by the broad street in front of the Church , I reached the square , the north side of which is occupied by ...
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... churches . " The monks are about fifty in number , but will be soon increased , owing to another convent intend- ing ... church on one side , and the dwellings on the others , is the cemetery . It is not yet laid out properly - but one ...
... churches . " The monks are about fifty in number , but will be soon increased , owing to another convent intend- ing ... church on one side , and the dwellings on the others , is the cemetery . It is not yet laid out properly - but one ...
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... church was built here , when Sebert , King of Essex , became a convert to the Cross in 600 , and the cathedral of the diocese has been continued here ever since . The ancient ca- thedral was the work of many ages , till it became one of ...
... church was built here , when Sebert , King of Essex , became a convert to the Cross in 600 , and the cathedral of the diocese has been continued here ever since . The ancient ca- thedral was the work of many ages , till it became one of ...
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... church . The Irish Chapel is long and lofty , has a broad aisle , and ample side and front galleries , yet was completely filled . I never saw a place of worship so thronged . The ceremony of the grand High Mass was imposing , as usual ...
... church . The Irish Chapel is long and lofty , has a broad aisle , and ample side and front galleries , yet was completely filled . I never saw a place of worship so thronged . The ceremony of the grand High Mass was imposing , as usual ...
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Page 317 - Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with Nature's tear-drops, as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low.
Page 21 - Clarens ! sweet Clarens, birthplace of deep Love ! Thine air is the young breath of passionate thought ; Thy trees take root in Love ; the snows above The very Glaciers have his colours caught, And sun-set into rose-hues sees them wrought By rays which sleep there lovingly...
Page 70 - And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Page 3 - Diamonds on the brake are gleaming; And foresters have busy been To track the buck in thicket green; Now we come to chant our lay "Waken, lords and ladies gay.
Page xxiii - Then welcome business, welcome strife, Welcome the cares, the thorns of life, The visage wan, the pore-blind sight, The toil by day, the lamp by night, The tedious forms, the solemn prate, The pert dispute, the dull debate, The drowsy bench, the babbling hall, For thee, fair Justice, welcome all!
Page 233 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page i - What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in every thing, and who, having eyes to see what time and chance are perpetually holding out to him as he journeyeth on his way, misses nothing he can fairly lay his hands on...
Page 215 - Where the car climbed the Capitol; far and wide Temple and tower went down, nor left a site : — Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say,
Page 31 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 47 - When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear With hounds of Sparta : never did I hear Such gallant chiding ; for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry : I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.