Continental Adventures: A Novel ...Wells and Lilly, 1826 - 284 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα viii
... a wife , a daughter , and a mother ; --- and they can best understand the se- cret pangs of agony , which , since these trifling pages were written , have wrung the heart of THE AUTHOR . CHAPTER I. ENGLAND . Farewell to the land where in.
... a wife , a daughter , and a mother ; --- and they can best understand the se- cret pangs of agony , which , since these trifling pages were written , have wrung the heart of THE AUTHOR . CHAPTER I. ENGLAND . Farewell to the land where in.
Σελίδα 1
... land where in childhood I wandered ! MOORE . My native land - good night ! LORD BYRON . Travelling in youth is part of education . BACON . In a room strewed over with the usual elegant English litter of music , books , prints , cabinets ...
... land where in childhood I wandered ! MOORE . My native land - good night ! LORD BYRON . Travelling in youth is part of education . BACON . In a room strewed over with the usual elegant English litter of music , books , prints , cabinets ...
Σελίδα 2
... Land of brown heath and shaggy wood ! Land of the mountain and the flood ! Land of my sires ! " No , " exclaimed Caroline , " but now I exclaim , " O Italy ! serene and mild ! Meet nurse for a romantic child ! Land of the classic field ...
... Land of brown heath and shaggy wood ! Land of the mountain and the flood ! Land of my sires ! " No , " exclaimed Caroline , " but now I exclaim , " O Italy ! serene and mild ! Meet nurse for a romantic child ! Land of the classic field ...
Σελίδα 8
... land of her birth . Caroline St. Clair possessed all the excellencies and all the defects that are usually attendant upon a generous and ardent character . No one knew their faults better than herself - no human being was ever more free ...
... land of her birth . Caroline St. Clair possessed all the excellencies and all the defects that are usually attendant upon a generous and ardent character . No one knew their faults better than herself - no human being was ever more free ...
Σελίδα 12
... land , and good for nothing on water . " You cannot conceive what a strange sort of feeling it is , that of seeing , for the first time , the shores of your country recede from your view , and launching out as it were on the broad ...
... land , and good for nothing on water . " You cannot conceive what a strange sort of feeling it is , that of seeing , for the first time , the shores of your country recede from your view , and launching out as it were on the broad ...
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Alps amusing BALCARRIS beautiful beheld beneath Berne Bernese Oberland Biddy's breakfast CAROLINE ST carriage castle certainly Chamouni char Clair cold Colonel Cleveland conversation dark dear deep delightful dinner dirty Eiger England English exclaimed eyes fancy feel France French friends gentleman Georgiana glacier gout Grindelwald guides heard heart Heathcote heaven height hour Interlachen Jungfrau Lady Hunlocke lake laughing Lausanne Lindsay look Lord Byron Lord Lumber Lord Lumbercourt Mademoiselle Delemont marry Martigny ment Mer de Glace Miss Biddy Miss St Mont Blanc morning mountain mule never night party passed peasants Petrarch picturesque Plait precipice rings rock romantic scarcely scene seemed Servoz side sight singing snow soul steep stood storm sublime summit suppose sure Swiss Switzerland talk thing towering travellers trees tremendous vale valley Vaucluse walked whole woman women woods young
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Σελίδα 119 - O how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! These charms shall work thy soul's eternal health, And love, and gentleness, and joy impart.
Σελίδα 100 - Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away : O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw ! But soft ! but soft ! aside : here comes the king.
Σελίδα 2 - CALEDONIA ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood...
Σελίδα 146 - THE King of France, with twenty thousand men, Went up the hill, and then came down again ; The King of Spain, with twenty thousand more, Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before.
Σελίδα 234 - The mists boil up around the glaciers ; clouds Rise curling fast beneath me, white and sulphury, Like foam from the roused ocean of deep Hell, Whose every wave breaks on a living shore Heap'd with the damn'd like pebbles.
Σελίδα 90 - Is there a heart that music cannot melt ? Alas ! how is that rugged heart forlorn ! Is there who ne'er those mystic transports felt Of solitude and melancholy born ? He needs not woo the Muse ; he is her scorn : The sophist's rope of cobweb he shall twine ; Mope o'er the schoolman's peevish page; or mourn, And delve for life in Mammon's dirty mine ; Sneak with the scoundrel fox, or grunt with glutton swine.
Σελίδα 77 - Walked forth to tell his beads, And he met with a lady fair, Clad in a pilgrim's weeds. " Now Christ thee save, thou reverend friar ! I pray thee tell to me, If ever at yon holy shrine My true love thou didst see." " And how should I know your true love From many another one...
Σελίδα 234 - For here the patriarchal days are not A pastoral fable— pipes in the liberal air, Mix'd with the sweet bells of the sauntering herd; My soul would drink those echoes. Oh, that I were The viewless spirit of a lovely sound, A living voice, a breathing harmony, A bodiless enjoyment— born and dying With the blest tone which made me!
Σελίδα 160 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, hi a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Σελίδα 95 - Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O : Her 'prentice han' she try'd on man, An