Continental Adventures: A Novel, Τόμος 1Hurst, Robinson, 1826 - 400 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 97
... Swiss passionately love the country . Every gentleman has a Câmpagne , or country house , in which he spends the whole summer and generally indeed the greatest part of the year ; and though perhaps not always in the best taste , these Swiss ...
... Swiss passionately love the country . Every gentleman has a Câmpagne , or country house , in which he spends the whole summer and generally indeed the greatest part of the year ; and though perhaps not always in the best taste , these Swiss ...
Σελίδα 98
... Swiss live more for their families and friends . The Swiss are far more domestic and retired in their habits , and more attached to all the pursuits and pleasures which make home happy . They are far more like the English . They are ...
... Swiss live more for their families and friends . The Swiss are far more domestic and retired in their habits , and more attached to all the pursuits and pleasures which make home happy . They are far more like the English . They are ...
Σελίδα 99
... Swiss lady , and we have been staying with two Swiss families , relations of hers , ever since we arrived in this delightful country , so that we are completely domesticated with the Swiss , and have had full opportunity of seeing their ...
... Swiss lady , and we have been staying with two Swiss families , relations of hers , ever since we arrived in this delightful country , so that we are completely domesticated with the Swiss , and have had full opportunity of seeing their ...
Σελίδα 100
... Swiss , and indeed all foreigners , very sensibly make their calls upon each other in the evening , instead of break- ing in upon the pursuits of the morning - like the English , to the mutual annoyance of the visitor and visited ...
... Swiss , and indeed all foreigners , very sensibly make their calls upon each other in the evening , instead of break- ing in upon the pursuits of the morning - like the English , to the mutual annoyance of the visitor and visited ...
Σελίδα 101
... Swiss Soireés , because , at this season , every one being in the country , there are few regular parties . I am certainly disposed -very illiberally you will say - to attribute the superior morality and good habits of the Swiss to the ...
... Swiss Soireés , because , at this season , every one being in the country , there are few regular parties . I am certainly disposed -very illiberally you will say - to attribute the superior morality and good habits of the Swiss to the ...
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Σελίδα 3 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Σελίδα 178 - IX. 0 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 ! X.
Σελίδα 150 - 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 178 - 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 158 - Appals the gazing mourner's heart, As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon ; Yes, but for these, and these alone, Some moments, ay, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power; So fair, so calm, so softly sealed, The first, last look by death revealed...
Σελίδα 141 - Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O : Her 'prentice han' she try'd on man, An
Σελίδα 346 - The natural music of the mountain reed — For here the patriarchal days are not A pastoral fable — pipes in the liberal air, Mixed with the sweet bells of the sauntering herd; My soul would drink those echoes.
Σελίδα 346 - 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 214 - 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 x - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me ; Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuff's out his vacant garments with his form ; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief.