A Handbook for Travellers in France: Being a Guide to Normandy, Brittany; the Rivers Seine, Loire, Rhône, and Garonne; the French Alps, Dauphiné, Provence, the Pyrenees, and Nice ...J. Murray, 1864 - 628 sider |
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Side 122 - ... dons, ne perdez point de vue mon panache blanc, vous le « trouverez toujours au chemin de l'honneur et de la victoire.
Side 473 - In midnight darkness, whisper'd my last sigh. I whisper'd what should echo through their realms; Nor writ her name, whose tomb should pierce the skies.
Side 235 - The officers and soldiers of the army must recollect that their nations are at war with France, solely because the ruler of the French nation will not allow them to be at peace, and is desirous of forcing them to submit to his yoke...
Side xxvi - The rose or wheel windows, the deeply recessed and grandly sculptured portals, are both more frequent and of larger dimensions than in English cathedrals, and contribute greatly to the beauty of those of France, where it is not uncommon to find three in one church. The quantity, variety, and richness of the painted glass which the ecclesiastical edifices still retain, in spite of Huguenot iconoclasts and revolutionary destructives, is quite marvellous : w« have nothing to compare with it in England.
Side 460 - Laura's Tomb, described by Arthur Young as " nothing but a stone in the pavement, with a figure engraved on it, partly effaced, surrounded by an inscription in Gothic letters, and another on the wall adjoining, with the armorial bearings of the De Sade family," has entirely disappeared, having been broken open, and the contents of the tomb scattered, by the Revolutionists.
Side 402 - Dôme rises from a granitic platform, and stretches "18 m. in length by 2 in breadth. They are usually truncated at the summit, where the crater is often preserved entire, the lava having issued from the base of the hill; but frequently the crater is broken down on one side, where the lava has flowed out. Had...
Side 50 - ... stabbed himself, leaving about his person a note, written by his own hand, to this effect : " Whoever you may be who find me lying here, treat my remains with respect. They are those of one who devoted his whole life to be useful, and who died as he lived, virtuous and unsullied. May my fellow-citizens embrace more humane sentiments ! When I heard of the death of my wife, I loathed a world stained with so many crimes.
Side 94 - The entrance to Mont St. Michel is by 3 gates, one within the other, the second flanked by 2 of the long cannon with which the English forces of Henry V. ineffectually bombarded the mount in 1424, firing from them stone balls 1 ft. in diameter. Near this the arms of the knights of St.
Side 473 - Denied the charity of dust, to spread O'er dust ! a charity their dogs enjoy. What could I do ? What succour? What resource ? With pious sacrilege, a grave I stole ; With impious piety, that grave I wrong'd; Short in my duty; coward in my grief!
Side 112 - From the Petit Trianon and Marly, there came hither to worship God, many a courtier and many a beauty, heart-broken or jaded with the very vanity of vanities — the idolatry of their fellow mortals.