The Old World and the New: Or, A Journal of Reflections and Observations Made on a Tour in Europe, Volum 1Harper & Brothers, 1836 |
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... the People - Swiss Songs - Return to Thun - Road to Berne - Lake of Neufchatel - Castle Grand- son- -Battle field of Charles the Bold and the Swiss - Yverdun -Lausanne - Geneva · • 212 CHAPTER XI . Excursion to Chamouni and Mont Blanc -
... the People - Swiss Songs - Return to Thun - Road to Berne - Lake of Neufchatel - Castle Grand- son- -Battle field of Charles the Bold and the Swiss - Yverdun -Lausanne - Geneva · • 212 CHAPTER XI . Excursion to Chamouni and Mont Blanc -
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... Lake of Geneva - Travelling with Vetturino - Chillon -- Upper Valley of the Rhone - Sion - The Simplon Road - Scenery of the Simplon - Lake Maggiore 233 JOURNAL . CHAPTER I. Passage across the Atlantic - The xii CONTENTS .
... Lake of Geneva - Travelling with Vetturino - Chillon -- Upper Valley of the Rhone - Sion - The Simplon Road - Scenery of the Simplon - Lake Maggiore 233 JOURNAL . CHAPTER I. Passage across the Atlantic - The xii CONTENTS .
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... roads and gravelled walks , with noble clumps and winding belts , and majestic avenues of trees in every direction - the gardens and orna- mental grounds alone employing sixty or seventy men the year round ; conceive of an immense ...
... roads and gravelled walks , with noble clumps and winding belts , and majestic avenues of trees in every direction - the gardens and orna- mental grounds alone employing sixty or seventy men the year round ; conceive of an immense ...
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... road , with not one pebble to jar your car- riage wheel the edge of it as accurately defined by the bordering , smooth - shaven greensward , as if the thing were done with scissors ; a fine belt of trees accompanying it on either side ...
... road , with not one pebble to jar your car- riage wheel the edge of it as accurately defined by the bordering , smooth - shaven greensward , as if the thing were done with scissors ; a fine belt of trees accompanying it on either side ...
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... road to Bangor are Holywell and St. Asaphs , not remarkable ex- cept as all these Welsh towns seem to me remark- able for ugliness ; built without any order ; the streets narrow ; scarcely any sidewalks ; the houses mostly small , dingy ...
... road to Bangor are Holywell and St. Asaphs , not remarkable ex- cept as all these Welsh towns seem to me remark- able for ugliness ; built without any order ; the streets narrow ; scarcely any sidewalks ; the houses mostly small , dingy ...
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Alps America amid appearance beautiful beneath bosom building built by-the-by castle cathedral certainly Chamouni chapel Charles the Bold Christianity church clouds coach colour cottages dark deep dress Edinburgh Old Town Eiger England feel feet high field Geneva give Gothic ground Haddon Hall heard heart height hills houses human hundred feet immense Jungfrau lake Lake Maggiore Lake of Geneva land Lauterbrunnen Llanberis look Lord Grosvenor manners mass Melrose Abbey Menai Bridge mighty miles mind Mont Blanc morning moun mountains never objects Old World paintings passed pinnacles political precipice religion religious Rhine ride Righi rising road ruins scarcely scene scenery Schaffhausen seat seemed seen shore side Simplon spot stone streets striking stupendous sublime Swiss Switzerland tain things thought thousand Thun tion to-day towers town travellers trees valley village visited walk walls Wengernalp whole Windsor Castle women
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Side 139 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next, with dirges due in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) th« lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Side 139 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Side 24 - Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.
Side 232 - Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart ; Go forth, under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings...
Side 139 - One morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree ; Another came ; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he. ' The next with dirges due in sad array Slow thro' the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Side 138 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap. Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Side 90 - He remarked afterward that although he was known to the world only as a poet, he had given twelve hours' thought to the condition and prospects of society, for one to poetry.
Side 84 - 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...
Side 95 - The fading light trembled upon the bosom of the waters, which were here slightly ruffled, and there lay as a mirror to reflect the serenity of heaven. The dark mountains lay beyond, with every varying shade that varying distance could give them. The farthest ridges were sowed with light, as if it were resolved into separate particles and showered down into the darkness below, to make it visible. The mountain side had a softness of shadowing upon it, such as I never saw before, and such as no painting...
Side 90 - W converses with great earnestness, and has a habit, as he walks and talks, of stopping every fourth or fifth step, and turning round to you to enforce what he is saying.