Seven Weeks in Belgium, Switzerland, Lombardy, Piedmont, Savoy, Volum 1Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838 |
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Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
Alpnach amused Antwerp appearance beautiful Belgian passport Belgium Berne Bruges Brussels built carriage cathedral celebrated Charlemagne chevaux de frise church clouds Cologne colour courier cross dark diligence dinner distance dress Dutch England English erected fancy favourable feel feet felt female francs French Freyburg gate German Ghent going Gothic architecture horses Hôtel Hôtel de Ville hour hundred immense inquire journey Küssnacht lady looked lower Lucerne luggage magnificent ment morning mountain nearly night o'clock ornaments Ostend painted palace passed passports plants pleasant pretty probably Prussian Rhine Righi river road rocks round route Sarnen scene scenery Scheldt seemed seen side sometimes soon sort specimens spire steamer stone strange Strasburg streets summit Switzerland table d'hôte thing thought tower town travellers trees ugly Urlaub vessel walk walls Weissenthurm whole wine wooden yards
Populære avsnitt
Side 181 - Kohln, a town of monks and bones, And pavements fang'd with murderous stones, And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches; I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks ! Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne ; But tell me, nymphs ! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine ? ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTURE FROM THE SAME CITY.
Side 364 - She asked whether people would not soon come to take them out. Francisca answered that it was the day of judgment, and that no one was left to help them, but that they would be released by death, and be happy in heaven.
Side 206 - The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine...
Side 365 - All this time the distracted father, who had saved himself and two children, as if by miracle, continued wandering about, until, at daybreak, he discovered the ruins of his house ; and, looking eagerly around him for some fatal relic of the disaster, observed a human foot projecting from the earth ; and there found his unhappy wife, who had perished with the child in her arms. His cries of agony...
Side 364 - on my head, sometimes on my feet, in total darkness, and forcibly separated from the child." When this violent whirling motion subsided, she found herself wedged in on all sides, Her head downwards, much bruised, suffering extreme pain, and impressed with the belief that she was buried deep in the earth, and must there perish by a lingering death. Disengaging her right hand with much difficulty, and wiping the blood from her eyes, she heard the faint moans of Marianne, and...
Side 311 - ... But what I would wish to impress upon my readers' mind is, that we are warranted, I think, by the word of God, to carry all our cares, however trifling, to Him, to cast all our burdens, however small, on Him who has graciously promised to sustain us if we do so. Our great cares must often seem small in the eyes of Him who " taketh up the isles as a very little thing...
Side 365 - At length, however, her rescue was also effected, but she was in so weakened a state, that her life was despaired of. She was blind for several days, and remained ever after subject to convulsive fits of terror.
Side 364 - ... violent whirling motion subsided, she found herself wedged in on all sides : her head downwards, much bruised, suffering extreme pain, and impressed with the belief that she was buried deep in the earth, and must there perish by a lingering death. " Disengaging her right hand with much difficulty, and wiping the blood from her eyes, she heard the faint moans of the child. Calling to her by name, the little girl replied that she was held down on her back, and closely entangled among...
Side 118 - DESCENDING a flight of stone steps, through folding doors, opens, to the astonished and delighted gaze, the interior of this beautiful and magnificent structure, justly pronounced to be one of the finest specimens of gothic architecture in the kingdom ; or even, as some good judges have said, in Europe. It...
Side 66 - St. Peter's; and however great may be the excellencies of puritanism in other respects, to art it is, if not fatal, at least barren and cold.