The Old World and the New: Or, A Journal of Reflections and Observations Made on a Tour in Europe, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1836 - Europe |
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... heard the sound of its eternal winds and waves yet lingering in that mysterious shell . I do not believe that anything in this world , can ever give me a more awful feel- ing of the sublime than did that sound . And the idea that I ...
... heard the sound of its eternal winds and waves yet lingering in that mysterious shell . I do not believe that anything in this world , can ever give me a more awful feel- ing of the sublime than did that sound . And the idea that I ...
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... heard anything of in the books of travels . The next thing to attract the attention of the stranger in ascending the Mersey , is — the glory of Liverpool - its docks . They wall up the river on the Liverpool side , with a solid mass of ...
... heard anything of in the books of travels . The next thing to attract the attention of the stranger in ascending the Mersey , is — the glory of Liverpool - its docks . They wall up the river on the Liverpool side , with a solid mass of ...
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... heard a noise on the lower side , as of a rushing stream chafing its base . I stepped to the wall at the roadside , and perceived that it was , not water , but wind — a mountain gust so powerful , that it was necessary to hold on my hat ...
... heard a noise on the lower side , as of a rushing stream chafing its base . I stepped to the wall at the roadside , and perceived that it was , not water , but wind — a mountain gust so powerful , that it was necessary to hold on my hat ...
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... heard the finest church music by far , that I ever listened to ; and the only performers were a man and two boys . It was at St. Patrick's Cathedral . The organ is the richest I ever heard . As to the ages of the chil- dren , the one of ...
... heard the finest church music by far , that I ever listened to ; and the only performers were a man and two boys . It was at St. Patrick's Cathedral . The organ is the richest I ever heard . As to the ages of the chil- dren , the one of ...
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... heard it as dis- tinctly as the diapason itself . The greatest ease characterized the whole performance , as it always does the highest music . The sermon was very well ; the reading execrably bad . The prayers were sung forth in a kind ...
... heard it as dis- tinctly as the diapason itself . The greatest ease characterized the whole performance , as it always does the highest music . The sermon was very well ; the reading execrably bad . The prayers were sung forth in a kind ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 24 - Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.