Haps and Mishaps of a Tour in Europe

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Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854 - Europe - 437 pages
 

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Page 112 - On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays, When the clear, cold eve's declining, He sees the round towers of other days, In the wave beneath him shining! Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the days that are over, Thus, sighing, look through the waves of time For the long-faded glories they cover!
Page 104 - Ah ! your Saints have cruel hearts ! Sternly from his bed he starts. And, with rude, repulsive shock, Hurls her from the beetling rock. Glendalough ! thy gloomy wave Soon was gentle Kathleen's grave ! Soon the Saint (yet ah ! too late) Felt her love, and mourn'd her fate. When he said,
Page 118 - Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shall not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths...
Page 211 - ... therefore, my experience can be of any use to you, here it is. I wish you would also give my letter to the other monitors, House and School, to read, and if any one of you finds an answer in it to any doubts he has had in his own mind, my purpose in writing it will have been fully answered. I know that I am laying myself open to the charge of presumption in thus volunteering my advice, but I am sure you will all of you forgive me, and take what I say in the spirit in which it is written. You...
Page 68 - Elizabeth's armoury is the gallery of greatest interest. It contains an equestrian figure of Her Virgin Majesty in the costume in which she went to St. Paul's to return thanks for the destruction of the Spanish Armada. Here are many curious weapons, very ancient and awful ; such as the "Military Flail," the " Catchpole," the
Page 72 - Still with their fires Love tipt his keenest darts ; As once they drew into two burning rings All beams of Love, melting the mighty hearts Of captains and of kings.
Page 224 - Antonio. There was an immense crowd of all descriptions and classes of people ; among the rest, a vast convocation of beggars, the crippled and maimed in endless varieties, wrecks and remnants, divisions and subdivisions of men. A priest stood on the steps of the church, with a holy-water sprinkler in his hand, and a little boy at his side, bearing the ///-/tier.
Page 42 - Lucy, and her beautiful greyhound Mayflower. I looked longingly over towards Aberleigh, and sighed, that she who had made those lovely rural scenes the haunts of charmed fancy, and places of quiet delight, and refreshment, for thousands, could herself roam over them and rejoice in them no more. I knew when we were near Miss Mitford's...
Page 8 - ... line," recommended by my friend E , I really could not sleep at first, for the pleasure of the change. I tried one soft pillow, then another, in the very daintiness of repose. I made sundry eccentric excursions, explorations of the vast extent of unoccupied territory around me. I measured the magnificent length and breadth of the elastic mattress beneath me, and wrapped myself regally in the lavender-scented linen. Owing to my continued indisposition, and the rainy weather, I have as yet seen...
Page 143 - Duke's death, we passed naturally, as though following up the disasters of his doomed family, to the ruins of the Palace of Neuilly, one of the most melancholy of sights. This favourite summer residence of Louis Philippe had evidently little of the royal and imposing about it, but was a quiet, lovely, home-like place, sanctified by much of domestic happiness, purity, and simplicity of life — so is its destruction, its desolation, the more touching to behold. The objects of most interest in the...

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