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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... ground for surveying the institutions , customs , and character of his own country , which might entitle the results of his ob- servation to some regard . There are many sub- jects of this nature , which the spectacle of the Old World ...
... ground for surveying the institutions , customs , and character of his own country , which might entitle the results of his ob- servation to some regard . There are many sub- jects of this nature , which the spectacle of the Old World ...
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... ground at the entrance , level with the street ; and not far distant , is the parsonage or rectory occupied by the officiating clergyman , who enjoys a handsome salary from the board of aldermen . The brick of which the city is mostly ...
... ground at the entrance , level with the street ; and not far distant , is the parsonage or rectory occupied by the officiating clergyman , who enjoys a handsome salary from the board of aldermen . The brick of which the city is mostly ...
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... grounds , at Eaton Hall , raised on a platform of marble , taken from one of the palaces of Tibe- rius at Capri so far westward did the wing of the Roman eagle stretch . This altar might have been erected to the god Terminus ; but it is ...
... grounds , at Eaton Hall , raised on a platform of marble , taken from one of the palaces of Tibe- rius at Capri so far westward did the wing of the Roman eagle stretch . This altar might have been erected to the god Terminus ; but it is ...
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... grounds - broad lawns intersected by smooth 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 ...
... grounds - broad lawns intersected by smooth 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 ...
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... ground for the Menai Bridge . " JULY 4. To - day I made an excursion down to Caernarvon , through the pass of Llanberis , to Capel Curig ( Kerrig ) and back again to Bangor , and on to Holyhead . At Caernarvon is another old castle of ...
... ground for the Menai Bridge . " JULY 4. To - day I made an excursion down to Caernarvon , through the pass of Llanberis , to Capel Curig ( Kerrig ) and back again to Bangor , and on to Holyhead . At Caernarvon is another old castle of ...
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Page 137 - 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 137 - The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed...
Page 93 - Above all, was the clear sky, looking almost cold, it looked so pure, along the horizon — but warmed in the region a little higher, with the vermilion tints of the softest sunset. I am persuaded that the world might be travelled over without the sight of one such spectacle as this — and all owing to the circumstances — the time — the hour. It was perhaps not the least of those circumstances influencing the scene, that it was an hour passed in one of his own holy retreats, with Wordsworth...
Page 230 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course, nor yet in the cold ground Where thy pale form was laid with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Page 82 - 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 88 - 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 137 - 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 tbou canst read ) the lay 'Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 93 - 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 91 - ... they neutralised and balanced each other. I admitted, however, that there was danger; that all popular institutions involved danger; that freedom was a trust, and a perilous trust. Still I insisted that this was only an instance of a general principle; that all probation was perilous; that the greatest opportunity was always the greatest peril. I maintained, also, that think as we might of political liberty, there was no helping it; that in the civilized world, the course of opinion was irresistibly...