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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... thousands of years . After examining these spots , I went to the lower ranges of columns which rise just above the water , and landed from the boat to inspect them . They are wonderfully curious ; of all sizes and shapes- from six to ...
... thousands of years . After examining these spots , I went to the lower ranges of columns which rise just above the water , and landed from the boat to inspect them . They are wonderfully curious ; of all sizes and shapes- from six to ...
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... thousand times , in mag- nitude , intensity , and importance . N If I were asked what is the great charm about this Old World , and if I wished to generalize the answ I should say , it is antiquity — antiquity in its castles , its towns ...
... thousand times , in mag- nitude , intensity , and importance . N If I were asked what is the great charm about this Old World , and if I wished to generalize the answ I should say , it is antiquity — antiquity in its castles , its towns ...
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... thousand tales of romance . A Highland cot- tage , at the bottom of one of the wildest Highland passes ! what would it be , and what its inmates ? I found a woman and her daughter , who told me that they had no neighbours , and ...
... thousand tales of romance . A Highland cot- tage , at the bottom of one of the wildest Highland passes ! what would it be , and what its inmates ? I found a woman and her daughter , who told me that they had no neighbours , and ...
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... thousand years , it would lose none of the inde- scribable charm with which it first entranced me . Indeed I shall attempt no description . I dare not bring my measurements here . Nay , it appears to me that the impression here does not ...
... thousand years , it would lose none of the inde- scribable charm with which it first entranced me . Indeed I shall attempt no description . I dare not bring my measurements here . Nay , it appears to me that the impression here does not ...
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... thousand inexpressible recollections - passed in the fond romance of youth , amid the holy si- lence of the fields and all the thick coming fancies of an unworn imagination and sensibility - all this moved me as no scene of mere ...
... thousand inexpressible recollections - passed in the fond romance of youth , amid the holy si- lence of the fields and all the thick coming fancies of an unworn imagination and sensibility - all this moved me as no scene of mere ...
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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 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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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...