Europe, Through a Woman's EyeLutheran Publication Society, 1883 - 225 páginas |
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... ancient , new , curious , beautiful and interesting , yet we felt that it would take as many months to be- come familiar with it all . The Garden of the Tuileries being in close proximity to the Louvre , we upon one occasion took it in ...
... ancient , new , curious , beautiful and interesting , yet we felt that it would take as many months to be- come familiar with it all . The Garden of the Tuileries being in close proximity to the Louvre , we upon one occasion took it in ...
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... picturesque and varied scenery ; ancient ruined castles on rocky heights , charm- ing cascades , magnificent views of Mont Blanc , with its daz- zling snowy peaks , towering majestically in the distance . GENEVA TO CHAMOUNY . 27.
... picturesque and varied scenery ; ancient ruined castles on rocky heights , charm- ing cascades , magnificent views of Mont Blanc , with its daz- zling snowy peaks , towering majestically in the distance . GENEVA TO CHAMOUNY . 27.
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... ancient castle , with five towers , presents a pretty picture . It being the first of June , or opening of the season , many of the little villages where the boat halted were celebrating the day . The landing at Lausanne , was ...
... ancient castle , with five towers , presents a pretty picture . It being the first of June , or opening of the season , many of the little villages where the boat halted were celebrating the day . The landing at Lausanne , was ...
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... ancient Greek and Roman columns , which the people of Pisa captured in war , and many grand paintings add to the richness of its beauty . The elliptical dome is decorated with pictures , wrought in mosaic . In the right transept the ...
... ancient Greek and Roman columns , which the people of Pisa captured in war , and many grand paintings add to the richness of its beauty . The elliptical dome is decorated with pictures , wrought in mosaic . In the right transept the ...
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... ancient curiosities . Naples has a population of four hundred and fifty thousand eight hundred , and has one of the most lovely situations in the world , being built in the form of a crescent on the beautiful Bay of Naples . The lavish ...
... ancient curiosities . Naples has a population of four hundred and fifty thousand eight hundred , and has one of the most lovely situations in the world , being built in the form of a crescent on the beautiful Bay of Naples . The lavish ...
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Página 68 - AND after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them : and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
Página 218 - Retreating and beating and meeting and sheeting, Delaying and straying and playing and spraying, Advancing and prancing and glancing and dancing...
Página 31 - A sunbeam which hath lost its way, And through the crevice and the cleft Of the thick wall is fallen and left; Creeping o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor lamp...
Página 208 - The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, "Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
Página vii - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Página 32 - I ought to do — and did my best — And each did well in his degree. The youngest, whom my father loved, Because our mother's brow was given To him — with eyes as blue as heaven...
Página 149 - There is an acre sown with royal seed, the copy of the greatest change, from rich to naked, from ceiled roofs to arched coffins, from living like gods to die like men.
Página 74 - To see it crumbling there, an inch a year; its walls and arches overgrown with green; its corridors open to the day; the long grass growing in its porches ; young trees of yesterday, springing up on its ragged parapets, and bearing fruit: chance produce of the seeds dropped there by the birds who...
Página 149 - Here's an acre sown indeed With the richest, royal'st seed, That the earth did e'er suck in Since the first man died for sin; Here the bones of birth have cried, "Though gods they were, as men they died"; Here are sands, ignoble things Dropt from the ruin'd sides of kings.
Página 149 - Sleep within these heaps of stones: Here they lie, had realms and lands, Who now want strength to stir their hands: Where from their pulpits seal'd with dust They preach, 'In greatness is no trust.