Continental Adventures: A Novel ...Hurst & Robinson, 1826 |
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2. oldal
... called , par excellence , from being the longest , broadest , and most consequential , -or , as a Frenchman this morning assured me , the most respectable of all the valleys of Switzerland - the valley of its greatest river , the Rhone ...
... called , par excellence , from being the longest , broadest , and most consequential , -or , as a Frenchman this morning assured me , the most respectable of all the valleys of Switzerland - the valley of its greatest river , the Rhone ...
4. oldal
... called the Diablerets , near a place called St. Pierre , and through several villages , but saw nothing very remarkable till we reached Sion- a very curious old place , and extremely pictu- resque . Its antiquity is high ; for , not ...
... called the Diablerets , near a place called St. Pierre , and through several villages , but saw nothing very remarkable till we reached Sion- a very curious old place , and extremely pictu- resque . Its antiquity is high ; for , not ...
6. oldal
... called Le Bas Valais- and above it , Le Haut Valais . Now Le Haut Valais is much superior to Le Bas Valais - and as we left it behind us , its miserable French Patois , its dirt , its poverty , its knavery , and its population of ...
... called Le Bas Valais- and above it , Le Haut Valais . Now Le Haut Valais is much superior to Le Bas Valais - and as we left it behind us , its miserable French Patois , its dirt , its poverty , its knavery , and its population of ...
10. oldal
... called Murus Viberius , built to restrain the inroads of the Viberi— then the unconquered inhabitants of the head of the wild and wide Valais , and of the neigh- bouring Alps . We saw considerably more striking remains of it afterwards ...
... called Murus Viberius , built to restrain the inroads of the Viberi— then the unconquered inhabitants of the head of the wild and wide Valais , and of the neigh- bouring Alps . We saw considerably more striking remains of it afterwards ...
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... of the mountain , but through one of the numerous deep precipitous ravines , or Cols , as they are called , generally formed by the course of a tor- VOL . III . 2 rent , which , like cracks in their sides , THE SIMPLON . 13.
... of the mountain , but through one of the numerous deep precipitous ravines , or Cols , as they are called , generally formed by the course of a tor- VOL . III . 2 rent , which , like cracks in their sides , THE SIMPLON . 13.
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agony Alps asked banditti beautiful Bellairs Blue Devils boat Breadal Breadalbane Brieg Cadenabbia Caroline St Caroline's Chiavenna child Choiseul Clair Cleve Colonel Cleveland Count Montini countenance daughter dear deep delight Diogenes dreadful dress English escape exclaimed eyes father feelings felt Florence Grindelwald hand happiness head heard heart heaven honour hope Hunlocke's instantly Italian Italy knew Lady Hunlocke Lady Montfort Lady St lake Lake Lugano Lake of Como land laughing learnt letter Lindsay Lindsay's look Lord Lumbercourt Lord Montfort Lord Roslin Lord Setoun lover Lugano M'cMuckleman Margaret St marriage marry Milan mind misery Miss Emily Harriet Miss St morning mountains never night once party pass passion Porlezza promise refuse road robbers Sbirri scarcely scene seemed shew smile soon Swiss tell thing thou thought tion told tone tree utter Valais village voice wife woman words
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78. oldal - She that has that is clad in complete steel ; And, like a quiver'd nymph, with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds, Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity...
52. oldal - O'er other creatures. Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
283. oldal - Kept the word of promise to the ear, But broke it to the hope.
78. oldal - Chi va lontan da la sua patria, vede cose, da quel che già credea, lontane; che narrandole poi, non se gli crede, e stimato bugiardo ne rimane: che '1 sciocco vulgo non gli vuol dar fede, se non le vede e tocca chiare e piane.
184. oldal - Ah me ! for aught that ever I could read, Could ever hear by tale or hiftory, The courfe of true love never did run fmooth : But, either it was different in blood ; Her. O crofs ! too high to be enthrall'd to low ! Lyf.
196. oldal - Not to a rage : patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once : her smiles and tears
70. oldal - Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright, and coy; We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill, Still it eludes us, and it glitters still : If seiz'd at last, compute your mighty gains ; What is it, but rank poison in your veins...
162. oldal - Ay, now am I in Arden; the more fool I; when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travelers must be content.
53. oldal - Though higher of the genial bed by far, And with mysterious reverence I deem, So much delights me, as those graceful acts, Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions...
1. oldal - Bears me remote, o'er Gallia's woody bounds, O'er the cloud-piercing Alps remote ; beyond The vale of Arno purpled with the vine, Beyond the Umbrian and Etruscan hills, To Latium's wide champain, forlorn and waste, Where yellow Tiber his neglected wave Mournfully rolls.