Continental Adventures: A Novel ...Hurst & Robinson, 1826 |
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6. oldal
... and its population of Goitres and Cretins , gradually disappeared , and clean honest looking faces and old German speeches , saluted our eyes and our ears . Difference of language generally marks a difference of people , 6 THE VALAIS .
... and its population of Goitres and Cretins , gradually disappeared , and clean honest looking faces and old German speeches , saluted our eyes and our ears . Difference of language generally marks a difference of people , 6 THE VALAIS .
7. oldal
... faces and waddling ungainly figures , as both men and women exhibit in the Valais , did I never behold ! Yet these are the people about whose beauty and native grace Rousseau makes such a phrase ! To be sure , from one end of the Valais ...
... faces and waddling ungainly figures , as both men and women exhibit in the Valais , did I never behold ! Yet these are the people about whose beauty and native grace Rousseau makes such a phrase ! To be sure , from one end of the Valais ...
9. oldal
... face of the pre- cipice , is said to require a true Swiss head to accomplish . You would not expect to find a fashionable watering - place up such a savage gorge as this ? —And yet here are the baths of Leuk , where I am told ladies and ...
... face of the pre- cipice , is said to require a true Swiss head to accomplish . You would not expect to find a fashionable watering - place up such a savage gorge as this ? —And yet here are the baths of Leuk , where I am told ladies and ...
13. oldal
... face 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.
... face 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.
17. oldal
... face of nature and the human face divine ? Who can describe the effect of the first view of Italy ? It is like a new existence- another world ! Yes ! Italy - Italy is before us ! We are standing on its rich and glorious plains ! Three ...
... face of nature and the human face divine ? Who can describe the effect of the first view of Italy ? It is like a new existence- another world ! Yes ! Italy - Italy is before us ! We are standing on its rich and glorious plains ! Three ...
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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.