Old Wine in New Bottles; Or, Spare Hours of a Student in ParisJ. M'Glashan, 1849 - 332 páginas |
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... buildings . Fires . Fire Depart- Common Sewers 283 How do you like Paris ? ment . Water . XLII . Answer to " How do you like Paris ! " concluded . Religion . Utility of a Temporary Residence in Paris Cookery . · 289 XLIII . Flower ...
... buildings . Fires . Fire Depart- Common Sewers 283 How do you like Paris ? ment . Water . XLII . Answer to " How do you like Paris ! " concluded . Religion . Utility of a Temporary Residence in Paris Cookery . · 289 XLIII . Flower ...
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... building for a museum is now erecting . It is made of a soft native stone . The walls are made of the large pieces placed in proper order , but unhewn and almost shapeless . After these are erected , the stone is then worked and pillars ...
... building for a museum is now erecting . It is made of a soft native stone . The walls are made of the large pieces placed in proper order , but unhewn and almost shapeless . After these are erected , the stone is then worked and pillars ...
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... buildings are much finer than those in the city , though not pleasing to the American eye , ac- customed to white ... building a new or re- pairing an old one . The gardens , however , make up the deficiency . I visited several , one ...
... buildings are much finer than those in the city , though not pleasing to the American eye , ac- customed to white ... building a new or re- pairing an old one . The gardens , however , make up the deficiency . I visited several , one ...
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... building , though small . " They did " the Opera of La Dame Blanche , with an orchestra of thirty- three instruments , played finely . The singing was not so good as I expected . I have postponed my departure for Rouen till Saturday ...
... building , though small . " They did " the Opera of La Dame Blanche , with an orchestra of thirty- three instruments , played finely . The singing was not so good as I expected . I have postponed my departure for Rouen till Saturday ...
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... building , four hundred and fifty feet long , one hundred and ten wide , and to the top of the lanthorn , from the inside , two hundred feet . My first impressions were received by a visit made there in the night . The outside was not ...
... building , four hundred and fifty feet long , one hundred and ten wide , and to the top of the lanthorn , from the inside , two hundred feet . My first impressions were received by a visit made there in the night . The outside was not ...
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American balls beauty body Boston building celebrated character chiffonier church clothes College of France colour commenced Conciergerie contains Count of Paris crowd dance death disease dollars door dress edifice eight entirely erected eyes feet Felicien David flowers four France French friends galleries gardens girl give Gobelin Manufactory grand Grand Trianon guillotine hand head heart honour horses hospital hour hundred immense institution king labour ladies lectures letter live Louis Philippe Louis XIII Louis XIV marble Marie Antoinette ment Monsieur monument never o'clock Opera paintings palace Paris patients Paul Dubois peculiar Père la Chaise performed perhaps persons physician poor pounds present prison pupils quadrille remarkable royal seen side similar sous specimens stone streets taste thing thousand tion tomb twenty United walls waltz whole women young
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Página 103 - I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips : He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all.
Página 245 - Baulk'd are the courts, and contest is no more. Despairing quacks with curses fled the place, And vile attorneys, now a useless race.
Página 113 - Tis thou, thrice sweet and gracious goddess, addressing myself to LIBERTY, whom all in public or in private worship, whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till NATURE herself shall change no tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle...
Página v - The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Página 98 - ... of his woollen or silken thread to that part of the picture he is copying. The object of the process being to present as smooth and delicate a surface as possible, all cuttings and fastenings are performed at the back. Hence the necessity of his working on the wrong side.
Página 224 - Here the o'erloaded slave flings down his burden From his gall'd shoulders; and, when the stern tyrant, With all his guards and tools of power about him, Is meditating new unheard-of hardships, Mocks his short arm, and quick as thought escapes, Where tyrants vex not, and the weary rest.
Página 234 - Nor number, nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind Though single.
Página 45 - France, there is a market, whither young girls resort, and stand hour after hour, with their flowing hair, rich and glossy, deriving additional lustre from the contrast with their naked shoulders. This is the resort of the merchant barbers, some of whom come even from England. The merchants pass along among them, examine the color, texture, evenness, and other qualities of the beautiful fleece, haggle for a sou, and finally buy.
Página 53 - When a guinguette adds an orchestra and a ball-room to its other attractions, it is called a bastringue.