Notes of Traveller: During a Tour Through England, France, and Switzerland, in 1828G. & C. & H. Carvill, Broadway. Clark & Raser, printers., 1831 - 264 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 16
Página 95
... road , which was ex- cellent , passed through one of the most rich and cultivated countries I had ever seen . The thorn hedges in bloom , crossing the country in every direction - the neat farm- houses - sloping , even hills , and ...
... road , which was ex- cellent , passed through one of the most rich and cultivated countries I had ever seen . The thorn hedges in bloom , crossing the country in every direction - the neat farm- houses - sloping , even hills , and ...
Página 121
... road was de- lightful . For many miles out of Manchester it passed through a continuous village ; the country then becomes hilly , and the inha- bitants clustered together into small neat towns ; the soil being generally possessed by ...
... road was de- lightful . For many miles out of Manchester it passed through a continuous village ; the country then becomes hilly , and the inha- bitants clustered together into small neat towns ; the soil being generally possessed by ...
Página 122
... road passed over the hills , the prospect was perfectly novel the little farms cut up into small patches , by the hedge - rows and stone fencing , looked exactly like a dissected map . The high grounds are cul- tivated to the very ...
... road passed over the hills , the prospect was perfectly novel the little farms cut up into small patches , by the hedge - rows and stone fencing , looked exactly like a dissected map . The high grounds are cul- tivated to the very ...
Página 123
... roads are continually winding , and the view shut in by groves and hedges , the eye is delighted by a continual succession of small landscapes of captivating loveliness . Every thing seems to be the growth of ages of regular and ...
... roads are continually winding , and the view shut in by groves and hedges , the eye is delighted by a continual succession of small landscapes of captivating loveliness . Every thing seems to be the growth of ages of regular and ...
Página 137
... road side , have a little flower garden , surrounded by a hedge , before the door , and a num- ber of exotick plants in boxes in the windows , sometimes forming a per- fect bank of flowers . In many in- stances , M 2 137 Doncaster, a ...
... road side , have a little flower garden , surrounded by a hedge , before the door , and a num- ber of exotick plants in boxes in the windows , sometimes forming a per- fect bank of flowers . In many in- stances , M 2 137 Doncaster, a ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Notes of a Traveller: During a Tour Through England, France, and Switzerland ... Jacob Green Pré-visualização indisponível - 2016 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
afternoon America animals appearance Battle of Waterloo beautiful Blenheim Park blue breakfast called church coach colour crowd curiosity dark delightful dinner distance Duke Eaton Hall England English examined exceedingly exhibited favourable feet finest gallery garden glass gratified gulf stream Hall heard ianthina interesting June kind ladies light Liverpool London Lord Lord Grosvenor magnificent Matlock ments miles molluscous monument morning neat night o'clock objects occasion orange colour paintings palace Park passed passengers Paul's peterel phosphorescence pleasure post chaise present publick buildings remarkable river round ruins sail sailors scene seemed seen ship shore sion Somerset House spar splendid stone street supposed surrounded Temple Bar Thames thing thought tion tivate to-day Tower town vast Vauxhall gardens velella vessel wall Warwick vase waves weather whole wind
Passagens conhecidas
Página 130 - 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 74 - O'er youth's bright locks, and beauty's flowery crown, — Yet must thou hear a voice — restore the dead ! Earth shall reclaim her precious things from thee ! — Restore the dead, thou sea ! BRING FLOWERS.
Página 255 - Where — taming thought to human pride !The mighty chiefs sleep side by side. Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, ' Here let their discord with them die. Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen...
Página 173 - And everybody praised the duke, Who such a fight did win." "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he; "But 'twas a famous victory.
Página 116 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 216 - Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.
Página 122 - Gothic tower, its windows rich with tracery and painted glass in scrupulous preservation ; its stately monuments of warriors and worthies of the olden time, ancestors of the present lords of the soil ; its tombstones, recording successive generations of sturdy yeomanry whose progeny still plough the same fields and kneel at the same altar ; the parsonage, a quaint, irregular pile, partly antiquated, but repaired and altered in the tastes of...
Página 238 - MIDNIGHT, and yet no eye Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep ! Behold her streets a-blaze With light that seems to kindle the red sky, Her myriads swarming through the crowded ways ! Master and slave, old age and infancy. All, all abroad to gaze...
Página 50 - ... regions of the north all the luxuries of the south; has diffused the light of knowledge and the charities of cultivated life ; and has thus bound together those scattered portions of the human race, between which nature seemed to have thrown an insurmountable barrier. We one day descried some shapeless object drifting at a distance. At sea everything that breaks the monotony of the surrounding expanse attracts attention.
Página 121 - The great charm, however, of English scenery is the moral feeling that seems to pervade it. It is associated in the mind with ideas of order, of quiet, of sober, well-established principles, of hoary usage and reverend custom. Every thing seems to be the growth of ages of regular and peaceful existence.