Continental Adventures: A Novel ...Hurst & Robinson, 1826 |
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... beautiful - the romantic -- the grand - and the sublime -- scenery of the Valais ; -of the majestic Rhone , rolling down his broad rapid tide , between two lofty chains of the mighty Alps , through a valley of the most en- chanting ...
... beautiful - the romantic -- the grand - and the sublime -- scenery of the Valais ; -of the majestic Rhone , rolling down his broad rapid tide , between two lofty chains of the mighty Alps , through a valley of the most en- chanting ...
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... beautiful river , and sometimes its bed oozed through a marsh - sometimes spread- ing far and wide , it left vast heaps and islands of bare slimy whitened shingle . It is true that it flows down its valley between two ranges of the high ...
... beautiful river , and sometimes its bed oozed through a marsh - sometimes spread- ing far and wide , it left vast heaps and islands of bare slimy whitened shingle . It is true that it flows down its valley between two ranges of the high ...
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... beautiful , as it displays . Much did we regret the rapidity with which we de- scended through it . But who can describe the effect of our arrival at Duomo D'Ossola — of the luxuriant richness and beauty of the country , teeming with ...
... beautiful , as it displays . Much did we regret the rapidity with which we de- scended through it . But who can describe the effect of our arrival at Duomo D'Ossola — of the luxuriant richness and beauty of the country , teeming with ...
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... beautiful part - that ' Ita- ly is a paradise inhabited by demons . ' But we must hope that the demons only inhabit its ex- tremities the foot of the Alps and the shores of Naples . We shall find angels in the middle of it , I make no ...
... beautiful part - that ' Ita- ly is a paradise inhabited by demons . ' But we must hope that the demons only inhabit its ex- tremities the foot of the Alps and the shores of Naples . We shall find angels in the middle of it , I make no ...
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... beautiful shores of the Lago Maggiore , admiring the variety of new productions that met our astonished sight ; -the fields of ripened maize , the vines twining their luxuriant branches loaded with rich clus- ters , round the supporting ...
... beautiful shores of the Lago Maggiore , admiring the variety of new productions that met our astonished sight ; -the fields of ripened maize , the vines twining their luxuriant branches loaded with rich clus- ters , round the supporting ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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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Página 78 - 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...
Página 52 - 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.
Página 283 - Kept the word of promise to the ear, But broke it to the hope.
Página 78 - 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.
Página 184 - 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.
Página 196 - 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
Página 70 - 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...
Página 162 - 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.
Página 53 - 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...
Página 1 - 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.