Continental Adventures: A Novel ...Hurst & Robinson, 1826 |
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... the vale , and are seen down to their very base , -- lower and most dismal - looking heights immediately flank the Valais , above which the heads only of these giants of earth , ' tantalize the longing view THE VALAIS .
... the vale , and are seen down to their very base , -- lower and most dismal - looking heights immediately flank the Valais , above which the heads only of these giants of earth , ' tantalize the longing view THE VALAIS .
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... seen ; and seen too , under pecu- liar disadvantages . We passed beneath some very remarkable rocks , called the Diablerets , near a place called St. Pierre , and through several villages , but saw nothing very remarkable till we ...
... seen ; and seen too , under pecu- liar disadvantages . We passed beneath some very remarkable rocks , called the Diablerets , near a place called St. Pierre , and through several villages , but saw nothing very remarkable till we ...
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... seen a great deal of what we should call prudish re- serve and restraint in the manners of the Swiss women to the men- this seems perfectly incom- prehensible - yet so it is . At the village of Visp , we caught a view on the right down ...
... seen a great deal of what we should call prudish re- serve and restraint in the manners of the Swiss women to the men- this seems perfectly incom- prehensible - yet so it is . At the village of Visp , we caught a view on the right down ...
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... seen in the church of the neighbouring little village of Glis . In the Valais , both near Brieg and at Sierre , where we had stopped to breakfast , we went in- to many of the cottages , and were universally received by the kind peasants ...
... seen in the church of the neighbouring little village of Glis . In the Valais , both near Brieg and at Sierre , where we had stopped to breakfast , we went in- to many of the cottages , and were universally received by the kind peasants ...
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... seen what may make the untravelled stare --- rather than the real objects of travel , is the surest spur even to their Scavans --- for M. le Compte de Forbin tells us , in his travels in Egypt , that he was so annoyed and discomposed at ...
... seen what may make the untravelled stare --- rather than the real objects of travel , is the surest spur even to their Scavans --- for M. le Compte de Forbin tells us , in his travels in Egypt , that he was so annoyed and discomposed at ...
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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
Passagens conhecidas
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.