Continental Adventures: A Novel ...Hurst & Robinson, 1826 |
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... travelled , except when and where they were obliged to take une voyage , ' — an ope- ration which is to this day ... travellers in the world . Far from making it their aim to observe accurately , and describe correctly , what they ...
... travelled , except when and where they were obliged to take une voyage , ' — an ope- ration which is to this day ... travellers in the world . Far from making it their aim to observe accurately , and describe correctly , what they ...
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... travelling ten hours from Brieg to Duomo d'Ossola , over the Alps , with only one rest at the village of Simplon , on the top of the pass , where we dined . We reached Duomo d'Ossola by six o'clock . Three people , who were travelling ...
... travelling ten hours from Brieg to Duomo d'Ossola , over the Alps , with only one rest at the village of Simplon , on the top of the pass , where we dined . We reached Duomo d'Ossola by six o'clock . Three people , who were travelling ...
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... find that I could not look down into Italy , as Hannibal did of old - and many other modern travellers say they have done , and as I fully expected to do . But no such thing is to be done - no Italy appears . From the 16 THE SIMPLON .
... find that I could not look down into Italy , as Hannibal did of old - and many other modern travellers say they have done , and as I fully expected to do . But no such thing is to be done - no Italy appears . From the 16 THE SIMPLON .
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... travellers to pursue their journey , and resume the thread of Mr. Lindsay's history , whom we left in the tower of the old castle in Ober Engadine , in the power of that mysterious being who had so lately been the means of endangering ...
... travellers to pursue their journey , and resume the thread of Mr. Lindsay's history , whom we left in the tower of the old castle in Ober Engadine , in the power of that mysterious being who had so lately been the means of endangering ...
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... travellers - but for Lady Hunlocke . · Che Cosa ? ' demanded the astonished Came- riere . * ' Curse her ! Do you dare to curse her ? ' was angrily articulated in a broad Scotch accent , while a gaunt long visaged physiognomy , and ...
... travellers - but for Lady Hunlocke . · Che Cosa ? ' demanded the astonished Came- riere . * ' Curse her ! Do you dare to curse her ? ' was angrily articulated in a broad Scotch accent , while a gaunt long visaged physiognomy , and ...
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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
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.