A Bundle of Letters from Over the SeaCupples, 1889 - 294 páginas |
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... pretty maid , with a demi - trained white cambric dress on , to wait upon us , look- ing as fresh as a daisy . After breakfast , we went to drive about the city , the largest sea- port in the world . The docks are many miles in length ...
... pretty maid , with a demi - trained white cambric dress on , to wait upon us , look- ing as fresh as a daisy . After breakfast , we went to drive about the city , the largest sea- port in the world . The docks are many miles in length ...
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... pretty chapel here , and in the transept a monument to the revered Dr. Thomas Arnold . One of the stained - glass windows is also in memory of him , and the words beneath it seemed to me particularly touching and appropriate : - ' And ...
... pretty chapel here , and in the transept a monument to the revered Dr. Thomas Arnold . One of the stained - glass windows is also in memory of him , and the words beneath it seemed to me particularly touching and appropriate : - ' And ...
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... pretty homes , cultivated fields , and flowers and ivy everywhere before and around us , made us eagerly drink all in as a sweet nectar . And , more than all , the entire way was clothed with historic interest . We could easily imagine ...
... pretty homes , cultivated fields , and flowers and ivy everywhere before and around us , made us eagerly drink all in as a sweet nectar . And , more than all , the entire way was clothed with historic interest . We could easily imagine ...
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... train would get us to London to - night , we paid our bills , took our bags , bade good - by to the pretty Spa and our pleasant landlady , and were soon off . LETTER III . EDWARDS HOTEL , GEORGE ST . , 28 A BUNDLE OF LETTERS .
... train would get us to London to - night , we paid our bills , took our bags , bade good - by to the pretty Spa and our pleasant landlady , and were soon off . LETTER III . EDWARDS HOTEL , GEORGE ST . , 28 A BUNDLE OF LETTERS .
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... ' is a small room , presided over by two pretty young ladies , who I imagine look upon us as intruders , but I talk at them so much , they are obliged to speak occasionally , although it seems an effort . They drop their h's.
... ' is a small room , presided over by two pretty young ladies , who I imagine look upon us as intruders , but I talk at them so much , they are obliged to speak occasionally , although it seems an effort . They drop their h's.
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American Amsterdam Antwerp artists asked Baden beautiful Black Forest blue boats Boston bright carriage castle cathedral Chamouni church Clement Marot Cologne colors costumes crowded dear delight dinner dress drive English exquisite faces feel flowers France French friends galleries gardens gentleman German gilt girl gold grand handsome hear horses Interlaken J. G. Cupples King ladies lake Lake Lucerne land LETTER live look lovely magnificent marble Marie Antoinette Marie de Medici Martigny morning mountain mules never paintings palace Paris parks Paul Veronese pleasant pretty Queen rest Rhine rich ride Rigi river royal scenery seats seemed seen sight soon station statues steamer stone streets sure sweet Swiss Guard Switzerland table d'hôte tell thought to-day told took towers town travelling Utrecht Victor Hugo walked woman women wonderful young
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Página 160 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Página 14 - JESUS shall reign where'er the sun Does his successive journeys run ; His kingdom stretch from shore to shore, Till moons shall wax and wane no more.
Página 18 - Thomas, because thou hast seen thou hast believed ; blessed are they who have not seen, and yet have believed...
Página 41 - WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight; Ere the evening lamps...
Página 60 - To tell of thy loving-kindness early in the morning, and of thy truth in the night season ; 3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the lute ; upon a loud instrument, and upon the harp: 4 For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy works; and I will rejoice in giving praise for the operations of thy hands.
Página 20 - Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust enclosed heare. Blese be ye man that spares thes stones. And curst be he that moves my bones.
Página 43 - ... and sickening for ever, and brave lives dashed away about the rattling beach like weeds for ever; and still at the helm of every lonely boat, through starless night and hopeless dawn, His hand, who spread the fisher's net over the dust of the Sidonian palaces, and gave into the fisher's hand the keys of the kingdom of heaven.
Página 91 - Mother, may I go out to swim? Yes, my darling daughter. Hang your clothes on a hickory limb and don't go near the water.