Over the Ocean: Or, Sights and Scenes in Foreign LandsLee and Shepard, 1872 - 558 Seiten The following pages are the record of the fruition of years of desire and anticipation; probably the same that fills the hearts of many who will read them-a tour in Europe. The habits of observation, acquired by many years' constant occupation as a journalist, were found by the author to have become almost second nature, even when the duties of that profession were thrown aside for simple gratification and enjoyment; consequently, during a journey of nearly seven months, which was enjoyed with all the zest of a first tour, the matter which composes this volume was prepared. Its original form was in a series of sketches in the columns of the Boston Commercial Bulletin. In these the writer attempted to give as vivid and exact an idea of the sights and scenes which he witnessed as could be conveyed to those who had never visited Europe. |
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Seite 40 - Not raised in nice proportions was the pile, But large and massy ; for duration built ; "With pillars crowded, and the roof upheld By naked rafters intricately crossed, Like leafless underboughs, in some thick wood, All withered by the depth of shade above.
Seite 67 - They entered now the chancel tall ; The darkened roof rose high aloof On pillars lofty and light and small: The keystone that locked each ribbed aisle Was a...
Seite 170 - Here's an acre sown indeed With the richest, royallest seed That the earth did e'er suck in Since the first man died for sin: Here the bones of birth have cried 'Though gods they were, as men they died!
Seite 40 - All withered by the depth of shade above. Admonitory texts inscribed the walls, Each, in its ornamental scroll, enclosed ; Each also crowned with winged heads — a pair Of rudely painted Cherubim. The floor Of nave and aisle, in unpretending guise, Was occupied by oaken benches ranged In seemly rows...
Seite 176 - Nobles and heralds, by your leave, Here lies what once was Matthew Prior, The son of Adam and of Eve : Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher ? " But, in this case, the old prejudice got the better of the old joke.
Seite 86 - Again ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not, forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths...
Seite 84 - Whiles glow'ring round wi prudent cares, Lest bogles catch him unawares: Kirk-Alloway was drawing nigh, Whare ghaists and houlets nightly cry. By this time he was cross the ford, Whare in the snaw the chapman smoor'd; And past the birks and meikle stane, Whare drunken Charlie brak's neck-bane; And thro...
Seite 491 - Once did She hold the gorgeous east in fee; And was the safeguard of the west: the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty. She was a maiden City, bright and free; No guile seduced, no force could violate; And, when she took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse the everlasting Sea. And what if she had seen those glories fade, Those titles...
Seite 83 - Fallen is the curtain; the last scene is o'er, The favorite actor treads life's stage no more. Oft lavish plaudits from the crowd he drew, And laughing eyes confessed his humor true. Here fond affection rears this sculptured stone, For virtues not enacted, but his own — A constancy unshaken unto death, A truth unswerving, and a Christian's faith. Who knew him best have cause to mourn him most; O, weep the man more than the actor lost. Unnumbered parts he played, yet to the end His best were those...
Seite 221 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corpse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet...
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