Change of air, or, The philosophy of travelling; autumnal excursions through France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Belgium1831 |
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... description is now quite out of the question -and from description he has generally abstained . Im- pressions and reflections will continue to be varied , till the minds and features of human beings become similar to each.
... description is now quite out of the question -and from description he has generally abstained . Im- pressions and reflections will continue to be varied , till the minds and features of human beings become similar to each.
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... human con- stitution , mental and corporeal , may prove useful to those who wander or sojourn on the classic soil of Italy , for any of the above purposes ; -while the reflections which he has hazarded on the moral effects of foreign ...
... human con- stitution , mental and corporeal , may prove useful to those who wander or sojourn on the classic soil of Italy , for any of the above purposes ; -while the reflections which he has hazarded on the moral effects of foreign ...
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... human beings in murky vapour . Imagi- nation is always active , and memory is her prompter . Thirty years had rolled away since the same metropolis first burst on my view , in an opposite direction . Alas , how changed were my feelings ...
... human beings in murky vapour . Imagi- nation is always active , and memory is her prompter . Thirty years had rolled away since the same metropolis first burst on my view , in an opposite direction . Alas , how changed were my feelings ...
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... human existence , with infinitely more work of the head than of the body . Yet there is a certain limit to this disproportion between mental and corporeal action , beyond which we cannot go without offering a violence to Na- ture ...
... human existence , with infinitely more work of the head than of the body . Yet there is a certain limit to this disproportion between mental and corporeal action , beyond which we cannot go without offering a violence to Na- ture ...
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... human pyramids that have withstood , somewhat longer than usual , the extra wear and tear of avocation . The actuary and the statistical enquirer may tell us that the duration of human life is greater now than it was a century ago ...
... human pyramids that have withstood , somewhat longer than usual , the extra wear and tear of avocation . The actuary and the statistical enquirer may tell us that the duration of human life is greater now than it was a century ago ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Alps ancient animal Apennines arch atmosphere Baveno beautiful body Cæsar Campagna Capitol carriage cliffs climate CLOACINA countenance cretinism descended earth EFFECTS OF TRAVELLING England English Eternal City excitement exercise feelings fertile Florence France French Geneva Genoa gloomy goitre Heaven hills houses human imagination impressions influence inhabitants intellectual invalid Italian Italy journey Jura Jura Mountains labour Lady Morgan lake Lake of Geneva less magnificent maladies malaria marble Martigny mental miles mind modern Mont Blanc moral mountains Naples nature neighbouring never Nice night objects palaces Paris pass pellagra physical Pisa plains pleasure Pompeii Pontine Marshes precipices present Radicofani Rhone road rocks Roman Rome ruins scene scenery seen shew shores side sight Simplon skies snow stream streets summit surface temple THERMÆ thing thousand Tiber tion torrent tower town tramontane valley Vaud villages WEAR and TEAR whole winds wonder
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Seite 221 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight. Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Seite 20 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity...
Seite 12 - He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Seite 202 - In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek and bay, And islands that empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light, And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land.
Seite 12 - tis true, this god did shake : His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried ' Give me some drink, Titinius,
Seite 279 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Seite 252 - Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee ; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Seite 2 - Twas his the vast and trackless Deep to rove : Alternate change of Climates has he known, And felt the fierce extremes of either zone, Where polar Skies congeal th...
Seite 128 - ... of Roman citizens. That distinction was generally considered either as a legal qualification or as a proper recompense for the soldier; but a more serious regard was paid to the essential merit of age, strength, and military stature. In all levies, a just preference was given to the climates of the North over those of the South...
Seite 44 - No, never shall I lose the trace Of what I've felt in this bright place. And, should my spirit's hope grow weak, Should I, oh God, e'er doubt thy power, This mighty scene again I'll seek, At the same calm and glowing hour, And here, at the sublimest shrine That Nature ever rear'd to Thee, Rekindle all that hope divine, And feel my immortality ! EXTRACT II.