Change of air, or, The philosophy of travelling; autumnal excursions through France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Belgium1831 |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 48
Seite 4
... winds up , in the end , with an early failure of the mental powers . Now modern education , male and female , has a constant ten- dency to do that artificially , which Nature , in a capricious mood , sometimes does voluntarily ; -namely ...
... winds up , in the end , with an early failure of the mental powers . Now modern education , male and female , has a constant ten- dency to do that artificially , which Nature , in a capricious mood , sometimes does voluntarily ; -namely ...
Seite 20
... winds unfurl'd , Looks from his throne of clouds o'er half the world . This variety of impression from same or similar objects , is not peculiar to poets , but is found among writers of every class . Camper wrote a very amusing and ...
... winds unfurl'd , Looks from his throne of clouds o'er half the world . This variety of impression from same or similar objects , is not peculiar to poets , but is found among writers of every class . Camper wrote a very amusing and ...
Seite 28
... wind and rain came on us , without a quarter of an hour's notice , and we were drenched to the skin in a very few minutes . Some of the party cer- tainly turned tail ; and one Hypochondriac nearly threw me over a precipice , while ...
... wind and rain came on us , without a quarter of an hour's notice , and we were drenched to the skin in a very few minutes . Some of the party cer- tainly turned tail ; and one Hypochondriac nearly threw me over a precipice , while ...
Seite 35
... winds and rains - her stage- waggons , y'cleped Diligences , " are loco - motive prisons or pontons , in which the traveller is pressed , pounded , and , what is worse than all , poisoned with mephitic gases and noxious exhalations ...
... winds and rains - her stage- waggons , y'cleped Diligences , " are loco - motive prisons or pontons , in which the traveller is pressed , pounded , and , what is worse than all , poisoned with mephitic gases and noxious exhalations ...
Seite 42
... winds up and along precipices - through magnifi- cent forests of beech and pine - the rivulets are heard foaming over ledges of rock - while innumerable alpine shrubs and flowers unfold their varying tints and hues to Summer suns and ...
... winds up and along precipices - through magnifi- cent forests of beech and pine - the rivulets are heard foaming over ledges of rock - while innumerable alpine shrubs and flowers unfold their varying tints and hues to Summer suns and ...
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
Beliebte Passagen
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.