Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Holland, Belgium, and the RhineThos. Cook&Son, 1874 - 179 Seiten |
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Cook's Tourists' Handbook for Holland, Belgium, and the Rhine (1880) Cook And Son Thomas Cook and Son,Thomas Cook Publishing Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2008 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abound Aix-la-Chapelle Amsterdam ancient Andernach Antwerp Baden banks Basle beautiful Belgium Bingen Bishop Black Forest boat bridge Bruges Brussels building canals castle Cathedral celebrated century chapel Charlemagne charming Church of St Class and Fore Class and Saloon Coblentz Cologne contains COOK & SON Cook's cross curious Duke Dutch English excursions famous feet finest Flemish Fore Cabin France Frankfort French gardens German Grand Hotel ground Hague Harwich Heidelberg Holland Homburg Hotel Coupons Hougomont hour houses inhabitants interest journey King lace legend London LUDGATE CIRCUS magnificent Mayence Metz miles monument Museum neighbourhood Ostend paintings Palace pass picturesque Population Prussia Quentin Matsys railway remarkable Rhine river Roman Rotterdam route Rubens ruin scene Second Class seen station Steamers stone story Strassburg streets THOMAS COOK Tickets tomb Tour tourist tower town traveller trees Verviers viâ villages walls Waterloo Wiesbaden
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 55 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Seite 61 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Seite 79 - The river nobly foams and flows, The charm of this enchanted ground, And all its thousand turns disclose Some fresher beauty varying round : The haughtiest breast its wish might bound Through life to dwell delighted here ; Nor could on earth a spot be found To nature and to me so dear, Could thy dear eyes in following mine Still sweeten more these banks of Rhine ! LVI. By Coblentz, on a rise of gentle ground, There is a small and simple pyramid, Crowning the summit of the verdant mound ; Beneath...
Seite 55 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Seite 36 - THE BELFRY OF BRUGES. IN the market-place of Bruges stands the belfry old and brown; Thrice consumed and thrice rebuilded, still it watches o'er the town. As the summer morn was breaking, on that lofty tower I stood, And the world threw off the darkness, like the weeds of widowhood. Thick with towns and hamlets studded, and with streams and vapors gray, Like a shield embossed with silver, round and vast the landscape lay.
Seite 110 - tis an excellent bonfire!" quoth he; "And the country is greatly obliged to me For ridding it, in these times forlorn, Of rats that only consume the corn." So then to his palace returned he, And he sat down to supper merrily, And he slept that night like an innocent man; But Bishop Hatto never slept again. In the morning, as he...
Seite 35 - IN the ancient town of Bruges, In the quaint old Flemish city, As the evening shades descended, Low and loud and sweetly blended, Low at times and loud at times, And changing like a poet's rhymes, Rang the beautiful wild chimes From the Belfry in the market Of the ancient town of Bruges.
Seite 86 - And forever and forever, As long as the river flows, As long as the heart has passions, As long as life has woes ; The moon and its broken reflection And its shadows shall appear, As the symbol of love in heaven, And its wavering image here.
Seite 110 - He listened and looked ; it was only the cat ; But the Bishop he grew more fearful for that ; For she sat screaming, mad with fear At the army of rats that were drawing near.
Seite 85 - Like the odour of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. And I think how many thousands Of care-encumbered men, Each bearing his burden of sorrow, Have crossed the bridge since then.