Cook's tourist's handbook to Switzerland

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Seite 141 - 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.
Seite 132 - Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction : once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved.
Seite 140 - Clarens ! sweet Clarens, birthplace of deep Love ! Thine air is the young breath of passionate thought ; Thy trees take root in Love ; the snows above The very Glaciers have his colours caught, And sun-set into rose-hues sees them wrought By rays which sleep there lovingly...
Seite 132 - Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face, The mirror where the stars and mountains view The stillness of their aspect in each trace Its clear depth yields of their far height and hue...
Seite 15 - The Land of the Pharaohs. Egypt and Sinai. Illustrated by Pen and Pencil. By Rev.
Seite 23 - ... and how, ever and anon, startling you with its white flash, a jet of spray leaps hissing out of the fall, like a rocket, bursting in the wind and driven away in dust, filling the air with light ; and how, through the curdling wreaths of the...
Seite 19 - They are, therefore, prepared to conduct large or small parties in the most comfortable manner through the country ; to Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, the Jordan, Damascus, Sinai, &c.
Seite 16 - Cook's Handbook to Venice, Price is. "With Plan. Cook's Handbook to Florence. Price Is. With Plan. Cook's Tourists' Guide to Northern Italy. Price 4s. With Maps. Cook's Tourists

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