Buckeye Abroad: Or, Wanderings in Europe and in the OrientFollett, Foster and Company, 1859 - 444 стор. |
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... The villas with which London stands begirt Like a swarth Indian , with his belt of beads , " forms its own horizon of houses , while whole cities lie beyond . From St. Paul's , whence we viewed the city , the beautiful parks were ...
... The villas with which London stands begirt Like a swarth Indian , with his belt of beads , " forms its own horizon of houses , while whole cities lie beyond . From St. Paul's , whence we viewed the city , the beautiful parks were ...
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A Buckeye Abroad: Or, Wanderings in Europe, and in the Orient Samuel Sullivan Cox Повний перегляд - 1860 |
A Buckeye Abroad: Or, Wanderings in Europe, and in the Orient Samuel Sullivan Cox Повний перегляд - 1852 |
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Acropolis adorned American amid amidst ancient arches Athens Austria beauty boat Bosphorus castle Chatsworth church columns Constantinople Corfu crowd Crystal Palace dome dressed earth elegant England English feet flowers Fountain Abbey France French gallery gardens genius Genoa glacier glittering glory golden Gothic grace Greece green heart heaven hills houses human immense isle Italy ladies land light lofty Lombardy look marble miles mind Mont Blanc monument mountain Naples Napoleon nature noble painting palace passed Peter's Pireus Pompeii prison Protestantism Prussia Queen repose rise rocks Rome ruins scene seems seen shadow shore side Smyrna soldiers soul spirit splendid spot stand steamer stone strange streets sublimity Sultan surrounded sweet Tarpeian Rock temple thing thousand tion tomb towers trees vale valley Venice walk walls wonder
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Сторінка 413 - The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, "Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
Сторінка 144 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Сторінка 210 - The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse; Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires
Сторінка 203 - God that made the world, and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands...
Сторінка 254 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light!
Сторінка 433 - When all is done (he concludes), human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with, and humoured a little, to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Сторінка 299 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Сторінка 125 - But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone — with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook his former city, what could be, Of earthly structures, in his honour piled, Of a sublimer aspect ? Majesty, Power, Glory, Strength, and Beauty, all are aisled In this eternal ark of worship undefiled.
Сторінка 241 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Сторінка 434 - Ever drifting, drifting, drifting On the shifting Currents of the restless heart; Till at length in books recorded, They, like hoarded Household words, no more depart.