Letters from Europe: During a Tour Through Switzerland and Italy, in the Years 1801 and 1802, Volumen 1author, 1805 |
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... hundred Skeletons , whose distorted at- titudes bespeak horrific triumph , lead up , in melancholy duet , the reluctant victims of the King of Terrors . It was here , by the light of flaring torches , in the court - yard of an ...
... hundred Skeletons , whose distorted at- titudes bespeak horrific triumph , lead up , in melancholy duet , the reluctant victims of the King of Terrors . It was here , by the light of flaring torches , in the court - yard of an ...
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... hundred feet wide , and pours itself with thundering impetuosity over a ledge of broken rocks , forty or fifty feet high . In time of floods the water sometimes rises twenty or thir- ty feet , and the current then exhibits a rumbling ...
... hundred feet wide , and pours itself with thundering impetuosity over a ledge of broken rocks , forty or fifty feet high . In time of floods the water sometimes rises twenty or thir- ty feet , and the current then exhibits a rumbling ...
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... hundred and forty feet over , was destroyed by the French . It was covered with a hange werk or pent - house , as usual in Switzerland — a style of finish totally destructive of picturesque effect . But it must have been the widest arch ...
... hundred and forty feet over , was destroyed by the French . It was covered with a hange werk or pent - house , as usual in Switzerland — a style of finish totally destructive of picturesque effect . But it must have been the widest arch ...
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... upon the distant horizon . The public walk rises a hundred feet perpendicular , over the rimpling stream ; yet we were told that a Man had once fallen from from the parapet - or jumped over it- without breaking 46 AMERICAN LETTERS.
... upon the distant horizon . The public walk rises a hundred feet perpendicular , over the rimpling stream ; yet we were told that a Man had once fallen from from the parapet - or jumped over it- without breaking 46 AMERICAN LETTERS.
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... hundred a year . But the proud Philosopher re- fused the princely boon , with as much haughtiness as Diogenes himself ; when the inhabitant of a tub - whose only fur- niture was a porringer , desired Alexan- der not to stand in his ...
... hundred a year . But the proud Philosopher re- fused the princely boon , with as much haughtiness as Diogenes himself ; when the inhabitant of a tub - whose only fur- niture was a porringer , desired Alexan- der not to stand in his ...
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Altar ancient Antiquity Apartments Appian Arcades Arch Arch of Trajan ascend Baiocc Bas Reliefs Baths of Caracalla Baths of Titus beautiful bronze Cæsar Cardinal Ceiling celebrated ceremony Chamber Chapel Christ Christian Church Coach Colonnade Columns Corridor Court cross descend Dome Domenichino door Edifice Egyptian elevation Emperor Entablature erected exhibits feet diameter fifty feet French Gallery gate Guercino Hall hand head Holy hundred feet Imperial inscriptions Italian Italy Julius Cæsar kneeling lake magnificent ment Michael Angelo miles modern mosaic mountain Nave Obelisk ornamented painted Painter Palace Papal Paul pavement Peter's Pietro da Cortona Pius Pius VI Pontifical Pope Portico Priest Prince Raphael richly Roman Rome Rotunda Saint Scipio Sculpture seen side Sixtus square Stair-case Statues stone Story streets sublimity supported surrounded Switzerland Temple ther thousand tion tomb town twenty Tyber Unterwalden vault venerable Villa Adriana village Virgin walls Zurich
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Página 228 - Therefore thus saith the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
Página 436 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Página 212 - A woman clothed with the sun, having the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
Página 349 - And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost' and altogetherv such as I am, except these bonds.
Página 173 - For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
Página 208 - Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona ; for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Página 184 - Yet hear, alas ! this mournful truth, Nor hear it with a frown ; — Thou canst not make the tea so fast As I can gulp it down.
Página 109 - Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms ; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more.
Página 34 - Tell's exploit of shooting the apple from the head of his son at the command of the tyrant Gessler. The place where the tree stood to which his son was bound, and on which Gessler's hat was placed, is covered by a handsome fountain.
Página 46 - ... to posterity in the pages of history. Indeed, his name would never have been heard of had it not been for the generous allusion made to him by Vancouver, in his narrative published six years afterwards.