Bubbles from the Brunnens of Nassau

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G.G. Lange, 1843 - 316 páginas

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Página 123 - Now strike the golden lyre again: A louder yet, and yet a louder strain ! Break his bands of sleep asunder And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark ! the horrid sound Has raised up his head : As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge...
Página 221 - The bottles, on arriving here, were filled brim-full (as I conceived for the purpose of being washed), and were then ranged in ranks, or rather solid columns, of seven hundred each, there being ten rows of seventy bottles. It being now seven o'clock, a bell rung as a signal for giving over work, and the whole process came suddenly to an end ; for a few seconds, the busy labourers (as in a disturbed ant-heap) were seen irregularly hurrying in all directions; but, in a very short time, all had vanished.
Página 171 - The effect the water produces on the skin is very singular : it is about as warm as milk, but infinitely softer ; and after dipping the hand into it, if the thumb be rubbed against the fingers, it is said by many to resemble satin. Nevertheless, whatever may be its sensation, when the reader reflects that people not only come to these baths from Russia, but that the water in stone bottles, merely as a cosmetic, is sent to St.
Página 220 - ... these full bottles, one on each finger of each hand, ranging them in several long rows upon a large table or dresser, — also beneath the shed. No sooner were they there, than two men, with surprising activity, put a cork into each ; while two drummers, with a long stick in each of their hands hammering them down, appeared as if they were playing upon musical glasses. Another set of young women now instantly carried them...
Página 220 - ... at a time, from three o'clock in the morning till seven o'clock at night (meal hours excepted), it is evident that, without very excellent arrangement, some of the squads either would be glutted with more work than they could perform, or would stand idle with nothing to do: — no one, therefore, dares to hurry or stop ; the machinery, in full motion, has the singular appearance which I have endeavoured to describe ; and, certainly, the motto of the place might be that of old Goethe's ring —...
Página 175 - ... bottles full of serpents ; and then opening a wooden box, he took out, as a fisherwoman would handle eels, some very long ones ; one of which (first looking over his shoulder to see that a certain personage was away) he put upon a line which she had stretched across the room for drying clothes. In order, I suppose, to demonstrate to me that the reptile was harmless, he took it off the rope, along which it was moving very quickly; and, without submitting his project for my approbation, he suddenly...
Página 312 - Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar The friends thou hast and their adoption tried Grapple them to thy soul with...
Página 187 - Ovid," where he is made to study everything which human ingenuity could invent to sully, degrade, and ruin the mind of a young person. The Almighty Creator of the Universe is caricatured by a set of grotesque personages termed gods and goddesses, so grossly sensual, so inordinately licentious, that were they to-day to appear in London, before sunset they would probably be every one of them where they ought to be — at the tread-mill. The poor boy, however, must pore over all their amours, natural...
Página 264 - That won't do to-day," replied the father ; " for we have a guest here — but what does my hunter's spear do there?, have you been again playing with it? carry it away into the corner." " You have there," said the pilgrim, " a young knight who knows already how to kill boars — also you are, I hear, a renowned huntsman in this valley ; therefore you have something of the spirit of a knight in you.
Página 43 - ... the postilion, that, far from paying any compliment to the turn-out, one is very much disposed at once to condemn the whole thing, and not caring a straw whether such horses be fatigued or not, to make no other remark than that, in England, we should have travelled at nearly twice the rate, with one-tenth of the noise.

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