Travelling mems. during a tour through Belgium, Rhenish Prussia, Germany, Switzerland and France ... in 1832 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Alps Andernach appearance Argovie ascended banks Bâsle beautiful Belgium beneath Berne Bonn bottle bridge called canton canton of Zug CANTONS OF ZURICH castle cathedral catholic CHAPTER church Coblentz Cologne containing dark delicious Ditto Drachenfels edifice Ehrenbreitstein English erected excellent exquisite formed fortress Francfurt francs French German Goldau Heidelberg height hills Hochheim horses Hôtel hour houses inhabitants Interlaken lake lake Lucerne lake of Lucerne land Lauterbrunnen leagues legend Liége looked Lucerne magnificent Mayence miles morning Moselle mountains Mynheer night o'clock passed peasantry peculiar picturesque plain present promenade Prussia Radstadt raft Rheinfels Rhigi Rhine rich river road rocks Roman Rudesheim rugged ruins Sarnen scene scenery Schlippenbach seated seen side steep streets stroll summit Swiss Switzerland table d'hôte thing Thun tourist towers town traveller trees Unterseen valley village vines vineyards visited walk wine wood Zurich
Pasajes populares
Página iv - Are not the mountains, waves, and skies, a part Of me and of my soul, as I of them?
Página 12 - 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...
Página 117 - 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...
Página 83 - The morn is up again, the dewy morn, With breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom, Laughing the clouds away with playful scorn, And living as if earth contain'd no tomb, — And glowing into day...
Página 92 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and...
Página 143 - Et de ces blonds cheveux, de qui la vaste enflure Des visages humains offusque la figure ? De ces petits pourpoints sous les bras se perdants, Et de ces grands collets jusqu'au nombril pendants?
Página 3 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Página 117 - Or lonely contemplation thus might stray; And could the ceaseless vultures cease to prey On self-condemning bosoms, it were here, Where Nature, nor too sombre nor too gay, Wild but not rude, awful yet not austere, Is to the mellow Earth as Autumn to the year. LX. Adieu to thee again ! a vain adieu ! There can be no farewell to scene like thine ; The mind is coloured by thy every hue ; And if reluctantly the eyes resign Their cherish'd gaze upon thee, lovely Rhine!
Página 109 - ERE, in the northern gale, The summer tresses of the trees are gone, The woods of Autumn, all around our vale, Have put their glory on. The mountains that infold, In their wide sweep, the coloured landscape round, Seem groups of giant kings, in purple and gold, That guard the enchanted ground.
Página 114 - Beneath these battlements, within those walls, Power dwelt amidst her passions ; in proud state Each robber chief upheld his armed halls, Doing his evil will, nor less elate Than mightier heroes of a longer date.