A Handbook for Travellers in France: Being a Guide to Normandy, Brittany, the Rivers Seine, Loire, Rhône, and Garonne, the French Alps, Dauphiné, the Pyrenees, Provence, and Nice, &c. &c. &c. : the Railways and Principal RoadsJ. Murray, 1867 - 684 páginas |
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Página 567 - I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation that there was no restraining: not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument.
Página 509 - And when blind man pronounced thy bliss complete ! And on a foreign shore ! where strangers wept ! Strangers to thee ; and, more surprising still, Strangers to kindness, wept : their eyes let fall Inhuman tears : strange tears ! that trickled down From marble hearts ! obdurate tenderness ! A tenderness that call'd them more severe ; In spite of nature's soft persuasion, steel'd : While nature melted, superstition raved ; That mourn'd the dead, and this denied a grave. Their sighs incens'd ; sighs...
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Página 527 - Why full of days and honour lives the sire ? Why drew Marseilles' good bishop purer breath When Nature sicken'd, and each gale was death?
Página 249 - The officers and soldiers of the army must recollect that their nations are nt war with France, solely because the ruler of the French nation will not allow them to be at peace, and is desirous of forcing them to submit to his yoke...
Página 509 - O'er dust ! a charity their dogs enjoy. What could I do? what succour? what resource? With pious sacrilege, a grave I stole ; With impious piety, that grave I wrong'd ; Short in my duty ; coward in my grief!
Página 20 - The mind is filled and elevated by the enormous height of the building (140 feet), its lofty and many-coloured clerestory, its grand proportions, its noble simplicity. The proportion of height to breadth is almost double that to which we are accustomed in English cathedrals ; the lofty, solid piers, which bear up this height, are far more massive in their plan than the light and graceful clusters of our English churches, each of them being a cylinder with four engaged columns. The polygonal E. apse...
Página 657 - After the departure of the Goths, and the separation of the allied army, Attila was surprised at the vast silence that reigned over the plains of Chalons : the suspicion of some hostile stratagem detained him several days within the circle of his waggons; and his retreat beyond the Rhine confessed the last victory which was achieved in the name of the Western empire.
Página 15 - was certainly not a very pleasant place that morning ; but," he added, " it is not my wish to injure the poor inhabitants, and the town is spared as much as the nature of the service will admit.
Página 639 - now is fulfilled the pleasure of God, who willed that you should come to Reims and be anointed, showing that you are the true king, and he to whom the kingdom should belong.' She now regarded her mission as accomplished, and her inspiration as fled. ' I wish,' she said, ' that the gentle king should allow me to return towards my father and mother, keep my flocks and herds as before, and do all things as I was wont to do.