Auvergne, Piedmont, and Savoy: A Summer RambleJohn W. Parker, 1801 - 351 pages |
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... were filled with actors and actresses ; the latter oc- cupying the front seats , and dressed in the height of fashion . The poet - orator was fortunate . While he 26 MADAME CATALANI . 6 spoke , perfect silence prevailed AUV . C.
... were filled with actors and actresses ; the latter oc- cupying the front seats , and dressed in the height of fashion . The poet - orator was fortunate . While he 26 MADAME CATALANI . 6 spoke , perfect silence prevailed AUV . C.
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... height of 28 inches . Leaving one of the tubes behind , Périer proceeded to the top of the mountain , when he was greatly delighted to find the mercury sink more than three inches , and remain stationary at the height of 24.7 inches ...
... height of 28 inches . Leaving one of the tubes behind , Périer proceeded to the top of the mountain , when he was greatly delighted to find the mercury sink more than three inches , and remain stationary at the height of 24.7 inches ...
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... heights in the vicinity . It may have been that the waters had produced these happy results , that the guests had arrived invalids , but that now , as the season was far advanced , health and activity had taken the place of sickness and ...
... heights in the vicinity . It may have been that the waters had produced these happy results , that the guests had arrived invalids , but that now , as the season was far advanced , health and activity had taken the place of sickness and ...
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... height occasioned a coolness which was truly delightful . The Pic de Sancy , according to a recent government survey , is 6171 English feet above the sea - level . Thus it takes respectable rank amongst mountains ; but it has claims of ...
... height occasioned a coolness which was truly delightful . The Pic de Sancy , according to a recent government survey , is 6171 English feet above the sea - level . Thus it takes respectable rank amongst mountains ; but it has claims of ...
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... height of between one hundred and two hundred feet , and stud the country in thick profusion , their bases almost touching each other . Amongst these the road winds , but in many places it is difficult to distinguish the path , so ...
... height of between one hundred and two hundred feet , and stud the country in thick profusion , their bases almost touching each other . Amongst these the road winds , but in many places it is difficult to distinguish the path , so ...
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Auvergne, Piedmont, and Savoy: A Summer Ramble (Classic Reprint) Charles Richard Weld No preview available - 2018 |
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Alpine Alps amidst Annonay appeared arrived ascend Auvergnats Auvergne basaltic baths beautiful bell beneath Bourges breakfast Briançon BRIANÇONNOIS called carriage Carthusians castle cathedral Chartreuse church Clermont convent coupé cross curious dark defile descended diligence English entered eyes feet fish forest France French garçon gorge GRANDE CHARTREUSE Grenoble hands Hautes Alpes height horse huge hundred inhabitants Isère Jacques journey ladies lake landlord Lanslebourg Le Puy looking Madame magnificent miles monks Mont Dore morning mountain Nérondes night o'clock occupied Paris passed path peasants picturesque Polignac portmanteaus precipices present priest railway reader road rocks rocky Roman round salon scene scenery seats seen side sketch streets summit Susa table d'hôte thousand tion tourist town traveller trees trout Turin Val d'Isère valley village visited visitors volcanic Voreppe walk walls wonderful Yssingeaux
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Page 246 - Ah come not, write not, think not once of me, Nor share one pang of all I felt for thee. Thy oaths I quit, thy memory resign; Forget, renounce me, hate whate'er was mine. Fair eyes, and tempting looks (which yet I view!) Long lov'd, ador'd ideas!
Page 136 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Page 222 - Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep, — that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live. — I look on high ; Has some unknown omnipotence unfurled The veil of life and death ? or do I lie In dream, and does the mightier world of sleep...
Page 142 - Not vainly did the early Persian make His altar the high places and the peak Of earth-o'ergazing mountains, and thus take A fit and unwall'd temple, there to seek The Spirit in whose honour shrines are weak, Uprear'd of human hands. Come and compare Columns and idol-dwellings, Goth or Greek, With Nature's realms of worship, earth and air, Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer.
Page iv - To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the Brooks which down their channels fret, Even more than when I...
Page 270 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our Fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 117 - And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.
Page 99 - This morning, dear mother, as soon as 'twas light, I was wak'd by a noise that astonish'd me quite ; For in Tabitha's chamber I heard such a clatter, I could not conceive what the deuce was the matter ; And, would you believe it, I went up and found her In a blanket, with two lusty fellows around her, Who both seem'da going to carry her off in A little black box, just the size of a coffin: Description of the Bathing. ' Pray tell me,' says I,
Page 139 - Then stirs the feeling, infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone ; A truth, which through our being then doth melt, And purifies from self: it is a tone, The soul and source of music, which makes known Eternal harmony, and sheds a charm, Like to the fabled Cytherea's zone, Binding all things with beauty ; — 'twould disarm The spectre Death, had he substantial power to harm.
Page 244 - Nous ne permettons jamais aux femmes d'entrer dans notre enceinte ; car nous savons que ni le sage, ni le prophète, ni le juge, ni l'hôte de Dieu, ni ses enfans, ni même le premier modèle sorti de ses mains, n'ont pu échapper aux caresses ou aux tromperies des femmes.