By-ways of EuropeG.P. Putnam and Son, 1871 - 470 páginas |
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Bayard Taylor. BY BAYARD TAYLOR . HOUSEHOLD EDITION . NEW YORK : G. P. PUTNAM & SONS , 4TH AVENUE & 23D STREET . 1871 . Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year BY - WAYS OF EUROPE .
Bayard Taylor. BY BAYARD TAYLOR . HOUSEHOLD EDITION . NEW YORK : G. P. PUTNAM & SONS , 4TH AVENUE & 23D STREET . 1871 . Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year BY - WAYS OF EUROPE .
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... streets to the Valamo's landing - place . We found a handsome English - built steamer , with tonnage and power enough for the heaviest squalls , and an after - cabin so com- fortable that all our anticipations of the primitive modes of ...
... streets to the Valamo's landing - place . We found a handsome English - built steamer , with tonnage and power enough for the heaviest squalls , and an after - cabin so com- fortable that all our anticipations of the primitive modes of ...
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... streets , but the houses are altogether so bright , so clean , so substantially comfortable , and the geraniums and roses peeping out between snowy curtains in almost every window suggested such cozy interiors , that I found myself ...
... streets , but the houses are altogether so bright , so clean , so substantially comfortable , and the geraniums and roses peeping out between snowy curtains in almost every window suggested such cozy interiors , that I found myself ...
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... street , and over the jolting level to the top of the sand hill we had seen Kexholm in half an hour . ― At the mouth of the river still lay the fog , waiting for us , now and then stretching a ghostly arm over the woods and then ...
... street , and over the jolting level to the top of the sand hill we had seen Kexholm in half an hour . ― At the mouth of the river still lay the fog , waiting for us , now and then stretching a ghostly arm over the woods and then ...
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... streets , past shops full of primitive hardware , groceries which emitted powerful whiffs of salt fish or new ... street , whose substantial houses , with their courts and gardens , hinted at the aristocracy of Serdopol . The inn , with ...
... streets , past shops full of primitive hardware , groceries which emitted powerful whiffs of salt fish or new ... street , whose substantial houses , with their courts and gardens , hinted at the aristocracy of Serdopol . The inn , with ...
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Página 472 - HAYDN'S DICTIONARY OF DATES, relating to all Ages and Nations. For Universal Reference. Edited by BENJAMIN VINCENT, Assistant Secretary and Keeper of the Library of the Royal Institution of Great Britain ; and Revised for the Use of American Readers.
Página 361 - ON THE SEA It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell Gluts twice ten thousand Caverns, till the spell Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound. Often 'tis in such gentle temper found, That scarcely will the very smallest shell Be moved for days from where it sometime fell, When last the winds of Heaven were unbound. Oh ye! who have your eye-balls vexed and tired, Feast them upon the wideness of the Sea; Oh ye!
Página 472 - Like every author distinguished for true comic humor, there was a deep vein of melancholy pathos running through his mirth, and even when his sun shone brightly its light seemed often reflected as if only over the rim of a cloud.
Página 318 - The Ancient Barbarossa, Friedrich, the Kaiser great, Within the castle-cavern Sits in enchanted state. " He did not die ; but ever Waits in the chamber deep, Where, hidden under the castle, He sat himself, to sleep. " The splendor of the Empire He took with him away, And back to earth will bring it When dawns the chosen day. " The chair is ivory purest Whereof he makes his bed ; The table is of marble Whereon he props his head.
Página 67 - Touched the faint color on her oval cheek, Or pinched the arches of her tender mouth. She took me for a vision, and she lay With her sleep's smile unaltered, as in doubt Whether real life had stolen into her dreams, Or dreaming stretched into her outer life. I was not graceless to a woman's eyes. The girls of Damar paused to see me pass, I walking in my rags, yet beautiful. One maiden said, " He has a prince's air ! " I am a prince ; the air was all my own.
Página 361 - The brightness of the day increased the illusion, and made the incredible beauty of the cavern all the more startling, because devoid of gloom and mystery. It was an idyl of the sea, born of the god-lore of Greece.
Página 318 - 0 dwarf, go up this hour, And see if still the ravens Are flying round the tower. " ' And if the ancient ravens Still wheel above me here, Then must I sleep enchanted For many a hundred year.
Página 331 - Stature from father, and the mood Stern views of life compelling; From mother I take the joyous heart, And the love of story-telling; Great-grandsire's passion was the fair — What if I still reveal it? Great-grandam's was pomp, and gold, and show, And in my bones I feel it.
Página 472 - English edition, with an American Supplement, containing about 200 additional pages, including American Topics and a copious Biographical Index. By GP PUTNAM, AM In one very large volume of more than 1,000 pages.
Página 308 - Thiiringia, where its last mountains look across the Golden Mead towards the dark summits of the Hartz, there stands a castle, in whose ruins sleeps the favorite tradition of Germany, — a legend which, changing with the ages, became the embodiment of an idea, and now represents the national unity, strength, and freedom. This is the Kyffhauser ; and the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa sleeps under it, in a crypt of the mountain, waiting for the day when the whole land, from the Baltic to the Alps,...