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... Venice XXXIV . Do. ( 3 ) -West Coast , Naples , XXXV . Do. ( 4 ) -Sardinia , Sicily , Malta XXXVI . Do. ( 5 ) -Products and People XXXVII . GREECE ( 1 ) XXXVIII . Do. ( 2 ) Turkey XXXIX . THE BALKAN PENINSULA ( 1 ) · XL . THE BALKAN ...
... Venice XXXIV . Do. ( 3 ) -West Coast , Naples , XXXV . Do. ( 4 ) -Sardinia , Sicily , Malta XXXVI . Do. ( 5 ) -Products and People XXXVII . GREECE ( 1 ) XXXVIII . Do. ( 2 ) Turkey XXXIX . THE BALKAN PENINSULA ( 1 ) · XL . THE BALKAN ...
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... VENICE Byron 92 A LETTER FROM İTALY Addison ΙΟΙ THE GREEK BOY Bryant 107 LAKE LEMAN HOHENLINDEN AND LIEGE TO GREECE TURKEY · CONSTANTINOPLE THE ALPS TO THE RIVER ARVE TO JUNG FRAU • THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM LINES WRITTEN BETWEEN NAMUR ...
... VENICE Byron 92 A LETTER FROM İTALY Addison ΙΟΙ THE GREEK BOY Bryant 107 LAKE LEMAN HOHENLINDEN AND LIEGE TO GREECE TURKEY · CONSTANTINOPLE THE ALPS TO THE RIVER ARVE TO JUNG FRAU • THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM LINES WRITTEN BETWEEN NAMUR ...
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... VENICE • 14. CONSTANTINOPLE 15. AN ICE CAVE 16. VIENNA 17. FRANKFORT 18. ROTTERDAM 19. ANTWERP 20. A NORWEGIAN SCENE 21. A STREET IN ST . PETERSBURG - WINTER TIME . 22. Moscow · 3678 16 17 25 27 33 61 DAN 35 79 91 111 121 131 139 151 ...
... VENICE • 14. CONSTANTINOPLE 15. AN ICE CAVE 16. VIENNA 17. FRANKFORT 18. ROTTERDAM 19. ANTWERP 20. A NORWEGIAN SCENE 21. A STREET IN ST . PETERSBURG - WINTER TIME . 22. Moscow · 3678 16 17 25 27 33 61 DAN 35 79 91 111 121 131 139 151 ...
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... to wrest from the Turk - the old Greek colony of Stamboul or Constantinople . At Berlin , the capital of the Ger- * This signifies degree . O man Empire , at Venice , formerly mistress of the Day - Rings and Noon - Rings . 13.
... to wrest from the Turk - the old Greek colony of Stamboul or Constantinople . At Berlin , the capital of the Ger- * This signifies degree . O man Empire , at Venice , formerly mistress of the Day - Rings and Noon - Rings . 13.
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John Richard Blakiston. man Empire , at Venice , formerly mistress of the Adriatic , and at Rome , once Empress of the world , " the shameless noon is clashed and hammered from a hundred tongues " of bells fifty minutes before Big Ben ...
John Richard Blakiston. man Empire , at Venice , formerly mistress of the Adriatic , and at Rome , once Empress of the world , " the shameless noon is clashed and hammered from a hundred tongues " of bells fifty minutes before Big Ben ...
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Alps Arctic Arctic Ocean Atlantic Baltic banks Bay of Biscay beautiful Black Sea Britain British Byron called canals Cape capital Caspian Caspian Sea circle climate coast course Danube degree Dinaric Alps drainage earth east eastern eastward England English Miles Equator equinox Europe feet forests France French Germany Gibraltar globe Greece Greek Greenwich Gulf Gulf of Lions half heat height Holland Hungary islands Isles Italy knots lake land latitude length LESSON longitude meridian midsummer midwinter mouth nearly night noon noontide sun North Sea north-west northern northward o'er Ocean parallel pass peninsula plain Pole port Pyrenees rays Rhine Rhone rises river rotation Russia S₁ ships shores Sicily snow southern slopes southward Spain stands stars Strait stream summer sun's altitude Temperate Zone thence town Tropic Tropic of Cancer Tropic of Capricorn Typo.Etching Ural Mountains valley Venice waters western westward winter
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Page 127 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder...
Page 157 - Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear; And when they smiled because he...
Page 68 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Page 140 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry. Few, few shall part where many meet ! The snow shall be their winding-sheet ; And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.
Page 92 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand...
Page 156 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Page 136 - IT was a summer evening, Old Kaspar's work was done; And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun, And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine. She saw her brother Peterkin Roll something large and round...
Page 85 - And even since, and now, fair Italy ! Thou art the garden of the world, the home Of all Art yields, and Nature can decree ; Even in thy desert, what is like to thee ? Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility : Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which cannot be defaced.
Page 139 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won ; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun : But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. 'Great praise the Duke of Marlbro* won And our good Prince Eugene;' 'Why 'twas a very wicked thing !' Said little Wilhelmine; 'Nay . . nay . . my little girl,' quoth he, 'It was a famous victory.
Page 126 - Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring.