A Month in France and Switzerland, During the Autumn of 18241825 - 304 pages |
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... look - added to , and aided by the butterfly that seemed to the eye of fancy to flutter at its feet , fixed me to the spot , and when I turned to other objects , recalled me again and again , till I quitted the hall . absolutely ...
... look - added to , and aided by the butterfly that seemed to the eye of fancy to flutter at its feet , fixed me to the spot , and when I turned to other objects , recalled me again and again , till I quitted the hall . absolutely ...
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... look a farewell ; and we were just composing ourselves into that sort of tranquillity which the " stilly " solitude of the forest was well calculated to en- gender , when one of our horses became entangled with the clumsy ropes ...
... look a farewell ; and we were just composing ourselves into that sort of tranquillity which the " stilly " solitude of the forest was well calculated to en- gender , when one of our horses became entangled with the clumsy ropes ...
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... look well in art . We were all occupied admiring one of the prettiest points of this prospect upon one of its sharpest declivities , when our drag - chain broke , and , as if in envy of our enjoyment , thought fit to put us into some ...
... look well in art . We were all occupied admiring one of the prettiest points of this prospect upon one of its sharpest declivities , when our drag - chain broke , and , as if in envy of our enjoyment , thought fit to put us into some ...
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... look , and smiled on us with such meekness , that we could not avoid the influence of an aspect so benign , we arrived opposite to a small wooden bridge that crossed the river at a point where its stream separates into two . I thought ...
... look , and smiled on us with such meekness , that we could not avoid the influence of an aspect so benign , we arrived opposite to a small wooden bridge that crossed the river at a point where its stream separates into two . I thought ...
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... look back from the present to the past of human intelligence . The time has been , indeed , when Grecian and Roman history shone with those corruscations of in- tellect which , dazzling in their present brightness , faded not away in ...
... look back from the present to the past of human intelligence . The time has been , indeed , when Grecian and Roman history shone with those corruscations of in- tellect which , dazzling in their present brightness , faded not away in ...
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Page 94 - 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 ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Page 20 - Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, The God of Life, and Poesy, and Light — The Sun in human limbs arrayed, and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight ; The shaft hath just been shot— the arrow bright With an Immortal's vengeance— in his eye And nostril beautiful Disdain, and Might And Majesty, flash their full lightnings by, Developing in that one glance the Deity.
Page 235 - Adieu, poor luckless maiden ! — Imbibe the oil and wine which the compassion of a stranger, as he journeyeth on his way, now pours into thy wounds ; — the Being who has twice bruised thee can only bind them up for ever.
Page 234 - together." Maria put her arm within mine, and lengthening the string, to let the dog follow — in that order we entered Moulines.
Page 120 - So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful, That God alone was to be seen in heaven.
Page 65 - At intervals, some bird from out the brakes, Starts into voice a moment, then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, for the starlight dews All silently their tears of love...
Page 234 - I'll dry it in my bosom, said she 'twill do me good. And is your heart still so warm, Maria? said I. I touched upon the string on which hung all her sorrows she looked with wistful disorder for some time in my face; and then, without saying anything, took her pipe, and played her service to the Virgin The string I had touched ceased to vibrate in a moment or two Maria returned to herself let her pipe fall and rose up. And where are you going, Maria?
Page 89 - ... whirlwind is less powerful than the silence of the dew. It has ransacked history and learned that the banner and the sword were never yet the symbols of man's grandest victories, and it begins at last to listen to the voice of that inspired philosophy, which through all ages has been gently saying: 'The race is not always to the swift, neither the battle to the strong.