Sketches of the Earth and Its Inhabitants: With One Hundred Engravings, Bind 2Cummings, Hilliard & Company, 1823 |
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Side 3
... stone houses , are spacious gravelled walks for foot passengers . In regard to palaces and public structures of the first rank , Paris is greatly superior to London . The Tuileries , the present royal residence , was begun in the 16th ...
... stone houses , are spacious gravelled walks for foot passengers . In regard to palaces and public structures of the first rank , Paris is greatly superior to London . The Tuileries , the present royal residence , was begun in the 16th ...
Side 5
... stone is a soft calcareous aggregate , filled with organic remains , of which shells form the principal part . Here are vast quantities of human bones collected from the different cemeteries of Paris since 1786 , and arranged according ...
... stone is a soft calcareous aggregate , filled with organic remains , of which shells form the principal part . Here are vast quantities of human bones collected from the different cemeteries of Paris since 1786 , and arranged according ...
Side 6
... stone , gene- rally of five or six stories , and built in a heavy style of architecture . In the new parts of the town the buildings display considerable elegance , and there are some hand- some squares and fine promenades . Lyons ...
... stone , gene- rally of five or six stories , and built in a heavy style of architecture . In the new parts of the town the buildings display considerable elegance , and there are some hand- some squares and fine promenades . Lyons ...
Side 7
... stone can be so highly wrought , ri- valling , as it does , the delicacy of paper , and the fineness of lace . The spire is very elegant and lofty , said to be 410 feet high . Rouen is one of the greatest manufactur ing towns in France ...
... stone can be so highly wrought , ri- valling , as it does , the delicacy of paper , and the fineness of lace . The spire is very elegant and lofty , said to be 410 feet high . Rouen is one of the greatest manufactur ing towns in France ...
Side 8
... stones being of great size , of the finest kind , and are held together by cramps of brass . Near the amphitheatre is the Maison Quarrée , an ancient édifice , exhibiting the most exquisite beauties of architec- ture and sculpture . It ...
... stones being of great size , of the finest kind , and are held together by cramps of brass . Near the amphitheatre is the Maison Quarrée , an ancient édifice , exhibiting the most exquisite beauties of architec- ture and sculpture . It ...
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Side 37 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below, LXIII.
Side 50 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Side 50 - Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed...
Side 31 - Honour, that praise which real merit gains, Or e'en imaginary worth obtains, Here passes current ; paid from hand to hand, It shifts in splendid traffic round the land ; From courts to camps, to cottages it strays, And all are taught an avarice of praise ; They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem, Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
Side 49 - Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansions tread And force a churlish soil for scanty bread. No product here the barren hills afford But man and steel, the soldier and his sword...
Side 31 - To kinder skies, where gentler manners reign, I turn ; and France displays her bright domain. Gay sprightly land of mirth and social ease, Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please...
Side 132 - Ancient of days ! august Athena ! where, Where are thy men of might, thy grand in soul? Gone, — glimmering through the dream of things that were : First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and passed away, — is this the whole?
Side 285 - Before I had learned from the note the name and business of my visitor, I was struck with the manliness of his person, the breadth of his chest, the openness of his countenance, and the inquietude of his eye.
Side 121 - Tis Greece, but living Greece no more! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers, is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb; Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away!
Side 122 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...