Continental Adventures: A Novel ...Hurst & Robinson, 1826 |
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... dress up every scene with their flowery descrip- tions ; -- and the consequence is , that their tra- vels present any thing rather than a correct pic- ture of the countries they describe , and are characterised by excessive exaggeration ...
... dress up every scene with their flowery descrip- tions ; -- and the consequence is , that their tra- vels present any thing rather than a correct pic- ture of the countries they describe , and are characterised by excessive exaggeration ...
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... dresses , and children , and boats , and fishing tackle , looked picturesque and natural , though somewhat dirty . The first specimen we saw of the sanctity of Italy , was the statue of a saint , sixty feet high -St . Carlo Borromeo ...
... dresses , and children , and boats , and fishing tackle , looked picturesque and natural , though somewhat dirty . The first specimen we saw of the sanctity of Italy , was the statue of a saint , sixty feet high -St . Carlo Borromeo ...
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... for nothing could well be more frivolous and insipid . The talk of the gentlemen was especially made up of direct , and I thought , extremely gross flattery of the Marchesa's looks , dress , features and complex- ion 28 MILAN AMUSEMENTS .
... for nothing could well be more frivolous and insipid . The talk of the gentlemen was especially made up of direct , and I thought , extremely gross flattery of the Marchesa's looks , dress , features and complex- ion 28 MILAN AMUSEMENTS .
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A Novel ... Charlotte Anne Waldie Eaton. the Marchesa's looks , dress , features and complex- ion , seasoned with severe strictures upon the ap- pearance of some other ladies - who from the aspe- rity of the remarks the fair Marchesa ...
A Novel ... Charlotte Anne Waldie Eaton. the Marchesa's looks , dress , features and complex- ion , seasoned with severe strictures upon the ap- pearance of some other ladies - who from the aspe- rity of the remarks the fair Marchesa ...
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... dresses , decora- tions , scenes , and company - both on and off the stage . The theatre of the Burattini , or Marionettes , afforded us infinitely more amusement . These jointed performers were well dressed puppets , who walked in and ...
... dresses , decora- tions , scenes , and company - both on and off the stage . The theatre of the Burattini , or Marionettes , afforded us infinitely more amusement . These jointed performers were well dressed puppets , who walked in and ...
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Էջ 78 - She that has that is clad in complete steel ; And, like a quiver'd nymph, with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds, Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity...
Էջ 52 - O'er other creatures. Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Էջ 283 - Kept the word of promise to the ear, But broke it to the hope.
Էջ 78 - Chi va lontan da la sua patria, vede cose, da quel che già credea, lontane; che narrandole poi, non se gli crede, e stimato bugiardo ne rimane: che '1 sciocco vulgo non gli vuol dar fede, se non le vede e tocca chiare e piane.
Էջ 184 - Ah me ! for aught that ever I could read, Could ever hear by tale or hiftory, The courfe of true love never did run fmooth : But, either it was different in blood ; Her. O crofs ! too high to be enthrall'd to low ! Lyf.
Էջ 196 - Not to a rage : patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once : her smiles and tears
Էջ 70 - Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright, and coy; We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill, Still it eludes us, and it glitters still : If seiz'd at last, compute your mighty gains ; What is it, but rank poison in your veins...
Էջ 162 - Ay, now am I in Arden; the more fool I; when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travelers must be content.
Էջ 53 - Though higher of the genial bed by far, And with mysterious reverence I deem, So much delights me, as those graceful acts, Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions...
Էջ 1 - Bears me remote, o'er Gallia's woody bounds, O'er the cloud-piercing Alps remote ; beyond The vale of Arno purpled with the vine, Beyond the Umbrian and Etruscan hills, To Latium's wide champain, forlorn and waste, Where yellow Tiber his neglected wave Mournfully rolls.