Travels in Europe and the East: A Year in England, Scotland, Ireland...

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The first volume covers the author's travel through England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, and Austria. The second covers the travel to Italy, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt. The author describes the exciting highlights of his trip--tourist destinations in important cities--and gives some superficial description of the people he encounters.
 

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Էջ 143 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Էջ 347 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, Let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings : For there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, The shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Էջ 101 - Over thy decent shoulders drawn : Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
Էջ 369 - And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver; and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
Էջ 143 - He heard it, but he heeded not— his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away; He reck'd not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother— he their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday ! — All this rush'd with his blood— Shall he expire And unavenged ? — Arise ! ye Goths, and glut your ire...
Էջ 78 - It seemed, amidst clustering towers of inferior churches, an emblem of the Catholic hierarchy under its supreme head; like Rome itself, imposing, unbroken, unchangeable, radiating in equal expansion to every part of the earth, and directing its convergent curves to heaven.
Էջ 347 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Էջ 284 - THE Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass ; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John...
Էջ 133 - And when all beheld Him, where he lay, how changed from yesterday, Him in that hour cut off, and at his head His last great work ; when, entering in, they...
Էջ 284 - Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

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