Through the Dolomites from Venice to Toblach

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G. Allen, 1896 - 232 páginas

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Página 18 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Página 19 - How many a year, my Asolo, Since — one step just from sea to land — I found you, loved yet feared you so — For natural objects seemed to stand Palpably fire-clothed!
Página 19 - The objection that such a word nowhere occurs in the works of the Cardinal is hardly important — Bembo was too thorough a purist to conserve in print a term which in talk he might possibly toy with: but the word is more likely derived from a Spanish source. I use it for love of the place, and in requital of your pleasant assurance that an early poem of mine first attracted you thither — where and elsewhere, at La Mura as C& Alvisi, may all happiness attend you!
Página viii - seem to have been built for the human race, as at once their schools and cathedrals; full of treasures of illuminated manuscript for the scholar, kindly in simple lessons for the worker, quiet in pale cloisters for the thinker, glorious in holiness for the worshipper.
Página 101 - Miiller, and at our request accompanied us to the scene of the occurrence, a field on the slope of a hill, about a mile and a half...
Página 179 - It is heavy work, and it takes from an hour to an hour and a half to husk the rice for one meal.

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