Through the Dolomites from Venice to ToblachG. Allen, 1896 - 232 páginas |
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... river of stones , that may flow , not only for hours , but for days , covering , it may be , many hamlets , and ... rivers have made the beds in which they flow across the plains of Venetia into great broad highways , raised , as in the ...
... river of stones , that may flow , not only for hours , but for days , covering , it may be , many hamlets , and ... rivers have made the beds in which they flow across the plains of Venetia into great broad highways , raised , as in the ...
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... rivers . Probably all four wrote from personal know- ledge , for Polybius is believed to have travelled over the country with his friend Publius Cornelius Scipio , the Roman general ; Pliny did the same as commander of a troop of Roman ...
... rivers . Probably all four wrote from personal know- ledge , for Polybius is believed to have travelled over the country with his friend Publius Cornelius Scipio , the Roman general ; Pliny did the same as commander of a troop of Roman ...
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... rivers of the mountains had been often tinged with blood shed on behalf of Venice , and that these waters remained thus a living testimony to the worthiness of the Cadorins to be confirmed in this ancient privilege . As Venice forbade ...
... rivers of the mountains had been often tinged with blood shed on behalf of Venice , and that these waters remained thus a living testimony to the worthiness of the Cadorins to be confirmed in this ancient privilege . As Venice forbade ...
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... rivers of the Highlands of Cadore . The main highway from Venice through the Dolo- mites is the great natural one afforded by the Piave and Boite valleys ; and it is one that figures in the history of Cadore from very early times . In ...
... rivers of the Highlands of Cadore . The main highway from Venice through the Dolo- mites is the great natural one afforded by the Piave and Boite valleys ; and it is one that figures in the history of Cadore from very early times . In ...
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... river are shown rushing around him full of fish , whilst he , with the infant Christ on his shoulder , and a tree - like staff in his hand , boldly fords it . The size of the fresco is explained by the tradition that on the day one saw ...
... river are shown rushing around him full of fish , whilst he , with the infant Christ on his shoulder , and a tree - like staff in his hand , boldly fords it . The size of the fresco is explained by the tradition that on the day one saw ...
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Agordo Albergo Alleghe Ampezzo Antelao ascent Asolo Auronzo Austrian bank beautiful Belluno Boite Valley Borca bridge built Cadorini Calalzo called Caprile Carnia carriage carved castle centre century Cesare Vecellio chapel Chiapuzza church cliffs climb cloth colour Cordevole Cortina cross Crown 8vo d'Oro Davide Riva Dolomites door erected excursion feet Feltre forest Forno di Zoldo frescoes Galeazzi Gogna gorge Gothic green hill horses houses hundred inhabitants Italian Italy journey kind permission lake landslip Longarone looked Marco Marmarole miles Monte Mount mountain palace passed peaks Pelmo Perarolo permission of Signor Piave river Piave Valley Piazza Pieve di Cadore pine pine-wood precipices Republic river road rock Roman round saw-mills Schluderbach seen side Signor Davide Riva slopes Sorapiss Stefano stone summit Titian Toblach torrent tower town trees Treviso Valle VALLE DI CADORE Vallesella Venetian Venice VILLA BARBARO village walk walls wood Zucco
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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.