Through the Dolomites from Venice to ToblachG. Allen, 1896 - 232 páginas |
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... side valleys , and to make not a few excursions and climbs , so as to visit scenes of natural beauty and historic interest . Unlike ordinary country towns and villages , those of the Dolomites are all historic places , each with its ...
... side valleys , and to make not a few excursions and climbs , so as to visit scenes of natural beauty and historic interest . Unlike ordinary country towns and villages , those of the Dolomites are all historic places , each with its ...
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... side ; its roof projects , resting on carved beams , under it are coats of arms , and its walls were frescoed inside and outside . It was allowed to fall into such decay that latterly it has served as a builder's yard . Its day of ...
... side ; its roof projects , resting on carved beams , under it are coats of arms , and its walls were frescoed inside and outside . It was allowed to fall into such decay that latterly it has served as a builder's yard . Its day of ...
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... side . Cornuda ( 36 miles ; Station for Maser and Asolo . ) Soon the wayside station of Cornuda was reached , where we again broke our journey , being desirous of seeing two places of interest in its neighbourhood , Maser , where is the ...
... side . Cornuda ( 36 miles ; Station for Maser and Asolo . ) Soon the wayside station of Cornuda was reached , where we again broke our journey , being desirous of seeing two places of interest in its neighbourhood , Maser , where is the ...
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... 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 ! ” Browning revisited Asolo in 1878 , and again in 1889 , the year of his death . The place that had inspired ...
... 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 ! ” Browning revisited Asolo in 1878 , and again in 1889 , the year of his death . The place that had inspired ...
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... sides show traces of glacier action . The line , leaving now for a short distance the Piave Valley , bends round an isolated hill called Miesna , on the top of which is the large twelfth - century monastery of S. Vittore , and we ...
... sides show traces of glacier action . The line , leaving now for a short distance the Piave Valley , bends round an isolated hill called Miesna , on the top of which is the large twelfth - century monastery of S. Vittore , and we ...
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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.