Visits and Sketches, at Home and AbroadSaunders & Otley, 1839 |
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... Cologne The Medusa Professor Walraf Schlegel and Madame de Staël Story of Archbishop Gerard Heidelberg - Elizabeth Stuart An English Farmer's idea of the Picturesque II . Frankfort The Theatre - Madame Haitsinger The Versorgung Haus The ...
... Cologne The Medusa Professor Walraf Schlegel and Madame de Staël Story of Archbishop Gerard Heidelberg - Elizabeth Stuart An English Farmer's idea of the Picturesque II . Frankfort The Theatre - Madame Haitsinger The Versorgung Haus The ...
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... Cologne . MEDON . You pause ? -you have nothing to say of Co- logne ? No English traveller , except your pro- fessed tourists and guide - book makers , ever has ; of the crowds who pass through the place , on their way up or down the ...
... Cologne . MEDON . You pause ? -you have nothing to say of Co- logne ? No English traveller , except your pro- fessed tourists and guide - book makers , ever has ; of the crowds who pass through the place , on their way up or down the ...
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... Cologne , and then away ! And yet this strange old city , which a bigoted priesthood , a jealous magistracy , and a variety of historical causes , have so long kept isolated in the midst of Europe , with its Roman origin , its classical ...
... Cologne , and then away ! And yet this strange old city , which a bigoted priesthood , a jealous magistracy , and a variety of historical causes , have so long kept isolated in the midst of Europe , with its Roman origin , its classical ...
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... Cologne has since become most interesting to me , from a friendship I formed with a Colonese , a descendant of one of the most ancient and dis- tinguished families of the place . How she loved her old city ! -how she worshipped every ...
... Cologne has since become most interesting to me , from a friendship I formed with a Colonese , a descendant of one of the most ancient and dis- tinguished families of the place . How she loved her old city ! -how she worshipped every ...
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... Cologne have a distinct character , but little modified by inter- course with the surrounding country , and pre- served by continual intermarriages among them- selves . They have a dialect , and songs , and ballads , and music ...
... Cologne have a distinct character , but little modified by inter- course with the surrounding country , and pre- served by continual intermarriages among them- selves . They have a dialect , and songs , and ballads , and music ...
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admirable Albert Durer ALDA Ambos amused ancient antique appeared Ariadne artists Bavaria beautiful believe busts Caryatides ceiling celebrated character Chrimhilde Cologne colossal colour compartments Correggio Dannecker daughter Dietrich of Bern Duke elegant Elgin marbles emperor England English enthusiasm excited executed expression eyes fancy fashion feeling figure Frankfort Frederic fresco friends gallery genius German Goëthe grace grand Greek head heart Heidelberg honour idea king king of Bavaria Klenze lady Leo von Klenze looked luxurious Madame de Staël magnificent manner marble MEDON ment mind moral Munich nature never ornaments painted painters palace Petersburgh poems poet poetical poetry post 8vo Prince queen racter remember represented round Rubens scene Schiller Schwanthaler sculpture Siegfried simplicity spirit splendid splendour Städel statue style subjects talents taste theatre thing thought tion Titian told travelling truth Vols whole wife woman women young
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Página 66 - And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Página 274 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave : — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
Página 66 - It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof, perhaps, there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
Página 142 - knew all qualities, with a learned spirit in human dealings," that he was not only the quick discerner and most cordial hater of all affectation ; — but even the unconscious affectation — the nature de convention, — the taught, the artificial, the acquired in manner or character, though it were meritorious in itself, he always detected, and it appeared to impress him disagreeably. Stay, I will read you the passage — here it is. " Even virtue, laboriously and painfully acquired, was distasteful...
Página 163 - Those far-renowned brides of ancient song Peopled the hollow dark, like burning stars, And I heard sounds of insult, shame, and wrong, And trumpets blown for wars...
Página 256 - And Sorrow, with her family of Sighs ; And Pleasure, blind with tears, led by the gleam Of her own dying smile instead of eyes, — Came in slow pomp ; — the moving pomp might seem Like pageantry of mist on an autumnal stream.
Página 203 - there was one thing I had resolved to do which yet remained undone. I was resolved to see the woman who had been the original cause of all my poor brother's misfortunes. I thought if once I could say to her, ' Your falsehood has done this ! ' I should be satisfied ; but my brother's friends dissuaded me from this idea.
Página 50 - The march of opinion, and criticism, and knowledge of every kind, has been so rapid, that much has become old which then was new ; but this does not detract from its merit.
Página 191 - Her suit being rejected by all the ministers, (for even those who were most gentle, and who allowed the hardship of the case, still refused to interfere, or deliver her petition,) she resolved to do, what she had been dissuaded from attempting in the first instance — to appeal to the emperor in person : but it was in vain she lavished hundreds of dollars in bribes to the inferior officers; in vain she...
Página 184 - Erlangen, in Bavaria, whence he returned to his family, with the highest testimonies of his talents and good conduct. His father now destined him for the clerical profession, with which his own wishes accorded. His sister fondly dwelt upon his praises, and described him, perhaps with all a sister's partiality, as being not only the pride of his family, but of all his fellow-citizens, " tall, and handsome, and good," of a most benevolent enthusiastic temper, and devoted to his studies.