A Satchel Guide for the Vacation Tourist in EuropeHurd and Houghton, 1924 A Compact itinerary of the British isles, Belgium and Holland, Germany and the Rhine, Switzerland, France, Austria, and Italy. |
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15th century Abbey Alps ancient antiquities beautiful Belgium Botzen bridge buildings built Castle Cathedral centre Chamonix Chapel char-à-banc charm Château choir Chur Church of St climb coast collection contains east Engadine Europe excursion façade famous feet finest Flüelen France French frescoes garden Genoa German Gothic Grand height hill Hôtel Hôtel de Ville inhabitants Innsbruck interesting interior Interlaken island Italian Italy Kirche Lake Lucerne Lugano magnificent marble Martigny mediæval medieval Meiringen Milan miles Monte monument mountains Musée Museum Naples nave paintings Palace Palazzo Paris Park Pass Piazza Picture Gallery picturesque Platz rail railway reached restored Rhine river road Roman Romanesque Rome route Royal ruins scenery Schloss sculptures side situated station statue steamer style Switzerland Temple thence tomb tour tourist tower town train tram transepts traveller valley Venice Vienna views village walk walls whence
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Page 388 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 214 - HAMELIN Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall on the southern side; A pleasanter spot you never spied; But, when begins my ditty, Almost five hundred years ago, To see the townsfolk suffer so From vermin, was a pity.
Page 28 - Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly ; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Page 200 - All well defined and several stinks! Ye Nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, the river Rhine, it is well known Doth wash your city of Koln, But tell me, Nymphs, what power Divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?
Page 16 - And of all the lovely closes that I ever beheld, that of Peterborough Cathedral is to me the most delightful ; so quiet it is, so solemnly and nobly cheerful, so verdant, so sweetly shadowed, and so presided over by the stately minster, and surrounded by ancient and comely habitations of Christian men.
Page 449 - With numerous Illustrations, including Pen and Pencil Drawings by JANE E. COOK. Old Touraine The Life and History of the Famous Chateaux of France.
Page 50 - It is the fashion to run down George IV, but what myriads of Londoners ought to thank him for inventing Brighton! One of the best physicians our city has ever known, is kind, cheerful, merry Doctor Brighton!
Page 292 - ... long he reached the magnificent glacier of the Rhone ; a frozen cataract, more than two thousand feet in height, and many miles broad at its base. It fills the whole valley between two mountains, running back to their summits. At the base it is arched, like a dome ; and above, jagged and rough, and resembles a mass of gigantic crystals of a pale emerald tint, mingled with white. A snowy crust covers its surface ; but at every rent and crevice the pale green ice shines clear in the sun.
Page 156 - The lower end forms a park, on either side of which are placed the Palais de l'Elysée and the two Palais des Beaux Arts, occupying the site of the old Palais de l'Industrie.
Page 93 - ... tongues of the natives of this locality were supposed to be not the ordinary gift of Nature. But it had not reached its full zenith of talismanic power until 1799, when Milliken wrote his well-known song of ' The Groves of Blarney.' A curious tradition attributes to the stone the power of endowing whoever kisses it with the sweet, persuasive, wheedling eloquence, so perceptible in the language of the Cork people...