Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Italy, Band 15

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Seite 137 - To the broad column which rolls on, and shows More like the fountain of an infant sea Torn from the womb of mountains by the throes Of a new world, than only thus to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly With many windings through the vale : — look back ! Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in its track, Charming the eye with dread — a matchless cataract...
Seite 286 - CARL WEISS, Proprietor. THIS first-rate establishment, situated near the great Public Promenade, combines comfort with elegance, and has the advantage of possessing a spacious and beautiful garden. Two superior Table d'Hotes daily.
Seite 57 - GLASS Dinner Services. GLASS Dessert Services. GLASS Table Decorations. GLASS Flower Vases. GLASS Table Lamps. GLASS Lustres and Wall Lights. GLASS and Brass Chandeliers. CHINA Dinner Services. CHINA Dessert Services. CHINA Breakfast Services. CHINA Tea Services. CHINA Vases. CHINA and Parian Figures. CHINA Ornaments. Sole Agents for the Venice and Murano Glass Co.
Seite 60 - There is a glorious city in the sea; The sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing; and the salt sea-weed Clings to the marble of her palaces. No track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates! The path lies o'er the sea, Invisible: and from the land we went, As to a floating city — steering in, And gliding up her streets, as in a dream...
Seite 155 - You must believe that the temple of Feretrian Jove stood on the very foundations of this church, because Dionysius happens to place it on a summit of the Capitol. You must believe that the columns of the aisles supported the last temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, in other words, that granite was Pentelic marble.
Seite 272 - It is conducted under the immediate superintendence of the Proprietor, who endeavours, by the most strict attention and exceedingly Moderate Prices, to merit the continued patronage of Knglish and American visitors.
Seite 190 - Nilotic isle, and more to west, The realm of Bocchus to the Black-moor sea ; From the Asian kings, and Parthian among these, From India and the golden Chersonese, . And utmost Indian isle, Taprobane...
Seite xlii - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our Fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not: in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Seite 193 - Imprimis, a house, being in circumference a quarter of a mile, two feet and an inch ; the said house containing the following particulars, to wit, a great room. Item, another great room ; item, a bigger room ; item, another room ; item, a vast room ; item, a sixth of the same ; a seventh ditto ; an eighth as before ; a ninth as above-said ; a tenth (see No.
Seite 280 - Proprietor. — A new establishment, -*~^ in an open and airy situation, close to the Railway Station. Large and small apartments, scrupulously clean. Table d'Hote at 11 and 6 o'clock. Moderate charges. Chanibery is the route to India by "Mont Cenis," now recommended to families and tourists.

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