 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 436 Seiten
...breath ; if on one side, you must pick your way no less cautiously. Paris is a vast pile of tall and dirty alleys, of slaughter-houses and barbers' shops...quays, the boulevards, and their immediate vicinity. Paris, where you can get a sight of it, is really fine. The view from the bridges is even more imposing... | |
 | 1830 - 696 Seiten
...stone, six or seven stories high, and are all, in the central parts of the city, dirty and unsighK ly. " Paris (says a late writer) is a vast collection of...and where all that is fit to live in, and best worth lookiug at, is turned out upon the quays, the boulevards, and their immediate vicinity." — This,... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1902 - 264 Seiten
...all this and worse, and, with a change of scene, you are in Paris. " Paris is a vast pile of tall and dirty alleys, of slaughterhouses and barbers' shops...in, and best worth looking at, is turned out upon quays, the boulevards, and their immediate vicinity." Over the garden of the Tuileries he grows eloquent,... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1902 - 258 Seiten
...you are in Paris. " Paris is a vast pile of tall and dirty alleys, of slaughterhouses and baibers' shops — an immense suburb huddled together within...in, and best worth looking at, is turned out upon quays, the boulevards, and their immediate vicinity." *• Over the garden of the Tuileries he grows... | |
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Paris is a vast pile of tall and dirty alleys, of slaughter-houses and barbers' shops — an immense suburb huddled together within the walls so close, that you cannot see the loftiness of the buildings for the narrowness of the streets, and where all... 