Peeps at foreign countries, by the ed. [N. Macleod] and contributions to Good words etc1871 |
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... covered with many - coloured verdure , you find yourself in a vast natural cathedral , across whose blue roof ever and anon flies a black speck which you know to be a sea - gull . To the left of the village , you behold the tall cliffs ...
... covered with many - coloured verdure , you find yourself in a vast natural cathedral , across whose blue roof ever and anon flies a black speck which you know to be a sea - gull . To the left of the village , you behold the tall cliffs ...
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... its quaint burial - place , -a strange contrast to the pretentious little masonic impertinences that are begin- ning to cluster around it . Bleak and barren , covered with dark herbage , but without a tree , was WINTERING AT ÉTRETAT . 7.
... its quaint burial - place , -a strange contrast to the pretentious little masonic impertinences that are begin- ning to cluster around it . Bleak and barren , covered with dark herbage , but without a tree , was WINTERING AT ÉTRETAT . 7.
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... invaders a pass , by which they were enabled to take the patriots in the rear . In contrast to the wild grandeur of the hills , the valley is covered with fields of the richest pasture , as intensely green as 22 PEEPS AT FOREIGN COUNTRIES .
... invaders a pass , by which they were enabled to take the patriots in the rear . In contrast to the wild grandeur of the hills , the valley is covered with fields of the richest pasture , as intensely green as 22 PEEPS AT FOREIGN COUNTRIES .
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... . This gradually travelled up the pass , and ascended the hills , till it covered all the heights sur- rounding . At the same hour , about half - past one P.M. , on each occasion , a tremendous thunder - storm occurred A SUMMER IN NICE .
... . This gradually travelled up the pass , and ascended the hills , till it covered all the heights sur- rounding . At the same hour , about half - past one P.M. , on each occasion , a tremendous thunder - storm occurred A SUMMER IN NICE .
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... covered up by velvet drapery , placed there in honour of the Queen but really , one fine thing is enough at a time , and the cathedral is enough to admire by itself . Its finest external feature is the Moorish tower , called the ...
... covered up by velvet drapery , placed there in honour of the Queen but really , one fine thing is enough at a time , and the cathedral is enough to admire by itself . Its finest external feature is the Moorish tower , called the ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Alexander Column Alps appeared Arsta beautiful Blackfeet blue Canada church cliffs clouds coast colour Courmayeur Dalarö dance dark deep desert distance door England English Eskimo Étretat eyes feel feet fire fjord flowers French gaze Gibraltar give glacier green Greenland hands head hills islands Italy journey Kremlin ladies land light look miles Mont Blanc Montenegrin Moorish morning Moscow mountain never night noble Norway once palace passed peep Pignerol Protestantism railway reached Rephidim river road rock round Russia sail Saxenberg scene scenery seemed seen Serbal ship shore side smoke snow soon Spain St Dalmas St Petersburgh steamer streets summit Sweden things tion told town traveller trees valley village Waldensian walk walls whole wild wind winter women wood wooden young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 310 - And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O hark, O hear ! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going ! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing ! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Seite 403 - For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water : whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished : but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Seite 315 - I was left a trampled orphan, and a selfish uncle's ward. Or to burst all links of habit — there to wander far away, On from island unto island at the gateways of the day. Larger constellations burning, mellow moons and happy skies, Breadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster, knots of Paradise.
Seite 353 - Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Seite 406 - Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Seite 405 - Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded ; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity ; I will mock when your fear cometh ; when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind ; when distress and anguish cometh upon you : then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer ; they shall seek me eai'ly, but they shall not find me...
Seite 136 - As the vessel put out to sea, I kept my eyes upon him for a considerable time, while he remained rolling his majestic frame in his usual manner ; and at last I perceived him walk back into the town, and he disappeared.
Seite 353 - Behold also the ships, which, though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
Seite 404 - The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness : but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Seite 406 - Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.