Gaieties and Gravities; a series of essays, comic tales and fugitive vagaries. Now first collected. By one of the authors of “Rejected Addresses” [Horatio Smith].Henry Colburn, 1825 - 1035 Seiten |
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... Mont Blanc ; and he who from this point has seeri the sun rise , and shower its glories upon the romantic and stupendous wonders with which he is encompassed , will not marvel that I shrink from the hopeless at- tempt of its description ...
... Mont Blanc ; and he who from this point has seeri the sun rise , and shower its glories upon the romantic and stupendous wonders with which he is encompassed , will not marvel that I shrink from the hopeless at- tempt of its description ...
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... Mont Blanc . If I cannot say , in newspaper phraseology , that the morning was ushered in with the ringing of bells , I may affirm that ten thousand were waving to and fro in the breezes of Heaven , for the lilies of the valley , and ...
... Mont Blanc . If I cannot say , in newspaper phraseology , that the morning was ushered in with the ringing of bells , I may affirm that ten thousand were waving to and fro in the breezes of Heaven , for the lilies of the valley , and ...
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... Mont Blanc ; and the glaciers , and the rocks of red porphyry and granite , and the valley of Cha- mouni , and that sea of diamonds , the Mer de Glace , gradually became clothed in gorgeous robes of light . As I contemplated the sea ...
... Mont Blanc ; and the glaciers , and the rocks of red porphyry and granite , and the valley of Cha- mouni , and that sea of diamonds , the Mer de Glace , gradually became clothed in gorgeous robes of light . As I contemplated the sea ...
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... Mont Blanc , and lo ! a huge avalanche , detaching itself from its summit , came thundering down into the valley below , making earth shake with the concussion . " Behold ! " I exclaimed , " He who overthroweth the horse and his rider ...
... Mont Blanc , and lo ! a huge avalanche , detaching itself from its summit , came thundering down into the valley below , making earth shake with the concussion . " Behold ! " I exclaimed , " He who overthroweth the horse and his rider ...
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... Mont Blanc ! Mont Blanc ! Mont Blanc ! Since witnessing this most impressive scene , I have read an account of the Coronation of " an island- monarch throned in the west , " with all its circum- stantial detail of Dukes , Marquesses ...
... Mont Blanc ! Mont Blanc ! Mont Blanc ! Since witnessing this most impressive scene , I have read an account of the Coronation of " an island- monarch throned in the west , " with all its circum- stantial detail of Dukes , Marquesses ...
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