Foster's Cabinet Miscellany: A Series of Publications on Various Subjects from the Latest and Most Approved Writers, Band 2Theodore Foster, 1836 |
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Seite 232 - twas trod Until his very steps have left a trace Worn as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard!' This part of the lake of Geneva has acquired additional celebrity by its being identified with the perverted genius of the ' self-torturing' sophist Rousseau, who has here laid the scenery of his romance. The magnificent and exquisite
Seite 30 - marriage festival: " And there was mounting in hot haste : the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the
Seite 82 - save to the crannying wind, Or holding dark communion with the cloud; There was a day when they were young and proud. Beneath these battlements, within those walls, Power dwelt amidst her passions ; in proud state Each robber chief upheld his armed halls, Doing his evil will, nor
Seite 76 - Above, the frequent feudal towers, Through green leaves lift their walls of gray, And many a rock which steeply lowers, And noble arch in proud decny, Look o'er this vale of vintage bowers. The river nobly foams and flows, The charm of this
Seite 133 - with snow— Farewell to the straths and preen valleys below ! Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods— Farewell to the torrents, and loud-pouring floods! My heart's in the Highlands—my heart is not here— My heart's in the Highlands
Seite 249 - minute-time, as if to enforce, with still greater effect, the advice which a great moralist thus impresses with equal truth and feeling: "Catch, oh catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer, man a flower— He dies, alas! how soon
Seite 171 - loud thundering down they come, A wintry waste in dire commotion all; And herds and flocks and travellers, and swains, And sometimes whole brigades of marching troops, Or hamlets, sleeping in the dead of night, Are deep beneath the smothering ruin
Seite 221 - long vale withdrawn, Where twilight loves to linger for a while. And now he faintly kens the bounding fawn, And villager abroad at early toil; But lo, the sun appears! and heaven, earth, ocean smile!
Seite 82 - a succession of gloomy and romantic lakes, and telling the legends of a thousand years. A blending of all beauties; streams and dells, Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, corn-field ; mountain, vine, And
Seite 184 - on Alps were still in reserve, in the boundless store-house of nature ; and chaos after chaos seemed to rise on all sides, in this remarkable country, to testify to the majesty and omnipotence of the Creator, and the insignificance of the puny creature man ! ' Who first beholds those everlasting clouds. Seed-time and harvest, morning, noon, and night, Still where