Change of Air; Or, The Diary of a Philosopher in Pursuit of Health and Recreation Illustrating the Beneficial Influence of Bodily Exercise, Change of Scene, Pure Air and Temporary Relaxation as Antidotes to the Wear and Tear of Education and AvocationHighley, 1831 - 300 páginas |
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... side by snow - clad Alps , which , at first sight , are taken for ranges of white clouds , presents one of the most magnificent views in Switzerland , or in the world . The sublime and the beautiful are here protended before the eye ...
... side by snow - clad Alps , which , at first sight , are taken for ranges of white clouds , presents one of the most magnificent views in Switzerland , or in the world . The sublime and the beautiful are here protended before the eye ...
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... side of the Rock of Gibraltar , the spectator being placed near O'Hara's Tower - LADDER HILL in St. Helena , looking down from the Battery into the sea - and the Cliffs overhanging the Mediterranean , on several parts of the new road ...
... side of the Rock of Gibraltar , the spectator being placed near O'Hara's Tower - LADDER HILL in St. Helena , looking down from the Battery into the sea - and the Cliffs overhanging the Mediterranean , on several parts of the new road ...
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... side of the Channel , except beneath the shadow of the mournful cypress or funereal yew - and that at the expense of the peaceful OLIVE ! May the latter be cultivated exclusively by France and England dur- ing the remainder of the ...
... side of the Channel , except beneath the shadow of the mournful cypress or funereal yew - and that at the expense of the peaceful OLIVE ! May the latter be cultivated exclusively by France and England dur- ing the remainder of the ...
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... sides - lighted its lamps - spread carpets on its floors - silver forks on its tables ―nay , constructed water - closets in ... side , with mud in Winter , and sand in Summer ; less calculated to " speed the soft intercourse " among her ...
... sides - lighted its lamps - spread carpets on its floors - silver forks on its tables ―nay , constructed water - closets in ... side , with mud in Winter , and sand in Summer ; less calculated to " speed the soft intercourse " among her ...
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... sides of the Channel , that the French eat less than the English . I shall here quote an authority that will hardly be questioned , in support of the opinion , or rather the fact , which I have adduced in oppo- sition to this prejudice ...
... sides of the Channel , that the French eat less than the English . I shall here quote an authority that will hardly be questioned , in support of the opinion , or rather the fact , which I have adduced in oppo- sition to this prejudice ...
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admiration Alps AMPHITHEATRE ancient animal Apennines arch ARCH OF TITUS atmosphere banks Baveno beautiful beneath body Bologna Cæsar Campagna Campagna di Roma Capitol carriage climate CLOACA MAXIMA CLOACINA contemplation countenance cretinism descended earth effects England English erected Eternal City Eustace excitement exhalations feelings fertile Florence France gallery Genoa gloomy goitre head Heaven hills holy human imagination impressions influence inhabitants intellectual invalid Italian Italy journey labour Lady Morgan lake less Lombardy magnificent malaria marble Milan miles mind modern moral mountains murder Naples nature neighbouring night objects palaces pass pellagra philosopher plains pleasure poet poison Pompeii present Radicofani river road rocks Roman Rome ruins scarcely scene scenery seen shew side sight Simplon sirocco skies snow soil streets summit surface temple THERMÆ thing thousand Tiber tion torrent tower town tramontane traveller valley Venus villages walls whole winds wonder
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Página 12 - He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Página 12 - tis true, this god did shake : His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried ' Give me some drink, Titinius,
Página 21 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Página 254 - Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee ; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Página 2 - Twas his the vast and trackless Deep to rove : Alternate change of Climates has he known, And felt the fierce extremes of either zone, Where polar Skies congeal th...
Página 44 - No, never shall I lose the trace Of what I've felt in this bright place. And, should my spirit's hope grow weak, Should I, oh God, e'er doubt thy power, This mighty scene again I'll seek, At the same calm and glowing hour, And here, at the sublimest shrine That Nature ever rear'd to Thee, Rekindle all that hope divine, And feel my immortality ! EXTRACT II.
Página 94 - It fills the mind with new ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues longest in action without being tired.
Página 94 - Now, in travelling we multiply events, and innocently. We set out, as it were, on our adventures ; and many are those that occur to us, morning, noon, and night. The day we come to a place which we have long heard and read off — as in Italy we do continually — it is an era in our lives ; and from that moment the very name calls up a picture.
Página 94 - Would he who sat in a corner of his library, poring over books and maps, learn more or so much in the time, as he who, with his eyes and his heart open, is receiving impressions all day long from the things themselves...
Página 61 - Hector first of Troy. As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's round fragment flies, with fury borne, (Which from the stubborn stone a torrent rends) Precipitate the pond'rous...