By-ways of EuropeG. P. Putnam and son, 1869 - 470页 |
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第363页 - ON THE SEA It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell Gluts twice ten thousand Caverns, till the spell Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound. Often 'tis in such gentle temper found, That scarcely will the very smallest shell Be moved for days from where it sometime fell, When last the winds of Heaven were unbound. Oh ye! who have your eye-balls vexed and tired, Feast them upon the wideness of the Sea; Oh ye!
第363页 - The brightness of the day increased the illusion, and made the incredible beauty of the cavern all the more startling, because devoid of gloom and mystery. It was an idyl of the sea, born of the god-lore of Greece.
第333页 - ... moment, wherein he speaks of his ancestors, is the poetical fragment : — " Stature from father, and the mood Stern views of life compelling; From mother I take the joyous heart, And the love of story-telling ; Great-grandsire's passion was the fair — What if I still reveal it? Great-grandam's was pomp, and gold, and show, And in my bones I feel it.
第401页 - Tartatch are the Corsican words. Here the scenery assumes a grand Alpine character. High over the nearer mountains rose the broken summits of Monte Padro and Capo Bianco, the snow-filled ravines glittering between their dark pinnacles of rock. On the south, a byroad wandered away through the chestnut-woods to Morosaglia ; villages with picturesque belfries overlooked the valley, and the savage macchia gave place to orchards of olive.
第464页 - ... Saviour leans against the countenance of the mother, and is gently supported by her hand — a beautiful reverent touch of expression which we find in no other representation of the subject." The drapery also, though stiff, has yet the simplicity and dignity which we so rarely find in modern art. Two of the rocks may be ascended by means of winding stairways cut in their sides. On the summit of the first there is a level platform, with a stone table in the centre — probably the work of the...
第129页 - Six old men, armed with pikes, walked about with an air of importance : their duty was to preserve order, but they had nothing to do. Policeman other than these, or soldier, was not to be seen ; each man was a part of the government, and felt his responsibility. Carriages, light carts, and hay wagons, the latter filled with patriotic singers, now began to arrive, and I took my way to the " Crown," in order to witness the arrival of the members of the Council. In order to make the proceedings of the...
第410页 - November, 1789, carried away by the republican movement in France, had voted that their island should be an integral part of the French nation. There was a general cry for Paoli, and in April 1790, he reached Paris. Lafayette was his friend and guide ; the National Assembly received him with every mark of respect ; the club of the Amis de la, Constitution seated him beside its President — Robespierre; Louis XVI. gave him an audience, and he was styled by the enthusiastic populace
第461页 - Hermann had married Thusnelda, daughter of Segestus, another chief of the Cheruski, who had reclaimed her by force in consequence of a quarrel, and was then besieged by his son-in-law. Segestus called the Romans to his aid, and delivered Thusnelda into their hands to grace, two years later, the triumph decreed to Germanicus. Hermann, infuriated by the loss of a wife whom he loved, summoned the tribes to war, and the Roman commander collected an army of eighty thousand men. The latter succeeded in...
第168页 - No sooner had the child . beheld the supposed animal, than it gave a loud cry and exclaimed : " Rise up, Juan Garin ; God has pardoned thee ! " Then, to the astonishment of all, the beast arose and spoke in a human tongue. He told his story, and the Count set out at once with him to the spot where Riquilda was buried. They opened the grave and the maiden rose up alive, with only a rosy mark, like a thread, around her neck. In commemoration of so many miracles, the Count founded the monastery. At...
第395页 - ... repute. Yet our first experience of them was by no means unprepossessing. We entered a bookstore, to get a map of the island. While I was examining it, an old gentleman, with the Legion of Honor in his button-hole, rose from his seat, took the sheet from my hands, and said...