Sketches of the Earth and Its Inhabitants: With One Hundred Engravings, Volume 2Cummings, Hilliard & Company, 1823 |
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... tion of a town life . This splendid and luxurious metropolis abounds in vice and misery . Beggars are numerous , and upwards of 100,000 , one seventh of the whole population , receive support from public charity ; and one third of the ...
... tion of a town life . This splendid and luxurious metropolis abounds in vice and misery . Beggars are numerous , and upwards of 100,000 , one seventh of the whole population , receive support from public charity ; and one third of the ...
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... tion . Their diversions are similar to those of the English ; but their gallantry is of a different complexion . Their attention to the fair degenerates into gross foppery in the men , and in the ladies it is kept up by admitting ...
... tion . Their diversions are similar to those of the English ; but their gallantry is of a different complexion . Their attention to the fair degenerates into gross foppery in the men , and in the ladies it is kept up by admitting ...
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... tion , because the scenery around is bleak and rugged , and every cheerful object , or fertile tract of country , is at a distance . Mont Blanc , when viewed from afar , presents the appearance of a majestic pyramid , a grand but not ...
... tion , because the scenery around is bleak and rugged , and every cheerful object , or fertile tract of country , is at a distance . Mont Blanc , when viewed from afar , presents the appearance of a majestic pyramid , a grand but not ...
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... tion of travellers . " About three miles below Schaffhausen , " says Mr. Si- mond , 66 we saw , at a distance , the rapids of the Rhine above its fall ; and leaving our vehicle we proceeded on foot to the spot , where from a height we ...
... tion of travellers . " About three miles below Schaffhausen , " says Mr. Si- mond , 66 we saw , at a distance , the rapids of the Rhine above its fall ; and leaving our vehicle we proceeded on foot to the spot , where from a height we ...
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... tion in Spain , than in most other countries of Europe . I should be glad , says Mr. Jacob , if I could give as fa- vourable a picture of the higher orders of society in this country ; but perhaps when we consider their wretched ...
... tion in Spain , than in most other countries of Europe . I should be glad , says Mr. Jacob , if I could give as fa- vourable a picture of the higher orders of society in this country ; but perhaps when we consider their wretched ...
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Page 37 - 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, LXIII.
Page 50 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 50 - Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed...
Page 31 - Honour, that praise which real merit gains, Or e'en imaginary worth obtains, Here passes current ; paid from hand to hand, It shifts in splendid traffic round the land ; From courts to camps, to cottages it strays, And all are taught an avarice of praise ; They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem, Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
Page 49 - Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansions tread And force a churlish soil for scanty bread. No product here the barren hills afford But man and steel, the soldier and his sword...
Page 31 - To kinder skies, where gentler manners reign, I turn ; and France displays her bright domain. Gay sprightly land of mirth and social ease, Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please...
Page 132 - Ancient of days ! august Athena ! where, Where are thy men of might, thy grand in soul? Gone, — glimmering through the dream of things that were : First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and passed away, — is this the whole?
Page 285 - Before I had learned from the note the name and business of my visitor, I was struck with the manliness of his person, the breadth of his chest, the openness of his countenance, and the inquietude of his eye.
Page 121 - Tis Greece, but living Greece no more! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers, is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb; Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away!
Page 122 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...