The Metropolitan, Volume 36James Cochrane, 1843 |
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... Italy the twenty - third September . Innsbruck , the capital of Tyrol , lies down in a nest of hills - couched down like a she wolf in her lair . It is even said that wolves in winter time survey the citizens from their summits , look ...
... Italy the twenty - third September . Innsbruck , the capital of Tyrol , lies down in a nest of hills - couched down like a she wolf in her lair . It is even said that wolves in winter time survey the citizens from their summits , look ...
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... Italian neigh- bourhood . Nor , with what else that is Italian , is the atmosphere without Italian purity too , Italian limpidity , light , and colour . The air is warm and bland , and , through the clear ether , cones immeasurably ...
... Italian neigh- bourhood . Nor , with what else that is Italian , is the atmosphere without Italian purity too , Italian limpidity , light , and colour . The air is warm and bland , and , through the clear ether , cones immeasurably ...
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... Italy , the gigantic masses of the higher Alps come into view at intervals , but it is only at intervals . There is a charm in this mystic and fitful apparition of their colossal forms , dim , remote , aerial as they are . Closer and ...
... Italy , the gigantic masses of the higher Alps come into view at intervals , but it is only at intervals . There is a charm in this mystic and fitful apparition of their colossal forms , dim , remote , aerial as they are . Closer and ...
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... Italian wars , is among the most repulsive events in modern annals . Approaching Landek , an angle of the pass , the river boils obstre- perously enough . From Innsbruck to Landek by the road , may be some ninety miles . The river trots ...
... Italian wars , is among the most repulsive events in modern annals . Approaching Landek , an angle of the pass , the river boils obstre- perously enough . From Innsbruck to Landek by the road , may be some ninety miles . The river trots ...
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... Italy , leads off to the left . Lead on , we follow - im- patient for the Finstermünz and the Ortler . The Stelvio has a noble portal in the scenery you enter from Lan- dek . Dark rocks , near and drear , frown down soon upon you from ...
... Italy , leads off to the left . Lead on , we follow - im- patient for the Finstermünz and the Ortler . The Stelvio has a noble portal in the scenery you enter from Lan- dek . Dark rocks , near and drear , frown down soon upon you from ...
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Page 319 - ... the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.
Page 80 - ... when such a man would speak, his words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.
Page 54 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Page 254 - twas, but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it : that song to-night Will not go from my mind ; I have much to do, But to go hang my head all at one side, And sing it like poor Barbara.
Page 320 - The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her. She will do him good, and not evil, all the days of her life.
Page 7 - that the Christian religion should become universal amongst us. I look at the wisdom of these worshippers of Jehovah, and see how superior they are to us in every respect. Their ships are like floating houses, so that they can traverse the tempest-driven ocean for months with perfect safety...
Page 318 - There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.
Page 101 - On these thy spirit loved to dwell Untainted by the world's control. My brother, those were happy days When thou and I were children yet ; How fondly memory still surveys Those scenes the heart can ne'er forget...
Page 319 - I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship to a woman, whether civilized or savage, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and...