The Metropolitan, Volume 36James Cochrane, 1843 |
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... roads showed less of the continental aversion to parapet walls than they do . You are not long in quitting Inns- bruck before you find yourself skimming the brink of extremely ill- favoured precipices , with a free passage open for you ...
... roads showed less of the continental aversion to parapet walls than they do . You are not long in quitting Inns- bruck before you find yourself skimming the brink of extremely ill- favoured precipices , with a free passage open for you ...
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... road . In the steep face of the cliff a hollow , in the hollow a chapel , in the chapel's front a crucifix , mark the spot where the emperor Maximilian was saved from one of these same somersets by a poor peasant , who was rewarded for ...
... road . In the steep face of the cliff a hollow , in the hollow a chapel , in the chapel's front a crucifix , mark the spot where the emperor Maximilian was saved from one of these same somersets by a poor peasant , who was rewarded for ...
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... road grows hilly too- no pleasant event , since , whether up hill or down hill , continental postilions always crawl when they can . With the flaming sun cast , by a turn of the road , in our front , and the fierce wind , by the same ...
... road grows hilly too- no pleasant event , since , whether up hill or down hill , continental postilions always crawl when they can . With the flaming sun cast , by a turn of the road , in our front , and the fierce wind , by the same ...
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... road soon turned , the vale widened , ( near Ober Meiningin , ) and with the sun behind , the wind in front , all was well again . So goes the road through more than the Innthal . The old similitude of life with its vi- cissitudes to a ...
... road soon turned , the vale widened , ( near Ober Meiningin , ) and with the sun behind , the wind in front , all was well again . So goes the road through more than the Innthal . The old similitude of life with its vi- cissitudes to a ...
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... road , may be some ninety miles . The river trots by the road the greater part of the way , and , being thus rapid , the elevation insensibly gained must be considerable . Rivers , in fact , with their slow but ceaseless labour , are ...
... road , may be some ninety miles . The river trots by the road the greater part of the way , and , being thus rapid , the elevation insensibly gained must be considerable . Rivers , in fact , with their slow but ceaseless labour , are ...
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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...