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... Lake Constance , although we rarely catch a glimpse of its broad bosom ; but at last we enter the little town of Bregenz , built on the south - east shore of the lake . Near Bregenz is the castle of Pfannenberg , situated on a rock ...
... Lake Constance , although we rarely catch a glimpse of its broad bosom ; but at last we enter the little town of Bregenz , built on the south - east shore of the lake . Near Bregenz is the castle of Pfannenberg , situated on a rock ...
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... lake is greatly influenced by the melting of the Alpine snows . Sometimes it rises six or eight feet in a few days , and sometimes , though rarely , upwards of twenty ... LAKE CONSTANCE . 251 on a calm , clear day 250 TRAVELLING SKETCHES .
... lake is greatly influenced by the melting of the Alpine snows . Sometimes it rises six or eight feet in a few days , and sometimes , though rarely , upwards of twenty ... LAKE CONSTANCE . 251 on a calm , clear day 250 TRAVELLING SKETCHES .
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LAKE CONSTANCE . 251 on a calm , clear day , we could fancy no better employment than to lie down on one of these verdant slopes before us , and dream away an hour on the banks of Lake Constance . The road from Bregenz to Saint Gall ...
LAKE CONSTANCE . 251 on a calm , clear day , we could fancy no better employment than to lie down on one of these verdant slopes before us , and dream away an hour on the banks of Lake Constance . The road from Bregenz to Saint Gall ...
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... Lake Constance , which is visible at a short walk from the houses . It is a busy , ANNOYING CIVILITY . 253 bustling town , where the noise The Banks of the Rhine 252 The Banks of the Rhine 252.
... Lake Constance , which is visible at a short walk from the houses . It is a busy , ANNOYING CIVILITY . 253 bustling town , where the noise The Banks of the Rhine 252 The Banks of the Rhine 252.
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... lake , and reach the town of Constance . It was here that the famous council was held in 1414 , to determine which of three rival popes was the legitimate son of Saint Peter . The hall where the council sat is still shown ; and , what ...
... lake , and reach the town of Constance . It was here that the famous council was held in 1414 , to determine which of three rival popes was the legitimate son of Saint Peter . The hall where the council sat is still shown ; and , what ...
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Page 132 - And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Page 5 - With the silent Bushboy alone by my side, Away, away, in the wilderness vast Where the white man's foot hath never passed, And the quivered Coranna or Bechuan Hath rarely crossed with his roving clan, — A region of emptiness, howling and drear, Which man hath abandoned from famine and fear...
Page 146 - The proposition that the earth is not the centre of the world, nor immoveable, but that it moves, and also with a diurnal motion, is also absurd, philosophically false, and, theologically considered, equally erroneous in faith.
Page 6 - Is the pilgrim's fare by the salt lake's brink : A region of drought, where no river glides, Nor rippling brook with osiered sides ; Where sedgy pool, nor bubbling fount, Nor tree, nor cloud, nor misty mount, Appears to refresh the aching eye ; But the barren earth, and the burning sky, And the blank horizon, round and round, Spread — void of living sight or sound.
Page 5 - Hath rarely crossed with his roving clan : A region of emptiness, howling and drear, Which Man hath abandoned from famine and fear ; Which the snake and the lizard inhabit alone, With the twilight bat from the yawning stone ; Where grass, nor herb, nor shrub takes root, Save poisonous thorns that pierce the foot...
Page 102 - ... Francesco, from that day — and — " He wiped away a tear, as he looked upon the soiled and neglected apparel, and the haggard and ghastly face, of the young man — " No matter — my word is plighted — farewell. — Now call my daughter," added he, "and I pray God that the business of this night end in no ill !" Francesco lingered at the door. He would fain have seen but the skirt of Lelia's mantle before departing ! " She is not in her room !
Page 97 - ... weakness. Even her bodily health received its direction from her mind. Her nerves seemed to recover their tone, her cheek its hue, and her eye its brilliancy. The cold and sluggish imagination of a man is unacquainted with half the resources of a woman in such circumstances. Disappointed in her...
Page 81 - He says, we know not on what authority, that on repairing to the spot indicated by the light, "if they find any decomposed flints, they conceive strong hopes of success." detained all night at a cottage in one of its wildest defiles, by a storm which rendered my horses ungovernable. While leaning upon a bench, and looking with drowsy curiosity towards the window — for there was no bed except my host's, of which I did not choose to deprive him — I saw a small, faint...
Page 99 - cried he in amazement, mingled with superstitious terror, as he recognised the features of his young fair mistress. " Waste not time in words," said she ; " much may yet be done, and I have the most perfect assurance that now at least I am not deceived. Up, and be of good heart ! Work, for here is light. I will sit down in the shelter, bleak though it be, of the cliff, and aid you with my prayers, since I cannot with my hands.
Page 84 - ... inspired her ; and, in truth, she listened to the tales that from time to time reached her ear, of the young gold-seeker, with somewhat of the vague and distant interest with which we attend to descriptions of a beautiful but wild and cruel animal of another hemisphere. There came one at last, however, to whom poor Lelia listened. She was sitting alone, according to her usual custom, at the bottom of her father's garden, singing, while 'she plied her knitting-needle, in the soft, low tone peculiar...