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... Travellers , you know , are obliged to take all things good - temperedly . After all , wet weather has its advantages , and our passage across the North Sea was full of incident , novelty , and excitement . We left St. Katherine's Docks ...
... Travellers , you know , are obliged to take all things good - temperedly . After all , wet weather has its advantages , and our passage across the North Sea was full of incident , novelty , and excitement . We left St. Katherine's Docks ...
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... travelling was not so delightful as re- maining at home . The wind roared like thunder ; the beams of the vessel creaked with every tremendous lunge she gave : and whenever there came a quiet moment I could hear the merchant bewailing ...
... travelling was not so delightful as re- maining at home . The wind roared like thunder ; the beams of the vessel creaked with every tremendous lunge she gave : and whenever there came a quiet moment I could hear the merchant bewailing ...
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... travellers , long , long ago ? " Does any young lady in pork - pie hat and crinoline - does any young gentleman with spreading whiskers -- ever think of the Rhine , except as a pleasant thing to enjoy , and as a fashionable thing to.
... travellers , long , long ago ? " Does any young lady in pork - pie hat and crinoline - does any young gentleman with spreading whiskers -- ever think of the Rhine , except as a pleasant thing to enjoy , and as a fashionable thing to.
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... travellers , as we glide so smoothly by the scenes of their loves , and contests , and glories . Let us learn what kind of a world it was in which they lived and died . This old Rhineland has surely plenty of amusement and instruction ...
... travellers , as we glide so smoothly by the scenes of their loves , and contests , and glories . Let us learn what kind of a world it was in which they lived and died . This old Rhineland has surely plenty of amusement and instruction ...
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... traveller . The little happy children playing beneath the walls of Bacharach are , perhaps , descendants of St. Goar , that pious hermit who , in the seventh century , first taught the people to pray in Christ's name , and to forgive ...
... traveller . The little happy children playing beneath the walls of Bacharach are , perhaps , descendants of St. Goar , that pious hermit who , in the seventh century , first taught the people to pray in Christ's name , and to forgive ...
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ABSOLON admiration amused Andernach asked Auf wiedersehen baron beautiful beer Bonn boys bread brother carpet-bag castle Charlemagne cloth Coblentz coffee Cologne coloured cried dear delightful dinner dressed Eau de Cologne English Engravings eyes fairy fancy Fcap Frankfort Frau French friends Frontispiece garden gentlemen German giant gilt edges girls governess grand green hands happy HARRISON WEIR Harry hear heart Heidelberg hero Herr Hildegunde honour Hungry Hal Illustrations Jess Jugenheim kind knight lessons Lina live look Lurley Mentz merry Midsie morocco Neckar never Odenwald ourselves palace papa passed plain pleasant poor pretty Princess Pumpernickel Rhine rocks Roland Rüdesheim sausage Schloss silver Small 4to story Super Royal 16mo sure sweet table d'hôte tell thing THOMAS HOOD tiny towers town Uncle John village vineyards walk WEIR whilst wine women wonder young ladies
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Page 29 - Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven : The roof was fretted gold.
Page 103 - And in at the windows, and in at the door, And through the walls, by thousands they pour, And down from the ceiling, and up through the floor, From the right and the left, from behind and before, From within and without, from above and below, And all at once to the bishop they go.
Page 79 - By Coblentz, on a rise of gentle ground, There is a small and simple pyramid, Crowning the summit of the verdant mound; Beneath its base are heroes...
Page 29 - True Stories from Ancient History, chronologically arranged from the Creation of the World to the Death of Charlemagne. Twelfth Edition.
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