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... contains the best hotels , and in the season has a cheerful and animated appearance . The port is spacious , and B is commanded by a citadel and castle . The principal CHAPTER I Routes to Paris-Boulogne-Paris-French Characteristics ...
... contains the best hotels , and in the season has a cheerful and animated appearance . The port is spacious , and B is commanded by a citadel and castle . The principal CHAPTER I Routes to Paris-Boulogne-Paris-French Characteristics ...
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... contains nothing of interest but its fine cathedral . The same may be said of Amiens , which , however , is a more tolerable place of residence . Beauvais , which is at some distance from the line , lies in a more agreeable part of the ...
... contains nothing of interest but its fine cathedral . The same may be said of Amiens , which , however , is a more tolerable place of residence . Beauvais , which is at some distance from the line , lies in a more agreeable part of the ...
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... contains nothing worthy of observation except the mausoleum erected to the Dauphin , the father of Louis XVI . , which CHAPTER II Lyons-The Rhone-Marseilles-Climate of Provence-Hieres-Cannes Nismes-Montpelier-Canal du Midi.
... contains nothing worthy of observation except the mausoleum erected to the Dauphin , the father of Louis XVI . , which CHAPTER II Lyons-The Rhone-Marseilles-Climate of Provence-Hieres-Cannes Nismes-Montpelier-Canal du Midi.
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... contains the Hotel de Ville , and a good museum of natural history . The largest , as well as the finest public edifice , is the hospital , which is surmounted by a dome , its facade occupying a considerable extent of the Quai du Rhone ...
... contains the Hotel de Ville , and a good museum of natural history . The largest , as well as the finest public edifice , is the hospital , which is surmounted by a dome , its facade occupying a considerable extent of the Quai du Rhone ...
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... contains little worthy of notice , except the principal street , which is very wide . Marseilles has a population of near 200,000 inhabitants . It ranks as the third city in France , and , like all large sea - ports , has a thronged and ...
... contains little worthy of notice , except the principal street , which is very wide . Marseilles has a population of near 200,000 inhabitants . It ranks as the third city in France , and , like all large sea - ports , has a thronged and ...
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Page 41 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 343 - The mouldering gateway strews the grass-grown court, Once the calm scene of many a simple sport; When nature pleased, for life itself was new, And the heart promised what the fancy drew.
Page 326 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely...
Page 115 - Rich marbles, richer painting — shrines where flame The lamps of gold — and haughty dome which vies In air with Earth's chief structures, though their frame Sits on the firm-set ground, and this the clouds must claim.
Page 326 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused.
Page 178 - Flung about carelessly, it shines afar, Catching the eye in many a broken link, In many a turn and traverse as it glides...
Page 221 - Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. 2 Father in heaven, O hear when we call ; Hear, for Christ's sake, who is Saviour of all; Feeble and fainting we trust in thy might, In doubting and darkness thy love be our light; Let us sleep on thy breast while the night taper burns, Wake in thy arms when morning returns.
Page 221 - FADING, still fading, the last beam is shining, Father in heaven ! the day is declining, Safety and innocence fly with the light, Temptation and danger walk forth with the night; From the fall of the shade till the morning bells chime, Shield me from danger, save me from crime.
Page 99 - In Santa Croce's holy precincts lie Ashes which make it holier, dust which is Even in itself an immortality, Though there were nothing save the past, and this, The particle of those sublimities Which have relapsed to chaos : — here repose Angelo's, Alfieri's bones, and his, The starry Galileo, with his woes ; Here Machiavelli's earth, returned to whence it rose.
Page 278 - There, interspersed in lawns and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades. Here in full light the russet plains extend : There wrapt in clouds the bluish hills ascend. Ev'n the wild heath displays her purple dyes, And 'midst the desert fruitful fields arise, That, crown'd with tufted trees and springing corn, Like verdant isles, the sable waste adorn.