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... rain which falls throughout the year is about as great in the one as in the other capital . It would not , therefore , be advisable to select Paris as a winter residence for delicate invalids , or those whose cases require attention to ...
... rain which falls throughout the year is about as great in the one as in the other capital . It would not , therefore , be advisable to select Paris as a winter residence for delicate invalids , or those whose cases require attention to ...
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... rains . The towns are dirty and badly built , and the accommodation indifferent . Nothing but an oc- casional glimpse of the river and of the Cevennes range of hills on the opposite bank occurs to relieve the monotony of the route till ...
... rains . The towns are dirty and badly built , and the accommodation indifferent . Nothing but an oc- casional glimpse of the river and of the Cevennes range of hills on the opposite bank occurs to relieve the monotony of the route till ...
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... rain , the roads are consequently excessively dusty , and near the town are enclosed between high walls . The winter is usually very cold , the mistral or northern wind frequently prevailing , especially in the spring months , at which ...
... rain , the roads are consequently excessively dusty , and near the town are enclosed between high walls . The winter is usually very cold , the mistral or northern wind frequently prevailing , especially in the spring months , at which ...
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... rain ; in summer the heat is oppressive , and the dust lies thick upon the ground . The best period for a short ... rains sometimes continue for days together with but little intermission . To certain individuals , however , the climates ...
... rain ; in summer the heat is oppressive , and the dust lies thick upon the ground . The best period for a short ... rains sometimes continue for days together with but little intermission . To certain individuals , however , the climates ...
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... Rain not unfrequently falls , the weather being variable from day to day . In the autumnal months the weather is generally fine till Christmas . In spring , cold and damp winds are prevalent , frequently alternating with rain . The ...
... Rain not unfrequently falls , the weather being variable from day to day . In the autumnal months the weather is generally fine till Christmas . In spring , cold and damp winds are prevalent , frequently alternating with rain . The ...
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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.