Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1914 - Europe |
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... .. .. 3335 27 30 33 .. 37 44 51 .. EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE - By Frederick A. Talbot .. 54 THE CAPITAL OF THE BRITISH , SAXON AND NORMAN KINGS - By William Howitt .. 61 VI - SCOTLAND EDINBURGH - By Robert Louis Stevenson HOLYROOD.
... .. .. 3335 27 30 33 .. 37 44 51 .. EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE - By Frederick A. Talbot .. 54 THE CAPITAL OF THE BRITISH , SAXON AND NORMAN KINGS - By William Howitt .. 61 VI - SCOTLAND EDINBURGH - By Robert Louis Stevenson HOLYROOD.
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... king of rocky Cum- berland . " The immediate grounds in which his house stands are worthy of the country and the man . It is , as its name implies , a mount . Before the house opens a considerable platform , and around and beneath lie ...
... king of rocky Cum- berland . " The immediate grounds in which his house stands are worthy of the country and the man . It is , as its name implies , a mount . Before the house opens a considerable platform , and around and beneath lie ...
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... King John upon the great charter of English freedom , by which , Hume truly but coldly says , " very important lia- bilities and privileges were either granted or se- cured to every order of men in the kingdom ; to the clergy , to the ...
... King John upon the great charter of English freedom , by which , Hume truly but coldly says , " very important lia- bilities and privileges were either granted or se- cured to every order of men in the kingdom ; to the clergy , to the ...
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... king . There was a poetic feeling in whoever planted the bank of " Forget - me - not " just at the entrance to the low apartment which was fitted up to contain the charter stone , by the late Simon Harcourt , Esq . , in the year 1835 ...
... king . There was a poetic feeling in whoever planted the bank of " Forget - me - not " just at the entrance to the low apartment which was fitted up to contain the charter stone , by the late Simon Harcourt , Esq . , in the year 1835 ...
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... king . In the Clarendon are the University Council Chamber and the Registry . Once it was the University press , but the press has now a far larger mansion yonder to the northwest , whence , besides works of learning and science , go ...
... king . In the Clarendon are the University Council Chamber and the Registry . Once it was the University press , but the press has now a far larger mansion yonder to the northwest , whence , besides works of learning and science , go ...
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Abbey Abbotsford altho amid ancient arch Arthur's Seat banks beautiful Ben Lomond Blarney bridge broad Brontë Buchan buildings built Burns Burns's castle cathedral Causeway church College cottage court Dickens door Dryburgh DRYBURGH ABBEY Dublin edifice Edinburgh Eildon Hills England English enter entrance erected famous garden gate gateway Giant's GIANT'S CAUSEWAY GLASTONBURY ABBEY Gothic grave gray green ground height Highland hills Holyrood HOLYROOD ABBEY HOLYROOD PALACE Ireland Irish island James king lady lake land Limerick Linlithgow Loch Loch Katrine Lomond look Lord Lord of Lauderdale lovely Mary Melrose MELROSE ABBEY miles monument mountains Palace passed plain poet river road rock roof ruins scene scenery Scotch Scotland Scott shore side Sir Walter Smailholme Tower spot stands stone Stonehenge street tion tomb tower town trees village walk wall WILLIAM HOWITT window wood
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Page 5 - Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne; — Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." ["There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.
Page 126 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge., and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate...
Page 31 - Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays...
Page 24 - The bottom is paved with simple pebble, as is also the adjoining walk up the wilderness to the temple, in the natural taste, agreeing not ill with the little dripping murmur, and the aquatic idea of the whole place. It wants nothing to complete it, but a good statue with an inscription, like that beautiful antique one which you know I am so fond of...
Page 24 - I have put the last hand to my works of this kind, in happily finishing the subterraneous way and grotto. I there found a spring of the clearest water, which falls in a perpetual rill, that echoes through the Cavern day and night. From the river Thames, you see through my arch up a walk of the wilderness, to a kind of open temple, wholly composed of shells in the rustic manner ; and from that...
Page 30 - This famous deed, commonly called the " Great Charter," either granted or secured very important liberties and privileges to every order of men in the kingdom: to the clergy, to the barons, and to the people.
Page 70 - ... and brightest thoroughfare of the New Town. From their smoky beehives, ten stories high, the unwashed look down upon the open squares and gardens of the wealthy ; and gay people sunning themselves along Princes Street, with its mile of commercial palaces all beflagged upon some great occasion, see, across a gardened valley set with statues, where the washings of the Old Town flutter in the breeze at its high windows. And then, upon all sides, what a clashing of architecture! In this one valley,...
Page 102 - Ayr, where we spent the day in taking a farewell, before she should embark for the West Highlands, to arrange matters among her friends for our projected change of life.
Page 83 - At the railway-station we spent more than a weary hour, waiting for the train, which at last came up, and took us to Mauchline. We got into an omnibus, the only conveyance to be had, and drove about a mile to the village, where we established ourselves at the Loudoun Hotel, one of the veriest country -inns which we have found in Great Britain. The town of Mauchline, a place more redolent of Burns than almost any other, consists of a street or two of contiguous cottages, mostly white-washed, and with...
Page 24 - ... forms ; and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which, when a lamp (of an orbicular figure of thin alabaster) is hung in the middle, a thousand pointed rays glitter and are reflected over the place.