At Home and Abroad: A Sketch-book of the Life, Scenery, and MenPutnam, 1860 - 500 Seiten |
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afterwards Alps Apolda appeared arch avenue BAYARD TAYLOR beautiful blue boat Burschenschaft called Cape Ray Cape Spear carriage castle cave character cheerful climbed cold crossed Danube dark deep descended Dilsberg dinner distance door Duke Erfurt eyes face forests Friedrichswerth garden German Gloggnitz Goethe Gotha grand gray green hall hand harbor head heard height hills hour island James Adger Jena Johns journey lady lake land landscape leave light living looked miles misty range morning mountains Mürzzuschlag nearly never Newfoundland night once passed picturesque plain pleasant Port-aux-Basques present reached rise river road rock roof rose Ruhla scenery shore side Smyrna stalactitic steamer stood stream streets Styx summer summit Thüringian tion took town trees Trieste valley village walked walls wind window Wolfssohn woods young
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Seite 133 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Seite 468 - Where falls not hail, or rain or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly ; but it lies Deep-meadowed, happy, fair with orchard-lawns And bowery hollows crowned with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Seite 47 - Jesus' sake, forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here: Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.
Seite 171 - Lonely — save when, by thy rippling tides, From thicket to thicket the angler glides; Or the simpler comes, with basket and book For herbs of power on thy banks to look; Or haply...
Seite 482 - A-swing with good tobacco in a net between the trees, With a negro lass to fan you, while you listened to the roar Of the breakers on the reef outside, that never touched the shore.
Seite 341 - He must be at least fifty years old," said Humboldt. "He is seventy," I answered, "but as young as ever." " Ah ! " said he, " I have lived so long that I have almost lost the consciousness of time. I belong to the age of Jefferson and Gallatin, and I heard of Washington's death while travelling in South America.
Seite 336 - ... name and object, and asking for an interview. Three days afterwards I received through the city post a reply in his own hand, stating that, although he was suffering from a cold which had followed his removal from Potsdam to the capital, he would willingly receive me, and appointed orite o'clock the next day for the visit.
Seite 335 - ... rendered necessary. Some of my works, I knew, had found their way into his hands : I was at the beginning of a journey which would probably lead me through regions which his feet had traversed and his genius illustrated, and it was not merely a natural • curiosity which attracted me towards him.
Seite 32 - Rest to weary hearts thou are most dear," sang a spirit shut out from Paradise ; but there can be no deeper rest than that which descends alike on heart, brain, and limbs. One must have whirled for a year or two in the very vortex of our American life, to taste the repose of the ocean in its refreshing fulness : " Duty and Care fade far away ; What Toil may be we cannot guess : As a ship anchored in a bay, As a cloud at summer noon astray, As water-blooms on a breezeless day — So the heart sleeps,...
Seite 19 - A YOUNG AUTHOR'S LIFE IN LONDON. I REACHED London for the second time about the middle of March, 1846, after a dismal walk through Normandy, and a stormy passage across the Channel. I stood upon London Bridge, in the raw mist and the falling twilight, with a franc and a half in my pocket, and deliberated what I should do. Weak from sea-sickness, hungry, chilled, and without a single acquaintance in the great city, my situation was about as hopeless as it is possible to conceive.