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What people are saying - Write a reviewWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesAgordo ALBENGA Alpine Alps Altenahr Anseremme Ardennes ascent Badenweiler baths beautiful belo Black Forest Bludenz blue brot carriage castle cathedral Cauterets charming church climb color Cossogno Coucy-le-Chateau crags Crinkle Crags dark delightful Dinant distance district Dunmail Raise Eifel English enuf excursions Falmignoul feet flowers France FRANCONIAN SWITZERLAND French garden Germany glacier gorge grand gray green hight hills houses Italian Italy journey Kirk Fell Lago Maggiore lake leaving Loch look lovely Maggia valley Meuse miles Monte morning mountains narro night once path peak picturesq pine plain pleasant precipices railway reached Rhein river Riviera road rock round ruins scene scenery Schruns seemed seen side slopes Spain spot steep stone stream streets summit Switzerland thot tourist tower town traveler trees turned valley village walk walls wild wind woods Popular passagesPage 14 - Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires! Page 49 - ... trees peeping out from the gardens behind. At last we stopped before the Erbprinz, an inn of long standing in the heart of the town, and were ushered along heavy-looking in-and-out corridors, such as are found only in German inns, into rooms which overlooked a garden just like one you may see at the back of a farmhouse in many an English village. A walk in the morning in search of lodgings confirmed the impression that "Weimar was more like a market-town than the precinct of a Court. " And this... Page iii - His legions, angel forms, who lay entranced, Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades, High overarched, embower... Page 16 - And thus it is in a few minutes with us. In less time than it takes to write these lines, the whole aspect of the mountain has changed. The clouds have come up from the valleys, and we are under a veil of mist. Page 16 - Vienna would do well to turn aside for a few days and explore a region about which scarcely anything seems to be known. If the tourist refers to his handbook for Northern Germany, he will there be told that it is hardly worth the while of the hunter after the picturesque who has seen other parts of Europe to go far out of his way to explore the Harz, unless he be a geologist, or interested in mining operations, and he will learn that this, the most northerly range of mountains in Germany, is only... Page 33 - ... they feel the loss of their noses, their toes, and their crowns ; and that, when the long June twilight turns at last to a deeper gray and the quiet of the close to a deeper stillness, they begin to peer sidewise out of their narrow recesses, and to converse in some strange form of early English, as rigid, yet as candid, as their features and postures, moaning, like a company of ancient paupers round a hospital fire, over their aches and infirmities and losses, and the sadness of being so terribly... Page 14 - The shadow of the mountain is reflected against the perpendicular face of the rising vapour as it were against a gigantic wall. The inn then becomes a palace in size, and the human beings on the summit become giants. Page 19 - ... sentimental and literary. I must declare indeed that my acquaintance with Ravenna considerably increased my esteem for Byron and helped to renew my faith in the sincerity of his inspiration. A man so much de son temps as the author of the above-named and other pieces can have spent two long years in this stagnant city only by the help of taking a great deal of disinterested pleasure in his own genius. Bibliographic information
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