A Pilgrimage Into Dauphiné: Comprising a Visit to the Monastery of the Grande Chartreuse; with Anecdotes, Incidents, and Sketches from Twenty Departments of France, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1857 - Dauphiné (France) |
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acquaintance afterwards Aix-les-Bains ancient Angerville appeared banks beautiful began beheld Bourges breadth Bresse Bruno Burgundy Burgundy wine café au lait carriage Carthusian Cathedral century Chambéry chapel Chartres Chartreuse Choisy-le-Roi church cloister Clos Clos Vougeot coloured Côte d'Or cultivated Dauphiné distance district England English entered exhibit favour fifty five four France French gallery Gaul Grenoble Grésivaudan height Hôtel du Nord hundred feet inches Isère Julius Cæsar labour land Laurent du Pont length liqueurs living lodging loom Luggage Lyonnese Lyons Macon mass mention miles monastery monks Monsieur monument mountain night o'clock occasion Orleans palace Paris PILGRIMAGE plain present quarter quays railway render resembling Rheims Rhone river rock Roman Saone Savoy seemed side station stone stood stream streets taste thousand tion town traveller trees twelve twenty upwards vast village vineyards Vougeot whole wine
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Page 275 - Brief, brave, and glorious was his young career, — His mourners were two hosts, his friends and foes; And fitly may the stranger lingering here Pray for his gallant spirit's bright repose; For he was Freedom's champion, one of those, The few in number, who had not o'erstept The charter to chastise which she bestows On such as wield her weapons; he had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.
Page 263 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus: but use all gently: for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness.
Page iii - He sucks intelligence in every clime, And spreads the honey of his deep research At his return — a rich repast for me.
Page 159 - At last the rous'd-up river pours along : Resistless, roaring, dreadful, down it comes, From the rude mountain, and the mossy wild, Tumbling through rocks abrupt, and sounding far; Then o'er the sanded valley floating spreads, Calm, sluggish, silent ; till again...
Page 232 - But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church.
Page 150 - Maternal Nature ! for who teems like thee, Thus on the banks of thy majestic Rhine ? There Harold gazes on a work divine, A blending of all beauties ; streams and dells, Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, cornfield, mountain, vine, And chiefless castles breathing stern farewells From gray but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells.
Page 169 - How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
Page 97 - Saone, — the one a gentle, feeble, languid stream, and though languid of no depth *, — the other a boisterous and impetuous torrent, — but different as they are they meet at last, — and long...
Page 80 - No more — but hasten to thy tasks at home, There guide the spindle, and direct the loom: Me glory summons to the martial scene, The field of combat is the sphere for men. Where heroes war, the foremost place I claim, The first in danger as the first in fame.