Winter in the South of Europe: Or, Mentone, the Riviera, Corsica, Sicily, and Biarritz, as Winter ClimatesJ. Churchill & Sons, 1865 - 442 pàgines |
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Winter in the South of Europe: Or, Mentone, the Riviera, Corsica, Sicily ... James Henry Bennet Visualització completa - 1865 |
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Pàgina 37 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Pàgina 149 - Ah, what a life were this ! how sweet ! how lovely ! Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings, that fear their subjects
Pàgina 64 - And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not. And it came to pass in the meanwhile, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain.
Pàgina 413 - DR. DJT FRANCIS. CHANGE OF CLIMATE; considered as a Remedy in Dyspeptic, Pulmonary, and other Chronic Affections; with an Account of the most Eligible Places of Residence for Invalids in Spain, Portugal, Algeria...
Pàgina 64 - And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times. 44 And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said. Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand.
Pàgina 122 - The cool, but pleasant temperature, the stimulating influence of the sunshine, the general absence of rain or of continued rain, the dryness of the air, render daily exercise out of doors both possible and agreeable.
Pàgina 429 - If in some things greater latitude may be permitted, others will demand even a more rigid attention. It is, in truth, only by a due regard to all these circumstances that the powers of the constitution can be enabled to throw off, or even materially mitigate, in the best climate, a disease of long standing.
Pàgina 152 - As though it were not, though it had not been ! He lingers yet ; and, lessening to a point, Shines like the eye of Heaven — then withdraws ; And from the zenith to the utmost skirts All is celestial red ! The hour is come When they that sail along the distant seas Languish...
Pàgina 82 - Peiraeus, a robust, stern-looking man, bearing the aplustre of a ship, which he seems to push before him. The Romans, who usually copied the Greeks, gave dusky pinions to Libs, in allusion to its changeful energies, being by turns hot, cold, dry, rainy, serene, and stormy...
Pàgina 12 - ... several nights consecutively near the seashore, and at the outlet of the torrent beds, especially in the western bay. This bay is less sheltered than the eastern bay, and is visited at times by cool draughts through the valley known as the " Turin Valley." From sixteen years' observations, Dr Bennet gives 52° as the mean temperature at Mentone for the six winter months.