Journal of a tour in Germany, Sweden, Russia, Poland, during ... 1813 and 1814, Volum 2 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 1 - ... carried to such a degree, as would be wholly incompatible with his situation, if the government were of any other form than that of an absolute monarchy.
Pàgina 326 - Ypoote : a raft of trees loosely pinned together was provided for the purpose of transport ; a rope made from the bark of trees served for its draught : on either bank of the river rose a vast forest, not thick and luxuriant, but bared in many a line by the progress of age and decay : amidst its shades were seen the white shirts and black fur caps of the Tartars as they scampered along in the wantonness of sport, with their horses at full speed : their caravan, just arrived, was ranged on the river...
Pàgina 349 - ... peruse the will and codicil with much earnestness and apparent chagrin. The moral of the tale needs no explanation. The profound respect and awe impressed on the countenance of every one we met lent an air of solemnity even to their ludicrous superstitions ; and a stranger almost felt inclined to chide himself for making a visit of mere curiosity. Our meditations, however, on this singular spectacle were interrupted by our guide arriving to inform us the priest was waiting to conduct us to the...
Pàgina 173 - ... only to heighten its melancholy aspect. Leaving this, we passed to the central parts of the town that were constructed with more durable materials, exhibiting occasionally a richness and elegance of exterior that must have equalled, if not surpassed, the architectural magnificence of the most beautiful towns of Europe. But all was now in the same forlorn condition ; street after street greeted the eye with perpetual ruin ; disjointed columns, mutilated porticos, broken cupolas, walls of rugged...
Pàgina 349 - Russian vocabulary, the terms beautiful, red and coloured are all three represented by the same word, so that a confusion of ideas might easily occur. On another side an old miser is seen on his death-bed: the company surrounding him are, as before, angels and devils; the latter are very urgent to seize upon his parting soul, but prevented by the former, who claim him to themselves, because, forsooth, he had bequeathed a large sum by will to the monastery. The devils, thus disappointed, peruse the...
Pàgina 203 - Czars ; with the lofty steeple of Ivan Veliki towering far above them all, and reflecting the beams of the sun from a globe of gold. The palace of the Czars does not boast an antiquity of more than two hundred years, but it is an edifice raised with princely costliness in the Hindu fashion, and marked with every peculiarity of massive squareness in the carve-work with which that style abounds.
Pàgina 82 - As the hour of twelve approached, all eyes were earnestly bent on the sanctuary, and a dead silence reigned throughout ; at. length the door opened, when there issued forth a long train of banners, crosses, &c.; with archimandrites, protopopes, and priests of all ranks, dressed in their sumptuous robes of embroidered silk...
Pàgina 122 - ... therefore, on this day on our journey for Moscow. A few versts from the city barriers introduced to our notice the wooden road constructed by Peter the Great to his new built city :^ it is of singular construction, an elevated causeway, carried in one long, level, unvarying, straight line for many a league, over marsh and bog, and through thick forests of birch and fir. On each side is an esplanade, cleared for the breadth of about a hundred yards, for the accommodation of cattle coming up for...
Pàgina 201 - ... formed out of the cannon taken from the French forms part of the design. The imperial palace, which stands on a point commanding the whole town, was the residence, as before stated, of Buonaparte: but even these walls, that had formed his abode, were given to destruction by his orders, and now shewed themselves in the most forlorn condition, stripped of every article, and completely gutted from top to bottom. The same scene of waste was exhibited in an interesting antique edifice, containing...
Pàgina 356 - Gostinnoi (Ivor, or square market-place, which we see in every town, constructed with double arcades, one above the other, as in an eastern bazar ; the thick baluster-shaped column, the pagoda fashion of the old steeples, the facades adorned with painted and glazed tiles, the bulging form of the cupola, and its situation in the centre of the building, surrounded by four smaller ones, all peculiarities common throughout the Mohammedan countries of the east, will sufficiently prove from what quarter...