Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volum 5Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1914 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 11 - Within the walls the greater part of Frankfort is built in the old German style — the houses six or seven stories high, and every story projecting out over the other, so that those living in the attics can nearly shake hands out of the windows. At the corners...
Pàgina xxi - The Rhine is unique: it combines the qualities of every river. Like the Rhone, it is rapid ; broad, like the Loire ; encased, like the Meuse ; serpentine, like the Seine; limpid and green, like the Somme ; historical, like the Tiber; royal, like the Danube; mysterious, like the Nile; spangled with gold, like an American river ; and like a river of Asia, abounding with phantoms and fables.
Pàgina 88 - His bed room, also, is in a style of severe simplicity. There were several engravings fastened against the wall ; and in the anteroom a bust and medallion of the Empress Eugenie — a thing which I should not exactly have expected in a born king's palace ; but beauty is sacred, and kings cannot call it parvenu.
Pàgina 91 - They were all small, and chosen with regard to their artistical value. The next room contained statues, and vases covered with reliefs, in ivory. The most remarkable work was the fall of Lucifer and his angels, containing ninety-two figures in all, carved out of a single piece of ivory sixteen inches high ! It was the work of an Italian monk, and cost him many years of...
Pàgina 133 - Compassion follows, leading an aged beggar to the tomb of his benefactor, and a little child with its hands folded. On the lower step rests a mourning Genius beside a sleeping lion, and a bas-relief on the pyramid above represents an angel carrying Christina's image, surrounded with the emblem of eternity, to Heaven. A spirit of deep sorrow, which is touchingly portrayed in the countenance of the old man, pervades the whole group. While we looked at it, the organ breathed out a slow, mournful strain,...
Pàgina 96 - Our king in lieu of money, among other facts of grace, gave them a privilege to pay but one per cent., which continued until Queen Mary's reign, and she by advice of King Philip, her husband, as it was conceived, enhanced the one to twenty per cent. The Hans not only complained but clamored loudly for breach of their ancient privileges confirmed unto them, time out of mind, by thirteen successive kings of England, which they pretended to have purchased with their money. King Philip undertook to accommodate...
Pàgina 9 - Frauenlob" above it, and I instantly remembered the Tasso of Mayence, so calumniated during his life, so venerated after his death. When Henry Frauenlob died, which was in the year 1318, the females who had insulted him in life carried his coffin to the tomb, which procession is chiseled on the tombstone beneath.
Pàgina xxiv - Nonnenwerth, the white walls of the convent still gleaming through the trees, as they gleamed when the warrior's weary eyes looked upon them for the last time. I shall never forget the enthusiasm with which I saw this scene in the bright, warm sunlight, the rough crags softened in the haze which filled the atmosphere, and the wild mountains springing up in the midst of vineyards, and crowned with crumbling towers, haunted with the memories of a thousand years.
Pàgina 6 - Bingen is an exceedingly pretty place, having at once the somber look of an ancient town, and the cheering aspect of a new one. From the days of Consul Drusus to those of the Emperor Charlemagne, from Charlemagne to Archbishop Willigis, from Willigis to the merchant Montemagno, and from Montemagno to the visionary Holzhausen, the town gradually increased in the number of its houses, as the dew gathers drop by drop in the cup of a lily. Excuse this comparison; for, tho flowery, it has truth to back...
Pàgina 77 - The cathedral can boast of little antiquity. It is almost a building of yesterday; yet it is large, richly ornamented on the outside, especially on the west, between the towers — and is considered one of the noblest structures of the kind in Bavaria. The interior wants that decisive effect which simplicity produces. It is too much broken into parts, and covered with monuments of a very heterogeneous description. Near it I traced the cloisters of an old convent or monastery of some kind, now demolished,...