Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa: Russia, Tartary, and Turkey

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T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1817
 

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Pàgina 346 - And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Pàgina 70 - AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah : and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship...
Pàgina 55 - THERE is nothing more extraordinary in this country than the transition of the seasons. The people of Moscow have no spring: winter -vanishes, and summer is! This is not the work of a week, or a day, but of one instant; and the manner of it exceeds belief.
Pàgina 57 - Having heard accounts of its immense population, you wander through deserted streets. Passing suddenly towards the quarter where the shops are situated, you might walk upon the heads of thousands. The daily throng is there so immense, that, unable to force a passage through it, or assign any motive that might convene such a multitude, you ask the cause, and are told that it is always the same. Nor is the costume less va--rious than the aspect of the buildings; Greeks, Turks, Tartars, Cossacks, Chinese,...
Pàgina 71 - Drinking, dancing, and singing, continued through the night and day. But, in the midst of all these excesses, quarrels hardly ever took place. The wild, rude riot of a Russian populace is full of humanity. Few disputes are heard ; no blows are given ; no lives endangered, but by drinking.
Pàgina 67 - The walls, ceilings, and every part of this building, are covered with the pictures of saints and martyrs. In the moment of our arrival the doors were shut ; and on the outside appeared Plato, the archbishop, preceded by banners and torches, and followed by all his train of priests with crucifixes and censers, who...
Pàgina xxviii - Razumoffski was, by the emperor's order, broken into small pieces, while he stood by and directed the work. The horses had been found with it in the streets without their driver. It happened to be of a blue colour ; and the count's servants wore red liveries: upon which...
Pàgina 416 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand and on their left.
Pàgina 143 - The large bell near the cathedral is only used on important occasions, and yields the finest and most solemn tone I ever heard. When it sounds, a deep and hollow murmur vibrates all over Moscow, like the fullest and lowest tones of a vast organ, or the rolling of distant thunder.

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