The Youthful Wanderer: Or, An Account of a Tour Through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and the Rhine Switzerland, Italy, and Egypt, Adapted to the Wants of Young Americans Taking Their First Glimpses at the Old World

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A. S. Heffner, printer, 1876 - 272 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 255 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Pàgina 61 - STAY PASSENGER, WHY GOEST THOV BY SO FAST, READ, IF THOV CANST, WHOM ENVIOVS DEATH HATH PLAST WITHIN THIS MONVMENT...
Pàgina 169 - Abbey mason, that he found him one day standing with his arms folded and his looks fixed upon one of those knightly figures which support the canopy over the statue of Sir Francis Vere. As he approached, the artist laid his hand on his arm, pointed to the figure, and said,
Pàgina 61 - Olympvs habet. Stay, passenger, why goest thov by so fast ? Read, if thov canst, whom enviovs Death hath plast Within this monvment : SHAKSPEARE : with whome Qvick Natvre dide; whose name doth deck y tombe Far more than cost ; sieth all y' he hath writt Leaves living art bvt page to serve his witt. Obiit Ano. Doi. 1616. yEtatis 53. Die. 23. Ap.
Pàgina 140 - Bals masques at this theatre, for it is difficult to imagine a scene more curious and fantastic than that presented in the Salle of the Grand Opera at a Carnival Ball. On these nights the pit is boarded over and joins the stage ; the vast area of the whole theatre forming a ball-room of magnificent proportions, which, brilliantly lighted, and crowded with thousands of gay maskers attired in every variety of colour and costume, forms a sight not easily forgotten.
Pàgina 87 - Aged 29, universally Beloved and esteemed by the Army in which he served, and lamented even by his Foes. His gracious Sovereign, King George the Third, has caused this monument to be erected.
Pàgina 140 - On entering the vastsa//e at such a moment the effect is scarcely imaginable, the gorgeousness of the immense theatre, the glitter of the lights, the brilliancy and variety of the costumes, the enlivening strains of the music, the mirth of the crowd, and, above all, the untiring velocity with which...
Pàgina 82 - And here we cannot adduce a more fitting example of Mr. Cunningham's power of embodying the past by an assemblage of graphic particulars than the following: — ' Let the spectator picture to himself the appearance which this venerable Hall has presented on many occasions. Here were hung the banners taken from Charles I. at the battle of Naseby ; from Charles II. at the battle of Worcester ; at Preston and Dunbar ; and, somewhat later, those taken at the battle of Blenheim. Here, at the upper end...
Pàgina 117 - Jardin, is planted with rows of lime trees from end to end, and two flower-gardens, separated by a circular basin of water, with a fine jet d'eau. The garden was thus arranged in 1799 ; it contains bronze copies of the Diane a la Biche of the Louvre, and the Apollo Belvedere ; two modern statues in white marble, one of a young man about to bathe, by d'Espercieux ; the other of a boy struggling with a goat, by...
Pàgina 96 - is a citadel to defend or command the City ; a royal palace for assemblies or treaties ; a prison of state for the most dangerous offenders ; the only place of coinage for all England at this time ; the armoury for warlike provisions ; the treasury of the ornaments and jewels of the Crown; and general conserver of most of the records of the King's courts of justice at Westminster.

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