Journal of a Tour in Germany, Sweden, Russia, Poland, in 1813 and 1814, Volum 2J. Murray, 1819 |
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Journal of a Tour in Germany, Sweden, Russia, Poland, in 1813 and 1814, Volum 2 John Thomas James Visualització completa - 1819 |
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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 96 - ... the tsar George Heraclievitch voluntarily surrendered his kingdom to Paul the Emperor of Russia. In return for this, handsome appointments at the court of Petersburg were by stipulation to be provided, and in the year 1801, he, with his whole family, arrived at Moscow. But it was reserved for the Emperor Alexander to fulfil this contract, which was done as soon as the confused state of things at the death of the late emperor would allow, and Georgia is in consequence now placed under the administration...
Pàgina 83 - The mob now saluted and congratulated one another in turn, for the days of fasting were at an end. Tables, spread with provisions, in a short time made their appearance in the church ; the forbidden meats were tasted with eager appetite ; and a feast of gluttony, that annually proves fatal to some of the...
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 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 173 - ... 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 stucco, black, discoloured...
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 83 - Lord ; in a few minutes the insignia were seen again, on their return, floating above the heads of the mob, along the nave; and when the archbishop had regained the altar, he pronounced with a loud voice, Christos volseress, " Christ is
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...