Glimpses of Europe in 1851 and 1867-8Author, 1882 - 224 pages |
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Page 120 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Page 162 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 38 - The castled Crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine...
Page 93 - Though patriots flatter, still shall wisdom find An equal portion dealt to all mankind; As different good, by art or nature given, To different nations makes their blessings even.
Page 38 - And peasant girls, with deep blue eyes, And hands which offer early flowers, Walk smiling o'er this paradise; Above, the frequent feudal towers Through green leaves lift their walls of grey, And many a rock which steeply lours, And noble arch in proud decay, Look o'er this vale of vintage-bowers; But one thing want these banks of Rhine, — Thy gentle hand to clasp in mine!
Page 115 - It is not noon— the Sunbow's rays still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven, And roll the sheeted silver's waving column O'er the crag's headlong perpendicular, And fling its lines of foaming light along, And to and fro, like the pale courser's tail, The Giant steed, to be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse.
Page 45 - War, it displayed in its buildings all the splendour arising from flourishing commerce and the residence of the Court of the Electors Palatine of the Rhine. It has been five times bombarded, twice laid in ashes, and thrice taken by assault and delivered over to pillage. In 1622 (the fatal period of the Thirty Years...
Page 95 - Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, "This is my own— my native land!" Whose heart within him ne'er hath burned, As home his foot-steps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand; If such there breathes, go mark him well!
Page 55 - Don't buy an alpenstock with a chamois horn at the upper end, or some day it will slip through your hand and hurt you. The principal sight of Lucerne is the " monument to the memory of the Swiss Guards," who fell while defending the royal family of France in the first revolution.
Page 89 - ... that of Sherborne and Castleton, and held here his grandest council, as did William II. in 1096, and Henry I. in 1116. It was deserted by Henry III., as being deficient in water, and the see was removed to New Sarum (Salisbury) in 1219. Some houses remained in the reign of Henry VIII. It is said that here was a palace of the British and Saxon kings, and of the Roman emperors. The donjon mound is now, the principal object. The old city appears to have been built entirely on the artificial British...