By-ways of Europe, 第 2 巻S. Low, Son, & Marston, 1869 |
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132 ページ - It is quite as possible, here, that Goethe deduced the character of his ancestors from his own, as that he sought an explanation of the latter in their peculiarities. The...
172 ページ - The brightness of the day increased the illusion, and made the incredible beauty of the cavern all the more startling, because devoid of gloom and mystery. It was an idyl of the sea, born of the god-lore of Greece.
102 ページ - Kyff hauser was meant for an excursion into dream-land. When the Summer, departing, stands with reluctant feet; when the Autumn looks upon the land, yet has not taken up her fixed abode ; when the freshness of Spring is revived in every cloudless morning, and the afternoons melt slowly into smoke and golden vapor, — then comes, for a short space, the season of illusion, of credulity, of winsome superstition.
114 ページ - Fifteen years ago, at the foot of the Taurus, in Asia Minor, I had stood on the banks of the river in which he was drowned ; and in Tyre I saw the chapel in which, according to such history as we possess, his body was laid. Then, why should he, of all the German emperors, be chosen as the symbol of a political resurrection ? He defied the power of the popes, and was placed under the ban of the Church ; he "gained some battles and lost others ; he commenced a crusade, but never returned from it ;...
281 ページ - Romans," which he had presented to her. I shall value it as much for the giver's, as for the writer's, sake. Our friends in Florence received the news of our adventure with astonishment and mortification ; but, up to the time of this present writing, the matter remains a mystery. One conjecture was...
306 ページ - War. -After inspecting the house, we issued upon the ploasaunce — a high bosky space resting on the outer wall of the castle, and looking down upon the old moat, still partially full of water. It was a labyrinth of shady paths, of arbors, with leaf-enframed windows opening towards the mountains, and of open, sunny spaces rich with flowers. The baroness called my attention to two splendid magnolia-trees, and a clump of the large Japanese polygonum.
199 ページ - Italian is like a tortoise; he shuts up his shell, and crow-bars can't open him. I have not the least doubt that Giovanni believed, in his dull way, in the temporal power of the Pope and the restoration of the Bourbons. There were no more of the great volcanic fissures to be crossed. The road, made slippery by the rain, descended so rapidly that I was forced to walk during the remainder of the day's journey. It was a country of vines, less picturesque than I had already passed ; but the sea and southwestern...
184 ページ - ... flesh-pots of Capri. In spite of Murray, artists are not stoics, and where they go the fare is wont to be good. The English guide says, very complacently : " Such or such an hotel is third-rate, patronized by artists ! " or, " The accommodations are poor ; but artists may find them sufficient /" — as if " artists " had no finer habits of palate or nerves ! When I contrasted Pagano's table in Capri with that of the nobile locanda of Ischia, I regretted that artists had not been staying at the...
254 ページ - That is my place," said the old Englishman, " and I shall be happy to see you there." " I shall certainly come, if we have time enough after visiting Caprera," I replied. The Englishman, an entire stranger, was very kind in his offers of service ; the Garibaldian was so pompous and arrogant in his manner, that I soon perceived that no assistance could be expected from him. Nevertheless, chance threw us into the same boat, on landing in the little harbor. I had ascertained that there was a hotel,...
225 ページ - Spanish hat and feather, and a sceptre in his right hand, and coolly announced to the people that he had come to be their king, is so fantastic as to be scarcely credible ; but we cannot dwell upon it. His supplies of money and munitions of war, and still more his magnificent promises, beguiled those sturdy republicans into accepting the cheat of a crown. The fellow was not without ability, and but for a silly vanity, which led him to ape the state and show of other European courts, might have kept...