Impressions of a Wanderer in Italy, Switzerland, France, and SpainH. Colburn, 1850 - Всего страниц: 408 |
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Стр. 262 - For several days in spring the climate may no doubt be delicious, although, however, always too warm about mid-day, when suddenly the mistral, of evil celebrity, begins to blow. It is difficult to give an adequate idea of the change, or of the injurious effects of the climate under the influence of this scourge. The same sun shines in the same bright blue sky, but the temperature is glacial. The sun is there only to glare and dazzle, and seems to have no more power in producing warmth than a rushlight...
Стр. 182 - ... case. The complexion was healthy and the eye bright. She had sufficient intellect to go and come as she was bid ; and she manifested the strongest affection towards the Doctor. In one corner of the large room was a sort of climbing apparatus for exercising and strengthening the limbs of the children. On the walls were a variety of large prints and representations of various objects, calculated to engage the attention and exercise the nascent powers of discrimination. In one part was a table covered...
Стр. 185 - Guggenbiihl stated he had found most serviceable in assisting the process of quickening the torpid vital energies. As we completed our round, the bell rang at midday for dinner; and the Doctor pressed me kindly to dine with him and his family, and his patients. I would have done so had I not been expected back by friends at Interlaken. As it was, I left this admirable man, — who, in the prime and springtide of his life, has devoted his entire existence to the obscure and cheerless task of passing...
Стр. 206 - Fu nel popolo ed é certa opinione, Che il buon messer Giovanni da Certaldo Fosse un celebre mago, uno stregone, Che ora si trova in un paese caldo. Si, mago fé quelto scrittor gentile La magia del racconto e dello stile. Delle Muse cosi fra il vago coro, E delle Grazie fra 1...
Стр. 183 - ... directing, correcting, instructing, and above all conciliating, the affection of his unengaging pupils by the unvarying gentleness and kindness of his manner. He received me with the greatest urbanity, — was evidently pleased at a stranger's visit to the scene of his obscure but most valuable labours, — and readily entered into conversation on the subject of them.
Стр. 203 - A hundred volumes of travels and a thousand biographical and antiquarian dissertations would not place so vividly or graphically before the reader, with their appropriate framing of local scenery, the Tuscan peasant and the Tuscan priest as they were, and with small changes are still, and the Tuscan man of letters as he was in the Middle Ages. It is impossible to doubt that Landor had made himself thoroughly acquainted with the locality. But he has erred, or more probably has chosen to modify the...
Стр. 48 - It is rarely, I should think, that the past and the present — that two widely separated centuries I may say — are so strangely placed face to face. Among the various government notices which adorn the walls of the town — for placarding is the recognised means of communication between the government and the citizens — appears a huge sheet purporting to emanate from the chapter of the Basilic of St. Peter. Crowded between the promise of...
Стр. 184 - But the Doctor assured me that his experience proved to him that the explanation — even somewhat comparatively abstruse — of what meets the eye, constitutes the food most easily taken by the newly-awakened mental powers. The lad in...
Стр. 288 - Hdtel de 1'Europe, was poor Charles Albert, passing by Toulouse, in his sad journey from the fatal field of Novara, to his retirement in Portugal. He arrived in an ordinary carriage, with a valet and courier only, and nobody guessed who he was. He was put into the first bed-room that happened to be vacant, and might have quitted Toulouse in as strict incognito as he entered it, had not my friend the chambermaid...
Стр. 289 - ... which induced the King of Sardinia to travel with so strange a piece of furniture, all that I can do toward elucidating the matter, is to remind the reader that warming-pans are not generally met with in Italian inns, their functions being performed by placing between the sheets a simple apparatus of a pot of burning charcoal, suspended in a little wooden frame, an operation which the Italian chambermaids call, by a metaphor more expressive than reverent, 'putting a priest in the bed.