Reminiscences of European TravelHurd and Houghton, 1868 - 316 pages |
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... dome of St. Paul's . There could not have been less than three or four thousand persons present . The preacher had come from Edinburgh , and was announced by placards all over the city for eight or ten days beforehand . His sermon was ...
... dome of St. Paul's . There could not have been less than three or four thousand persons present . The preacher had come from Edinburgh , and was announced by placards all over the city for eight or ten days beforehand . His sermon was ...
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... dome , which is seen at a very considerable distance , is surpassed in grandeur only by that of St. Peter's , being ... dome , capable of seating an audience of four thousand , is used for a people's service on Sunday evening , furnished ...
... dome , which is seen at a very considerable distance , is surpassed in grandeur only by that of St. Peter's , being ... dome , capable of seating an audience of four thousand , is used for a people's service on Sunday evening , furnished ...
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... dome , which has a larger span than any other dome in existence . In this room , on aisles which radiate from the centre , are seats for about five hundred readers , each seat being furnished with a desk and writing materials . Any ...
... dome , which has a larger span than any other dome in existence . In this room , on aisles which radiate from the centre , are seats for about five hundred readers , each seat being furnished with a desk and writing materials . Any ...
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... dome and pillar , frieze and cornice , in forms of beauty that grew under the patient toil of artists who built , and painted , and chiselled far better than they knew , and have left for the ages copies of thoughts and visions ...
... dome and pillar , frieze and cornice , in forms of beauty that grew under the patient toil of artists who built , and painted , and chiselled far better than they knew , and have left for the ages copies of thoughts and visions ...
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... dome of Mont Blanc was kindled with the first ray of the sun ; then it was caught by its companion domes a little lower ; then successively by lower and lower peaks and needles . And as each moun- tain caught the blaze , the light ...
... dome of Mont Blanc was kindled with the first ray of the sun ; then it was caught by its companion domes a little lower ; then successively by lower and lower peaks and needles . And as each moun- tain caught the blaze , the light ...
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Page 220 - Nativity, — the Adoration of the Magi, — the Presentation in the Temple, — the Crucifixion, — and the Last Judgment.
Page 51 - Fyers pours his mossy floods ; Till full he dashes on the rocky mounds, Where, through a shapeless breach, his stream resounds. As high in air the bursting torrents flow, As deep recoiling surges foam below, Prone down the rock the whitening sheet descends, And viewless echo's ear, astonish'd, rends.
Page 43 - CHIEF OBJECTS OF INTEREST. We shall now mention very briefly the chief things that must be seen in London, referring you to the local " Guides " for fuller information. Westminster Abbey is a magnificent Gothic church, and even more interesting as " the only national place of sepulture in the world, — the only spot whose monuments epitomize a people's history.
Page 52 - Where, thro' a shapeless breach, his stream resounds; As high in air the bursting torrents flow, As deep recoiling surges foam below, Prone down the rock the whitening sheet descends, And viewless Echo's ear, astonished, rends. Dim-seen, thro' rising mists, and ceaseless show'rs, The hoary cavern, wide-surrounding, low'rs. Still, thro...
Page 163 - Expiatoire, built on the spot where the remains of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette were deposited after their • decapitation, and preserved till the restoration of the Bourbons.
Page 222 - Grecian temple, is perhaps forty feet by twenty, of white marble ; and its entire exterior surface is so covered with statuary and figures in alto-relievo, that hardly an inch of naked wall can be seen, so that it looks, not like a building, but like a solid mass of white-robed saints and angels.
Page 21 - ... sermon was strongly Calvinistic, and I could not entirely sympathize with its doctrinal statements; but it was real preaching, and the preaching of the church dignitaries seemed child's play as compared with it. Spurgeon has a physiognomy full of strength and beauty. The ordinary engravings of him are like him, yet unlike. They give him a somewhat coarse, sensuous look, which he may perhaps have, when his features are in repose; but in preaching his countenance is radiant, spiritual, and wonderfully...
Page 23 - There can be no doubt that he is now exerting a more extended influence than any other preacher in the kingdom, and is second to none among the moral forces in the great metropolis.
Page 59 - 0, did ye ne'er hear of Kate Kearney ? She lives by the Lake of Killarney," and a granddaughter of hers was among the most eloquent and persister.t of my tormentors.