Reminiscences of European TravelHurd and Houghton, 1868 - 316 pages |
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... scenes and experiences while his impressions are still fresh and vivid , can only become less graphic by the attempt to improve it . HARVARD UNIVERSITY , June 5 , 1868 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. OLD ENGLAND . First Impressions of iv PREFACE .
... scenes and experiences while his impressions are still fresh and vivid , can only become less graphic by the attempt to improve it . HARVARD UNIVERSITY , June 5 , 1868 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. OLD ENGLAND . First Impressions of iv PREFACE .
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... less convenient for their uses , than most of the legislative halls in our state capitols . 1 I use the word fresco in its common acceptation . It properly be- longs only to pictures in which the colors are laid on fresh plaster , into ...
... less convenient for their uses , than most of the legislative halls in our state capitols . 1 I use the word fresco in its common acceptation . It properly be- longs only to pictures in which the colors are laid on fresh plaster , into ...
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... 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 just fifteen minutes long , consisted only of ...
... 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 just fifteen minutes long , consisted only of ...
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... less than four thousand persons . The audience were breathlessly still , except at the close of the prayers and the exposition , and at pauses between the heads of the sermon , when there was a tumultuous explosion of suppressed ...
... less than four thousand persons . The audience were breathlessly still , except at the close of the prayers and the exposition , and at pauses between the heads of the sermon , when there was a tumultuous explosion of suppressed ...
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... less than instruction . But the preacher's manner was chill- ing . His voice is clear and strong ; but his deliv- ery is almost monotonous , not the monotony of indifference or dullness , but of suppressed feeling , - still less the ...
... less than instruction . But the preacher's manner was chill- ing . His voice is clear and strong ; but his deliv- ery is almost monotonous , not the monotony of indifference or dullness , but of suppressed feeling , - still less the ...
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Page 52 - 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, astonished, rends. Dim seen, through rising mists and ceaseless showers, The hoary cavern, wide surrounding, lowers; Still through the gap the struggling river toils, And still below, the horrid caldron boils.
Page 220 - Nativity, — the Adoration of the Magi, — the Presentation in the Temple, — the Crucifixion, — and the Last Judgment.
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 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 296 - His monument in red marble has a bust of him in relief, and is inscribed with his favorite motto, Esse potius quam haberi, " To be rather than to be esteemed.
Page 233 - ... however, with the sites of the houses of Cicero and Clodius, which vividly recalled the passage in one of Cicero's orations, in which he says to Clodius, " I will build my house higher, not that I may look down on you, but that I may intercept your view of the city which you have sought to ruin.
Page 23 - ... way ; interprets to them what would else be unintelligible. One cannot hear Spurgeon without being not only convinced of his sincerity, but impressed with the entire absence of self-reference, his complete identification with his work, and his burning zeal in the cause of his Divine Master. 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 persistent of my tormentors.
Page 12 - By a coincidence singular, if not designed (and it can hardly have been designed), it has as many doors as there are months, as many windows as there are weeks, and as many stairs in the ascent of the tower as there are days in the year.