Letters of a TravellerD. Appleton, 1859 - 277 páginas |
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... dark heath of a purple tinge , and stretching out of sight . The Director was not at home , and we were accompanied over the village by one of the bookkeepers , who was ready to communicate what he knew , but who spoke French , the only ...
... dark heath of a purple tinge , and stretching out of sight . The Director was not at home , and we were accompanied over the village by one of the bookkeepers , who was ready to communicate what he knew , but who spoke French , the only ...
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... darker and apparently a richer soil , which lends the verdure of their sides a deeper tinge . Here , at Luchon , I see fields of maize and millet half - way up the mountain sides , and patches of buckwheat , now in bloom , whitening ...
... darker and apparently a richer soil , which lends the verdure of their sides a deeper tinge . Here , at Luchon , I see fields of maize and millet half - way up the mountain sides , and patches of buckwheat , now in bloom , whitening ...
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... dark pinnacles of rock flecked with fields of snow , from one of which a white cataract plunges , roaring , into the lake . Or , perhaps , they are going to the summit called the Pic de l'Anticade , from which you look down into the ...
... dark pinnacles of rock flecked with fields of snow , from one of which a white cataract plunges , roaring , into the lake . Or , perhaps , they are going to the summit called the Pic de l'Anticade , from which you look down into the ...
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... dark and jagged rocks to the Atlantic ocean — a breach in the mountain wall of the Pyrenees , through which the tides flow and sleep in this quiet basin . The passage through which they enter is overlooked by castles which have nothing ...
... dark and jagged rocks to the Atlantic ocean — a breach in the mountain wall of the Pyrenees , through which the tides flow and sleep in this quiet basin . The passage through which they enter is overlooked by castles which have nothing ...
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... dark rocks of Mount Ulia , to the southwest it beats against the steeps of Mount Frio , crowned with lighthouses , and beyond , in the same di- rection , a lofty promontory stretches , like a sentinel of that NOISES OF SAN SEBASTIAN ...
... dark rocks of Mount Ulia , to the southwest it beats against the steeps of Mount Frio , crowned with lighthouses , and beyond , in the same di- rection , a lofty promontory stretches , like a sentinel of that NOISES OF SAN SEBASTIAN ...
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Página 149 - Of the people of the country I ought to carry away a most favorable impression, if such an impression could be produced by unwearied endeavors, with apparently no motive but simple benevolence, to make our stay agreeable. The American minister, Mr. Dodge, is very attentive to the convenience of his countrymen, and a great favorite -with such of them as come to Madrid. He is on excellent terms also with the people of the country, and has done, what I think few of his predecessors have taken the trouble...
Página 257 - Men who would never have thought of buying a picture or a statue at home, are infected by the contagion of the place the moment they arrive. No talk of the money market here; no discussion of any public measure; no conversation respecting new enterprises, and the ebb and flow of trade; no price current, except of marble and canvas; all the talk is of art and artists. The rich man who, at home, is contented with mirrors and rosewood, is here initiated into a new set of ideas, gets a taste, and orders...
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Página 175 - The only narcotic in which the Spaniards indulge to any extent is tobacco, in favor of which I have nothing to say; yet it should be remembered, in extenuation, that they are tempted to this habit by the want of something else to do; that they husband their cigarritos by smoking with great deliberation, making a little tobacco go a great way, and that they dilute its narcotic fumes with those of the paper in which it is folded. With regard to the use of wine, I can confirm all that has been said...
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Between History and Romance: Travel Writing on Spain in the Early Nineteenth ... Gifra-Adroher, Pere Vista de fragmentos - 2000 |
Between History and Romance: Travel Writing on Spain in the Early Nineteenth ... Gifra-Adroher, Pere Vista previa limitada - 2000 |