Seeing Europe with Famous Authors: VolumCosimo, Inc., 1 d’abr. 2006 - 212 pàgines Emerging from his hotel for a walk in the street, the tourist, even tho his visit be not the first, will note the ancient look of things. Here are buildings that have survived for two, or even five, hundred years, and yet they are still found fit for the purposes for which they are put.... Leaving a great thoroughfare for a side street, a stone's throw may bring one to a friend's office, in one of those little squares so common in the older parts of London. How ancient all things here may seem to him, the very street doorway an antiquity, and so the fireplace within, the hinges and handles of the door. -from the Introduction From the era from a trip to the Continent was rarer but more deeply appreciated comes an enchanting literary travelogue assembled from the hearts and minds of some of the greatest wordsmiths in the English language. A Grand Tour in 10 volumes, these delightful volumes, first published in 1914, gather little-seen essays from famous erudite explorers in compact collections that will inspire those who've never been abroad to make the journey, and move those who have to pack their bags again. Volume I explores Great Britain and Ireland, viewed through the eyes and prose of a panoply of extraordinary writers: Nathaniel Hawthorne enthuses on the Houses of Parliament, Harriet Beecher Stowe describes a visit to Windsor Castle, Washington Irving makes a trip to Stratford-on-Avon, and much more by such notable voices as Augustus J.C. Hare, Sir Walter Scott, and others. Beautifully illustrated with charming photographs, it is a work to treasure... and to take along on your next trip. OF INTEREST TO: armchair travelers, readers of classic literature American journalist and historian FRANCIS WHITING HALSEY (1851-1919) was literary editor of The New York Times from 1892 through 1896. He wrote and lectured extensively on history, and also edited the two-volume Great Epochs in American History Described by Famous Writers, From Columbus to Roosevelt (1912). |
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THE TEMPLE CHURCHBy Augustus J C | 32 |
DICKENSS LIMEHOUSE HOLEBy J R | 42 |
THE TOWERBy W Hepworth Dixon | 53 |
ST JAMESS PALACEBy Augustus J C Hare | 59 |
WELLSBy James M Hoppin | 102 |
GLASTONBURYBy H Claiborne Dixon | 108 |
LIVING IN GREAT HOUSESBy Richard Grant | 114 |
BLENHEIMBy the Duke of Marlborough | 122 |
KENILWORTHBy Sir Walter Scott | 130 |
CHATSWORTH AND HADDON HALLBy Elihu | 143 |
HOLLAND HOUSEBy William Howitt | 149 |
PENSHURSTBy William Howitt | 158 |
LITERARY SHRINES OF LONDONBy William | 65 |
IICATHEDRALS AND ABBEYS | 71 |
OLD YORKBy William Winter | 77 |
ELYBy James M Hoppin | 86 |
EXETERBy Anna Bowman Dodd | 92 |
NEWSTEAD ABBEYBy Nathaniel Hawthorne | 171 |
HUCKNALLTORKARD CHURCH Byrons Grave | 178 |
DR JOHNSONS BIRTHPLACEBy Nathaniel | 184 |
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Pàgina 12 - What long-drawn cadences ! What solemn sweeping concords ! It grows more and more dense and powerful ; it fills the vast pile and seems to jar the very walls — the ear is stunned — the senses are overwhelmed. And now it is winding up in full jubilee — it is rising from the earth to heaven ; the very soul seems rapt away and floated upwards on this swelling tide of harmony!
Pàgina 166 - Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here ; Blessed be he that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.
Pàgina 12 - And now they rise in triumph and acclamation, heaving higher and higher their accordant notes, and piling sound on sound. And now they pause, and the soft voices of the choir break out into sweet gushes of melody ; they soar aloft, and warble along the roof, and seem to play about these lofty vaults like the pure airs 5 heaven.
Pàgina 31 - With houses looking on, on every side, save where a reeking little tunnel of a court gives access to the iron gate — with every villainy of life in action close on death, and every poisonous element of death in action close on life — here, they lower our dear brother down a foot or two : here, sow him in corruption, to be raised in corruption: an avenging ghost at many a sick bedside : a shameful testimony to future ages, how civilisation and barbarism walked this boastful island together.
Pàgina 8 - ON one of those sober and rather melancholy days in the latter part of autumn when the shadows of morning and evening almost mingle together, and throw a gloom over the decline of the year, I passed several hours in rambling about Westminster Abbey.
Pàgina 15 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Pàgina 132 - We cannot but add, that of this lordly palace, where princes feasted and heroes fought, now in the bloody earnest of storm and siege, and now in the games of chivalry, where beauty dealt the prize which valour won, all is now desolate.
Pàgina 46 - Externally, it was a narrow lopsided wooden jumble of corpulent windows heaped one upon another as you might heap as many toppling oranges, with a crazy wooden verandah impending over the water ; indeed the whole house, inclusive of the complaining flag-staff on the roof, impended over the water...