Journal of a Tour to Moscow, in the Summer of 1836Simpkin, Marshall, 1836 - 238 sivua |
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Sivu 24 - God! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains; that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts.
Sivu 102 - So than apace I jourued forth among, And as he said, so fond I there truly : For I beheld the toures high and strong, And high pinacles, large of hight and long, With plate of gold bespred on every side, And precious stones, the stone werke for to hide. No saphire in Inde, no...
Sivu 102 - Where is that place" (quod I) " my fellow hend?" " At Citheron, sir," said he, " without dout, The king of loue, and all his noble rout, " Dwelleth within a castle rially." So than apace I journed forth among, And as he said, so fond I there truly : For I beheld the toures high and strong, And high pinacles, large of hight and long, With plate of gold bespred on eucry side, And precious stones, the stone werke for to hide.
Sivu 139 - September, our corps left the village, where it had encamped, at an early hour, and marched to Moscow. As we approached the city, we saw that it had no walls, and that a simple parapet of earth was the only work which constituted the outer enclosure. Nothing indicated that the town was inhabited ; and the road by which we arrived was so deserted, that we saw neither Russian nor even French soldiers. No cry, no noise was heard, in the midst of this awful solitude.
Sivu 26 - Live you, or are you aught That man may question ? " Macbeth. AH ! why does man, whom God has sent As the Creation's ornament, Who stands amid his works...
Sivu 128 - The communicants receive the elements in both kinds standing, the bread being sopped in the cup. A little warm water is mixed with the wine, probably in reference to the blood and water which flowed from the Saviour's side. Confession always precedes communion.
Sivu 116 - The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo, such magnificence Equall'd in all their glories...
Sivu 144 - ... the other from excess of misery. The fire, which continued its ravages, had soon reached the finest parts of the town: All those palaces which we had admired for the elegance of their architecture, and the taste of their furniture, were buried in the flames ; their magnificent fronts, ornamented with bas-reliefs and statues, losing their supports...
Sivu 110 - Russia, ordered that for the Cathedral of the pure and glorious Assumption of the Virgin, a bell of copper should be cast, of the weight of 8000 pouds.
Sivu 214 - We are too apt to attribute our troubles to secondary causes alone, losing sight of him without whom not even a sparrow falleth to the ground.