Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book for travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through portions of Rhenish Prussia, Volume 301853 |
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Page xxiii
... excellent horses , and the portion of Limbourg on the banks of the Meuse , is fertile and carefully cultivated . The character of Brabant resembles that of Flanders with respect to its beautiful fields , gardens , and luxuriant trees ...
... excellent horses , and the portion of Limbourg on the banks of the Meuse , is fertile and carefully cultivated . The character of Brabant resembles that of Flanders with respect to its beautiful fields , gardens , and luxuriant trees ...
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... excellent pasture . The proprietors row them like a boat to land their cattle or take them up . The town is on the line of railway from Calais to Lille . Living is said to be cheap . It possesses two ecclesiastical buildings well worthy ...
... excellent pasture . The proprietors row them like a boat to land their cattle or take them up . The town is on the line of railway from Calais to Lille . Living is said to be cheap . It possesses two ecclesiastical buildings well worthy ...
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... excellent accommodation . A. Rosz- mann , proprietor . Du Comte d'Egmont ; d'Allemagne ; du Duc de Wellington ; de Courtrai . There is a good Buffet at the station , which is within the town . Cabs are always in attendance . Post Office ...
... excellent accommodation . A. Rosz- mann , proprietor . Du Comte d'Egmont ; d'Allemagne ; du Duc de Wellington ; de Courtrai . There is a good Buffet at the station , which is within the town . Cabs are always in attendance . Post Office ...
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... excellent keeping with the rest of the building , The choir which has two side aisles , is raised above the floor of the body of the church by a flight of steps : in front is the grand altar , enclosed by three bronze doors of elaborate ...
... excellent keeping with the rest of the building , The choir which has two side aisles , is raised above the floor of the body of the church by a flight of steps : in front is the grand altar , enclosed by three bronze doors of elaborate ...
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... excellent keeping with the rest of the buildi The choir which has two side aisles , is rai above the floor of the body of the church by flight of steps : in front is the grand altar , enclo by three bronze doors of elaborate workmansl ...
... excellent keeping with the rest of the buildi The choir which has two side aisles , is rai above the floor of the body of the church by flight of steps : in front is the grand altar , enclo by three bronze doors of elaborate workmansl ...
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Abbey altar ancient Antwerp architecture Baden Baths beautiful Belgian Belgium BRADSHAW'S bridge Bruges Brussels building built canal castle Cathedral celebrated centre century chapel Charleroi Château choir Church of St CLASS HOTEL Coblenz Cologne comfort contains Counts of Flanders crosses Dinant Duke Dutch Emperor English erected established excellent excursion Families feet high first-class Flanders formerly France French Garden German Ghent Gothic GRAND HOTEL Hall hill Holland inhabitants Liége Louvain magnificent Mannheim Mayence Meuse miles moderate charges monument Moselle mountains Museum Namur opposite Ostend paintings Palace passes Pension picturesque population Prince Promenade Proprietor Prussia rail Railway Station remarkable Rhine right bank river road rock Roman Rooms Rotterdam Route Royal Rubens ruins Saloons Scheldt side situated Spires splendid statue Steamers Strassburg streets style Table d'Hôte Theatre tion tower town traveller Trèves valley village West Flanders wine
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Page 83 - The castled crag of Drachenfels " \ Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine, Have strew'da scene, which I should see With double joy wert tkou with me.
Page 32 - Ere evening, to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low.
Page 79 - And there they stand, as stands a lofty mind, Worn, but unstooping to the baser crowd, All tenantless, save to the crannying wind, Or holding dark communion with the cloud.
Page xxiv - Rubens stands in the esteem of the world is alone a sufficient reason for some examination of his pretensions. His fame is extended over a great part of the Continent, without a rival: and it may be justly said that he has enriched his...
Page 71 - As it flows down from the distant ridges of the Alps, through fertile regions into the open sea, so it comes down from remote antiquity, associated in every age with momentous events in the history of the neighbouring nations.
Page xxiv - ... left, but by what some would think a more solid advantage, — the wealth arising from the concourse of strangers whom his works continually invite to Antwerp.
Page 189 - Kursaal, and Casino, nearest to the sea. It is patronised by the nobility and gentry, and frequently has the honour of receiving princely yisitors.